Use the subscription databases available from the library's Web site to locate literary criticism articles and author biographies. The following are the databases that will be most relevant:
Full text articles from 1,000 reference titles such as subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also includes over 1,100 short reference videos and over 450,000 high-resolution art images, photographs and maps.
Over 1.1 million full text articles from over 450 journals covering 130,000 authors, including those of children's and young adult literature.
Searches four databases:
Book Review Index
Literature Resource Center
LitFinder
Something About the Author
Full text of over 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources including complete runs of over 2,600 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also includes over 60,000 DRM-free ebooks and over 2 million primary sources. Supports text mining/analysis and digital humanities research by providing datasets for journals, books, research reports, and pamphlets in the digital library.
To use the AI Research Tool, you must create a personal JSTOR account with your ferris.edu email address. They do not sell your data nor do they use it to train the LLM. Conversation transcripts can be downloaded, but you must do so within three hours. (They recommend downloading before leaving the item page.) The tool can also be cited as can its individual responses.
Full text articles and chapters from over 800 journals and over 100,000 books in the humanities and social sciences.
Digitized pages of over 1,500 American special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, and children’s and women’s magazines published between 1740 and 1940.