Library & Cultural Services: Creative Writing: Journal Articles

Journal Articles: Introduction

Academic journal articles are shorter than books and they normally focus on very specific topics. You can use the databases below to find articles published in academic journals. Some of the databases are full-text, but others only include citations, so you'll need to check those in the library catalogue to find out if we have access to the relevant journal.

Journal Articles: Literary and Creative Writing Theory

The resources below can help you to find journal articles and other sources on literature and creative writing theory.

ProQuest One Literature (includes Literature Online)
A fully searchable library of English and American literature containing over 350,000 works of poetry, prose and drama written between 600 A.D. and the present day. It also includes secondary material, such as biographies of major writers and the full text of over 330 literature journals.
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JSTOR
JSTOR provides a full-text archive of selected journals, many of which were published as far back as the 19th century. The Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collections I-XIII; XV, Life Sciences Collection, and 19th Century British Pamphlets; as well as the current content of 27 journals.
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MLA international bibliography
MLA International Bibliography indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings, and other materials. The database includes all records indexed from 1963 to the present.
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Project Muse
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world, hosting more than 800 journals and over 100,000 books from some 400 leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers.
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Journal Articles: Topic Research

Your creative writing will often require you to do background research into your chosen topic. The resources in this section - all of which are multi-disciplinary - can help you to find journal articles and other material on your topic. You may also wish to have a look at the Library's other subject guides to identify discipline-specific resources which could help you with your research.

SCOPUS
A comprehensive, multidisciplinary, trusted abstract and citation database. Quickly find relevant and authoritative research, identify experts and gain access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools covering 330 disciplines and content from more than 7,000 publishers.
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Web of Science
Three multidisciplinary databases: Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 - present), Social Sciences Citation index (1898 - present), and Science Citation Index (1970 - present). They index the core journals with details of articles, some with abstracts, but do not contain the full text of articles
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JSTOR
JSTOR provides a full-text archive of selected journals, many of which were published as far back as the 19th century. The Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collections I-XIII; XV, Life Sciences Collection, and 19th Century British Pamphlets; as well as the current content of 27 journals.
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Google Scholar