GATOR Library: English: Basic Research

Start Here For Basic Research

Starting Basic Research
Use this guide to help walk you through the research process.

Credo Academic Core This link opens in a new window
Literati Academic is a library teaching tool and online research platform that provides top quality reference sources paired with point-of-need instruction.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to scholarly journals in arts and sciences, history, language and literature, economics, and many other disciplines.
GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Center Library) This link opens in a new window
Delivers more than 12,000 eBooks from over 100 industry-leading publishers for every discipline and a unique research experience with.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and movements.
Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
This robust full-text database provides the most relevant information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, teachers and librarians a complete foundation of literary reference works to meet
Scribner Writers Series This link opens in a new window
Providing students, teachers, and other researchers access to more than 2,000 original, comprehensive, scholar-signed essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 important authors from around the world and from all time periods.