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MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco) 1926 - present The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA) is updated ten times per year. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and indexes critical materials on liter... Access Database MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco)

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Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature: ABELL 1920 - present ABELL has long been regarded as an essential bibliography of English language and literature in English. Issued in printed volumes since 1921, it is the British equivalent of the MLA Bibliography, ... Access Database Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature: ABELL
Bloomsbury Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary collection on medieval studies combines primary sources and interdisciplinary scholarship from a global perspective. Contents include the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages, d... Access Database Bloomsbury Medieval Studies
Cambridge Companions Online This Collection offers more than 450 of the Cambridge Companions for searching and browsing. These are detailed guides to authors, composers, philosophers, genres, various literatures and other fie... Access Database Cambridge Companions Online
Drama Online: Aurora Metro Books With over 125 drama plays in print, including works from Robin Soans, Manjula Padmanabhan, and Germaine Greer, Aurora Metro Books has built a wide-ranging and highly contemporary list of new drama,... Access Database Drama Online: Aurora Metro Books
Drama Online: BBC Drama Films and Documentaries Film adaptions of core curriculum plays from Sophocles, Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Isben, and Oscar Wilde alongside modern classics such as Copenhagen by playwright Michael Frayn. Access Database Drama Online: BBC Drama Films and Documentaries
Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice Collection of over 370 academic ebooks from Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints, offering critical, contextual and pedagogic content from leading voices in theatre, performance and Sha... Access Database Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice
Drama Online: L.A. Theatre Works Collection of 400 professionally-recorded audio plays from the L.A. Theatre Works, performed by world-class actors. The collection includes iconic modern literary works, Pulitzer prize-winning titl... Access Database Drama Online: L.A. Theatre Works
Drama Online: Nick Hern Books Modern Plays Over 590 modern plays from specialist theatre publisher Nick Hern Books featuring pre-eminent playwrights from the UK and Ireland, including Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, and Caryl Churchill. Access Database Drama Online: Nick Hern Books Modern Plays
Drama Online: Playwrights Canada Press Over 175 plays from established and emerging Canadian playwrights including Daniel Maclvor, Hannah Mosovitch, and Colleen Murphy. Access Database Drama Online: Playwrights Canada Press
Drama Online: The National Theatre Collection Video collection of National Theatre Live broadcasts of performances and other recordings from the NT Archive. The collection includes comedies, 20th century classic and modern plays, Shakespeare p... Access Database Drama Online: The National Theatre Collection
Drama Online: the RSC Live Collection This collection of films from live productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) theatre performed from 2013 to 2019, with additional performances being added as they are filmed. Films are acc... Access Database Drama Online: the RSC Live Collection
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism Online, The Access Database Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism Online, The
JSTOR Dates Vary JSTOR is a portal to academic journal article, ebooks and primary sources. Particular focus is in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological scien... Access Database JSTOR
Literary Reference Center Plus This is a broad reference resource for literature, authors, literary criticism, and literary works across disciplines and timeframes. It contains plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews, artic... Access Database Literary Reference Center Plus
Literature Criticism Online Database features modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres including materials from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. This ... Access Database Literature Criticism Online
Literature Resource Center Dates vary Literature Resource Center includes information on a large number of authors and literary works taken from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, T... Access Database Literature Resource Center
Lives of Literature on JSTOR Lives of Literature is a collection of academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements. Access Database Lives of Literature on JSTOR
MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco) 1926 - present The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA) is updated ten times per year. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and indexes critical materials on liter... Access Database MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco)
Oxford Handbooks Online Current Oxford Handbooks Online provides access to the full text of more than 300 ebook titles published as part of the Oxford Handbooks series, plus specially commissioned keywords and abstracts. They are... Access Database Oxford Handbooks Online
Project Muse Project Muse provides full text access to hundreds of scholarly journals and thousands of ebooks in the humanities and social science from various publishers. Disciplines covered include art, anthr... Access Database Project Muse
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2019 1902 - 2019 Full text archive of the complete Times Literary Supplement, containing every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902 - 2019. Reviews of books in many disciplines, theatre, musical perfor... Access Database Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2019

African American Literature Databases

African American Poetry 1760 - 1900 The African American Poetry collection includes the full text of nearly 3,000 poems (including, elegies, odes, ditties, hymns, and sonnets) of more than 50 African American poets of the eighteenth ... Access Database African American Poetry
African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922 1883 - 1922 Collection of printed works providing insight into African-American culture and life from the beginning of Jim Crow to World War I and beyond. Capturing voices of, by, for, and about African Americ... Access Database African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922
African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle, 1865-1883 1865 - 1883 Searchable archive of documents covering the lives of African Americans in the years following the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow. The collection covers subjects such as the development of ... Access Database African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle, 1865-1883
Black Authors, 1556-1922 1556 - 1922 Collection of works by authors of African or African-American descent from 1556 to 1922, as compiled by the curators of the Afro-Americana Imprints collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia... Access Database Black Authors, 1556-1922
Black Drama 1850 - present Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other Africa... Access Database Black Drama
Black Studies Center 1827 - present This is a core collection of primary and secondary sources that record and illuminate the Black experience, from ancient Africa through modern times with detailed coverage in history, literature, p... Access Database Black Studies Center

British Literature Databases

19th Century UK Periodicals Parts I and II 19th Century 19th Century UK Periodicals provides full-text, fully searchable access to hundreds of magazines and journals with full color, high quality digital facsimiles of all articles. This is an invaluable... Access Database 19th Century UK Periodicals Parts I and II
At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 1837 - 1901 This searchable database lists information about Victorian (nineteenth century British) fiction, including serialization. You can also browse a list of authors, titles, publishers, years, genres (n... Access Database At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901
BBC Shakespeare plays (Ambrose) Provides streaming access to the 37 dramatic works of William Shakespeare from the BBC. (Not updated) Access Database BBC Shakespeare plays (Ambrose)
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1950 1500 - 1950 This database is a collection of the diaries and correspondence of over 500 British and Irish women, and encompasses approximately 100,000 pages of writing. Most of the material is published, but s... Access Database British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1950
British Periodicals (1680s to the 1930s) 1680s - 1930s This database is searchable full text resource and contains approximately 500 journals from the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. Topics covered include ... Access Database British Periodicals (1680s to the 1930s)
Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson 1973 - Present The Online Edition presents a fully searchable version of the Print Edition, including all the original introductions, collations, and commentary, but it complements, develops, and vastly extends t... Access Database Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson
Dictionary of Old English: A to I Online Current The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language. It complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period 1100... Access Database Dictionary of Old English: A to I Online
Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice Collection of over 370 academic ebooks from Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints, offering critical, contextual and pedagogic content from leading voices in theatre, performance and Sha... Access Database Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice
Drama Online: L.A. Theatre Works Collection of 400 professionally-recorded audio plays from the L.A. Theatre Works, performed by world-class actors. The collection includes iconic modern literary works, Pulitzer prize-winning titl... Access Database Drama Online: L.A. Theatre Works
Drama Online: Nick Hern Books Modern Plays Over 590 modern plays from specialist theatre publisher Nick Hern Books featuring pre-eminent playwrights from the UK and Ireland, including Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, and Caryl Churchill. Access Database Drama Online: Nick Hern Books Modern Plays
Drama Online: the RSC Live Collection This collection of films from live productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) theatre performed from 2013 to 2019, with additional performances being added as they are filmed. Films are acc... Access Database Drama Online: the RSC Live Collection
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare This database includes the complete text of 11 major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66. It also includes 24 separate contemporary printings o... Access Database Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780) 1700 - 1780 A collection of 18th-century fictional prose, including 96 works by writers from the British Isles; single editions of works both well-known and rare, containing complete text and original images. ... Access Database Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780)
English Drama 13th century - early 20th century English Drama contains more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late 13th century to the early 20th century. It includes dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, Restor... Access Database English Drama
Folger Digital Texts (Shakespeare) High-quality, downloadable digital texts of Shakespeare's plays, based on source texts taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions (using the same page numbers and layouts as in the Folger p... Access Database Folger Digital Texts (Shakespeare)
Humanities Index 1962 - present Formerly known as British Humanities Index (BHI), this database indexes and abstracts approximately 400 internationally recognized humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and o... Access Database Humanities Index
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 1842 - 2003 Digital access to the entire run of the Illustrated London News from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full color and every articl... Access Database Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera 1700s - 1900s Consisting of rare archival materials that document everyday life in eighteenth- to twentieth-century Britain with full color, high-resolution images, the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemer... Access Database John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera
London Low Life 19th Century Taking as its subject Victorian London, the content ranges from salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thor... Access Database London Low Life
Mass Observation Online 1937 to 1967 Source Library: Special Collections, University of Sussex. Mass Observation Online makes available original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the British Mass Observation or... Access Database Mass Observation Online
Middle English Compendium 1100 - 1500 The Middle English Compendium offers easy access to and interconnectivity among three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary (MED), a Hype... Access Database Middle English Compendium
Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1782 - 1903 Nineteenth-Century Fiction collects 250 British and Irish novels by 102 authors from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels o... Access Database Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Shakespeare Survey Online 1948 - present Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best source of international Shakespearean scholarship and criticism in English. Each vol... Access Database Shakespeare Survey Online
Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance 1997 - 2016 This is a resource for the study of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre as reconstructed by Sam Wanamaker. The database documents over 200 productions from 1997-2016 including architectural plans, costume ... Access Database Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance
State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe (1509-1782) 1509 - 1782 State Papers Online, 1509-1714 is a collection of English government documents originating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the King or Queen acted as Prime Minister as well as Mon... Access Database State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe (1509-1782)
Victorian Database Online 1945 - present The Victorian Database Online lists books, dissertations, and articles from more than 500 journals on the "long" Victorian age, 1830-1914. It is the online equivalent of the Annual Bibliography of ... Access Database Victorian Database Online
Victorian Web 19th Century The Victorian Web concentrates on Great Britain in the age of Victoria (1837-1901) and is a multidisciplinary resource for Victorian studies and culture. Included are primary and secondary texts (i... Access Database Victorian Web
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 1824 - 1900 The Wellesley Index identifies the authors of articles within major Victorian periodicals and provides a bibliography for each contributor. (The vast majority of articles written for Victorian peri... Access Database Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online 1974 - 2000 A comprehensive bibliography, international in scope, with coverage extending to more than 92 languages, which will, when complete, provide annotated entries for all important books, articles, book... Access Database World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

Poetry Databases

American Poetry Colonial Period - Early 20th Century The American Poetry database features the works of more than 200 American poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works of the most influential Ameri... Access Database American Poetry
American Verse Project The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) has assembled an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early ... Access Database American Verse Project
Emily Dickinson Archive Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscr... Access Database Emily Dickinson Archive
English Poetry 8th century to the early 20th century English Poetry, Second Edition contains over 183,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early... Access Database English Poetry
Lyrikline 1999-to date (updates vary) lyrikline is an international website for experiencing the diversity of contemporary poetry. Here you can listen to the melodies, sounds, and rhythms of international poetry, recited by the authors... Access Database Lyrikline
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Current This Encyclopedia assesses 106 national poetries, with coverage of every significant poetry tradition in the world. Updated for the times, gone are such entries as Negro poetry American; Afro-Ameri... Access Database New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
PennSound Contemporary 20th and 21st century PennSound is a Web-based archive and distribution site of more than 1,500 digital recordings of poets and others reading and discussing poetry. There are interviews with poets and writers also. It ... Access Database PennSound
Walt Whitman Archive The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work easily and conveniently accessible. It contains multiple U.S. and foreign editions of ... Access Database Walt Whitman Archive

Women's Literature Databases

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1950 1500 - 1950 This database is a collection of the diaries and correspondence of over 500 British and Irish women, and encompasses approximately 100,000 pages of writing. Most of the material is published, but s... Access Database British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1950
Cairns Collection of American Women Writers to 1930: Author List US Independence to 1940 This is a searchable list of names, variant names, and pseudonyms used by American women writers whose works are held in the William B. Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, a non-circulatin... Access Database Cairns Collection of American Women Writers to 1930: Author List
Defining Gender 1450 - 1910 Defining Gender contains some 50,000 images of original documents from five centuries of advice literature and related material, from diaries, advice and conduct books, as well as articles from med... Access Database Defining Gender
Emily Dickinson's Correspondences 1850s - 1886 Unpublished in book form during her lifetime, the poems of Emily Dickinson were nonetheless shared with those she trusted mostthrough her letters. This XML-based archive brings together seventy-fou... Access Database Emily Dickinson's Correspondences
Everyday Life and Women in America c.1800-1920 circa 1800 - 1920 Everyday Life is a digital collection comprising thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th ... Access Database Everyday Life and Women in America c.1800-1920
Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs 1543 - 1945 The Gerritsen Collection contains the full text of over 4,700 publications from around the world documenting the condition of women, the evolution of feminist consciousness, and women's rights. The... Access Database Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
Godey's Lady's Book, Parts I - IX (1830-1898) 1830-1898 Godey's Lady's Book, Parts I - IX (1830-1898) provides electronic access to issues of the lady’s fashion magazine from 1830-1989. Early issues of Goody’s Lady’s Book included fashion description an... Access Database Godey's Lady's Book, Parts I - IX (1830-1898)
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 Colonial Times - 1950 A collection of published and unpublished women's diaries and correspondence, drawn from more than 1,000 1,300 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conferenc... Access Database North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Queen Victoria's Journals 1832-1840 Complete online collection of the entire sequence of Queen Victoria's diaries, with full transcriptions and keyword searching of the journal entries covering the period from Queen Victoria's first ... Access Database Queen Victoria's Journals
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period This release includes some 60 volumes from 47 poets. The critical and biographical essays for some poets will be added in a future release, as will selected criticism from printed works. In additio... Access Database Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Women Writers Online (1400-1850) 1400 - 1850 The Women Writers Project is a long-term research project from Brown University, which is transferring to Northeastern. It is devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. W... Access Database Women Writers Online (1400-1850)

World Literature Databases

African Writers Series 1962 - present A collection of over 300 full-text major African literary titles of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose. For over 40 years, Heinemann's African Writers Series published the key texts of ... Access Database African Writers Series
Austrian Literature Online 19th and early 20th centuries Austrian Literature Online (ALO), despite its English-language title, is a German-language site offering digitizations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary and cultural works from Au... Access Database Austrian Literature Online
Bertolt Brechts Werke 20th century This is an electronic edition of the major works of the playwright Bertolt Brecht. All content is in German, but the search interface is in both German and English. It is based on Brecht's Ausgewä... Access Database Bertolt Brechts Werke
Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) 1985 - present The Bibliographie der deutschen Sprache- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) is a German-language periodical index and bibliography of other publications in all aspects of German language and literatu... Access Database Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL)
Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani Dates Vary Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani is an Italian-language site featuring searchable texts (derived from older, public-domain editions) of writings in Italian by major literary authors. The site inclu... Access Database Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes 1400 - 1600 The Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes features Renaissance titles from various European libraries. To search the French-language interface and see which titles are included, click on Fac-similés.... Access Database Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes
Black Authors, 1556-1922 1556 - 1922 Collection of works by authors of African or African-American descent from 1556 to 1922, as compiled by the curators of the Afro-Americana Imprints collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia... Access Database Black Authors, 1556-1922
Cairn (French) This journal database covers subjects in the humanities and social sciences, representing primarily French and Francophone scholarly publications. Since February 2006, the National Library of Franc... Access Database Cairn (French)
Canadiana Online 1600 - 1920 Canadiana online is a full-text searchable database that includes books, journals and government publications documenting Canadian History. The e-book collection, spans three and a half centuries o... Access Database Canadiana Online
Century Journals Project (Chinese Journals) 1906 - 1993 The Century Journals Project is the single largest retrospective digital collection of 20th Century Chinese Journals More than 3,500 full-text Chinese Journals Content beginning as early as 1906 Ma... Access Database Century Journals Project (Chinese Journals)
Corpus de Littérature Francophone de l'Océan Indien du 18e Siecle aux Independances 18th Century - 1960 (or death of authors) This Corpus gives access, as completely as possible, to the whole of Francophone written and oral literature from the Indian Ocean, from the origins (18th century) to Independence (1960, or death o... Access Database Corpus de Littérature Francophone de l'Océan Indien du 18e Siecle aux Independances
Dartmouth Dante Project 14th century-to date (updates vary) The Dartmouth Dante Project contains searchable full-text versions of Dante's Commedia and of close to 50 commentaries on it from the 14th century to the present. A few files are in English; most a... Access Database Dartmouth Dante Project
Decameron Web Current (updates vary) The Decameron Web is an archive of information pertinent to the reading and studying of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It was assembled by students at Brown University under the direction of M. Ri... Access Database Decameron Web
Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL) Date Varies (updates vary) This Dutch-language site, sponsored by the Nederlandse Taalunie and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, offers literary texts (and some literary history) from the Dutch Mid... Access Database Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL)
Drama Online: Aurora Metro Books With over 125 drama plays in print, including works from Robin Soans, Manjula Padmanabhan, and Germaine Greer, Aurora Metro Books has built a wide-ranging and highly contemporary list of new drama,... Access Database Drama Online: Aurora Metro Books
Drama Online: BBC Drama Films and Documentaries Film adaptions of core curriculum plays from Sophocles, Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Isben, and Oscar Wilde alongside modern classics such as Copenhagen by playwright Michael Frayn. Access Database Drama Online: BBC Drama Films and Documentaries
Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice Collection of over 370 academic ebooks from Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints, offering critical, contextual and pedagogic content from leading voices in theatre, performance and Sha... Access Database Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice
Drama Online: L.A. Theatre Works Collection of 400 professionally-recorded audio plays from the L.A. Theatre Works, performed by world-class actors. The collection includes iconic modern literary works, Pulitzer prize-winning titl... Access Database Drama Online: L.A. Theatre Works
Drama Online: Nick Hern Books Modern Plays Over 590 modern plays from specialist theatre publisher Nick Hern Books featuring pre-eminent playwrights from the UK and Ireland, including Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, and Caryl Churchill. Access Database Drama Online: Nick Hern Books Modern Plays
Drama Online: Playwrights Canada Press Over 175 plays from established and emerging Canadian playwrights including Daniel Maclvor, Hannah Mosovitch, and Colleen Murphy. Access Database Drama Online: Playwrights Canada Press
Drama Online: The National Theatre Collection Video collection of National Theatre Live broadcasts of performances and other recordings from the NT Archive. The collection includes comedies, 20th century classic and modern plays, Shakespeare p... Access Database Drama Online: The National Theatre Collection
Duecento la poesia italiana dalle origini a Dante 1180(ca.) - 1321 An Italian-language text archive of some 2400 texts of approximately 200 Italian poets from the beginnings of the literature through Dante. It is searchable by individual words and by poetic school... Access Database Duecento la poesia italiana dalle origini a Dante
Early Canadiana Online 1600 - 1920 Early Canadiana Online is a large-scale collection of Canadian print materials comprising twelve collections of over three million pages. The parts include Early Canadian Periodicals, Early officia... Access Database Early Canadiana Online
German Studies Collection, The Dates vary German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. The German Studies Collection brings to... Access Database German Studies Collection, The
Goethes Werke im WWW (Weimarer Ausgabe) 1887-1919 This database consists primarily of the Weimar Edition of Goethe's works, originally published between 1887-1919 by Hermann Böhlau (and Nachfolger) under the patronage of Grosshezogin Sophie von Sa... Access Database Goethes Werke im WWW (Weimarer Ausgabe)
Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings is a free-access, Web-based resource developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison which complements the University of Iceland's Internet course Icelandi... Access Database Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings
Italinemo: riviste di italianistica nel mondo 2000- (updates vary) Italianemo (an acronym for "Italianistica nel mondo") analyzes and indexes articles in Italian Studies appearing in journals published in or after the year 2000. It has versions in Italian and in E... Access Database Italinemo: riviste di italianistica nel mondo
Kafkas Werke This is an electronic version of an ongoing critical edition in German of the works of the literary writer Franz Kafka. Access Database Kafkas Werke
Klapp-Online Bibliography of French Literature 1991-2014 Size of the database: 94,776 book articles, 14,8961 journal articles, 92,774 monographs and reviews, 1,420 processed periodicals Annual update of the database with approx. 16,000 titles The bibliog... Access Database Klapp-Online Bibliography of French Literature
Lexikon der Deutschen Krimi-Autoren: Internet-Edition varies (updates vary) H. P. Karr's Lexikon der deutschen Krimi-Autoren: Internet-Edition is a German-language bio-bibliography of over 120 German-speaking writers of mystery and detective fiction. The database includes ... Access Database Lexikon der Deutschen Krimi-Autoren: Internet-Edition
Lyrikline 1999-to date (updates vary) lyrikline is an international website for experiencing the diversity of contemporary poetry. Here you can listen to the melodies, sounds, and rhythms of international poetry, recited by the authors... Access Database Lyrikline
Perspicuitas: Internet-Periodikum fuer mediaevistische Sprach- , Literatur- , und Kulturwissenschaft 6th to 16th centuries CE (updates vary) Perspecuitas is a German-language collection of articles, bibliographies, reviews, project announcements, and other scholarly material dealing with medieval German language, literature, and culture... Access Database Perspicuitas: Internet-Periodikum fuer mediaevistische Sprach- , Literatur- , und Kulturwissenschaft
Princeton Dante Project Dates Vary (updates vary) This scholarly site is devoted to the works of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). It contains searchable files of his writings in the original Italian (including the Petrocchi text of th... Access Database Princeton Dante Project
Schillers Werke Comprises the complete Nationalausgabe of the German literary figure Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), including his poetry and plays, the translations, minor prose works, historical and philosophica... Access Database Schillers Werke
Stuttgarter Hölderlin-Ausgabe Online 1770 - 1843 Digital version of the so-called Grosser Stuttgarter Ausgabe of writings by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. The works are searchable once downloaded via the "DFG-viewer" (click on "ganzes Werk... Access Database Stuttgarter Hölderlin-Ausgabe Online
Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek 1450-1515 This cooperative project of Cologne University, Cologne University and Municipal Library, and Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel, has as its aim the digitalization of incunables, representing bo... Access Database Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek
Weimarer Goethe-Bibliographie Online 1991 - (updates vary) An ongoing German-language bibliography of published scholarship on the German literary and scientific author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, this continues Siegfried Seifert's printed Goethe-Bibliogra... Access Database Weimarer Goethe-Bibliographie Online
World of Dante Dates Vary (updates vary) The World of Dante offers a hypermedia environment for the study of the Inferno. This project is designed to appeal to the different purposes of a wide range of readers, not simply those with schol... Access Database World of Dante

Yiddish Literature Databases

Center for Research Libraries (CRL) The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. It supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, scie... Access Database Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
Digital Yiddish Library Dates Vary The National Yiddish Book Center is proud to offer online access to the full texts of nearly 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles. You can browse, read, download or print any or all of these books, f... Access Database Digital Yiddish Library
Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to... Access Database Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics
Hebrew Manuscripts 1399 - 1940 Manuscripts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) of New York. This site includes an invitation to other libraries to submit manuscripts for digitization for Jewish c... Access Database Hebrew Manuscripts
Index to Yiddish Periodicals (IYP) 1862 - 1939 for Europe; -1948 for Soviet Russia IYP, the Index to Yiddish Periodicals, is a bibliographical data base using Yiddish, which aims to record the materials published in the Yiddish press in Eastern Europe, from its beginnings (1862) ... Access Database Index to Yiddish Periodicals (IYP)
JNUL Digitized Book Repository (Jewish National and University Library) 15th - early 20th centuries The Jewish National and University Library is proud to announce the first stage of a project to digitize rare and out-of-print monographs from its collection. The aim of this project is to make the... Access Database JNUL Digitized Book Repository (Jewish National and University Library)
Yiddish and Hebrew Texts 1000 - present A general gateway to Yiddish-language resources including some Yiddish books. (Updated irregularly) Access Database Yiddish and Hebrew Texts
Yiddish Prints 1550 - 1920 The Collection "Yiddish Prints" contains about 800 very valuable Yiddish books that belong to the Frankfurt University Library. The texts were printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Eu... Access Database Yiddish Prints
Yiddish Sources 1500 - present Yiddish Sources is a portal for Yiddish and Yiddish Studies and offers up to date and comprehensive information including digitized collections. (Updates ongoing) Access Database Yiddish Sources

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18thConnect: Eighteenth Century Scholarship Online 1660 - 1800 18thConnect is an aggregator of digital resources that provide a comprehensive research environment for scholars working on the literature, history, the fine arts, and philosophy of the long eighte... Access Database 18thConnect: Eighteenth Century Scholarship Online
American Periodicals 1740 - 1940 American Periodicals provides access to two separate collections, American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL). American P... Access Database American Periodicals
Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur Middle Ages to the present. This Danish-language guide to Danish literary authors offers multi-page entries on individual authors usually consisting of a brief overview, a biography, surveys of the author's literary activity,... Access Database Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur
Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing Extensive bibliography of composition and rhetoric resources. Includes information about rhetorical history, curriculum, literacy, course development, teaching of writing and various kinds of commu... Access Database Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
Black Authors, 1556-1922 1556 - 1922 Collection of works by authors of African or African-American descent from 1556 to 1922, as compiled by the curators of the Afro-Americana Imprints collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia... Access Database Black Authors, 1556-1922
Book History Online 1973 - present An international bibliography in the field of book and library history, BHO "provides a comprehensive survey of all scholarly publications written from a historical perspective. Included are monogr... Access Database Book History Online
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database 1991 - present Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is a searchable database of more than 50,000 reviews of children's and young adult literature titles from education and library review journals s... Access Database Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
CompPile 1939 - present CompPile is a composition studies resource and an ongoing, searchable inventory of publications, blogs, new books and other resources in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical wri... Access Database CompPile
Danish National Archive of Literature (DNA)= Dansk Nationallitteraert Arkiv (DNA) Dates Vary Machine-readable texts of classics of Danish literature ("literature" broadly defined; the collection includes the Gesta Danorum of the medieval Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus and the Astronomia... Access Database Danish National Archive of Literature (DNA)= Dansk Nationallitteraert Arkiv (DNA)
Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) 17th-21st centuries The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a record of the regional variations of American English. It is different from other dictionaries in that it does not include words that are com... Access Database Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
Digital Theatre Plus Provides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions, musicals, and operas. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as wel... Access Database Digital Theatre Plus
Digitale Edition der Korrespondenz August Wilhelm Schlegels 1785 - 1845 Provides digital access to a large part of the extensive correspondence of translator, critic, and poet August Wilhelm Schlegel, a significant figure in the German Romanticism movement. Currently t... Access Database Digitale Edition der Korrespondenz August Wilhelm Schlegels
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) 19th century - present DRAM is an online music database offering on-demand, streaming access to an extensive and ever-growing catalog. A primary focus of the collection is the preservation and dissemination of hard-to-fi... Access Database DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
Drama Online The Drama Online core collection features 1200 titles from the pre-eminent theatre lists from Bloomsbury's Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare imprints, as well as Faber and Faber Ltd. Production p... Access Database Drama Online
Drama Online: Playwrights Canada Press Over 175 plays from established and emerging Canadian playwrights including Daniel Maclvor, Hannah Mosovitch, and Colleen Murphy. Access Database Drama Online: Playwrights Canada Press
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) 1639-1800 This collection contains digital editions of all titles in the Evans microform editions; more than 36,000 items and over 2,400,000 images, all with searchable OCR-created ASCII text. Both the digit... Access Database Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) 1475 - 1700 Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides full-text images of almost all the books printed in England and her colonies from the beginning of printing to 1700 (about 125,000 titles). You can search... Access Database Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an exceptional partnership to cre... Access Database Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)
Early European Books (EEB) Pre-1701 Early European Books provides online full-text access to a deep digital archive of rare books on all aspects of life and culture in the early modern period. The content is from the leading national... Access Database Early European Books (EEB)
Ebooks and Texts Archive: Internet Archive Dates Vary Part of the Internet Archive, this comprehensive clearinghouse of ebooks and online texts is a vast collection of freely available, full text materials in many languages and from many sources. It c... Access Database Ebooks and Texts Archive: Internet Archive
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) 18th Century -- 1701-1800 Eighteenth Century Collections Online consists of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of import... Access Database Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c1685-1815 c1685 - 1835 The Eighteenth-Century Journals Portal provides access through a single interface to digitizations of selected English-language scholarly journals and newspapers from the years 1699-1835. At presen... Access Database Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c1685-1815
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory Searchable, browsable, and with more than 300 entries, this work provides a comprehensive overview of communication theories based in a variety of disciplines. Current descriptions of theories are ... Access Database Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
English Drama 13th century - early 20th century English Drama contains more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late 13th century to the early 20th century. It includes dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, Restor... Access Database English Drama
Essay and General Literature Index 1985 - present The Essay and General Literature Index cites records contained in collections of essays and anthologies published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Topics in the humanities and social... Access Database Essay and General Literature Index
Grand Comics Database This fully searchable and sortable database includes information on creator credits, story details, and other information. It contains non-English language comics and English language comics. It is... Access Database Grand Comics Database
Grants and Awards Available to American Writers Current More than 1,000 listings of domestic and foreign grants, literary awards, fellowships, and residencies available to American writers. Searchable by keyword, genre, organization, or deadline. (Updat... Access Database Grants and Awards Available to American Writers
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences 1994 - to date H-Net Reviews publishes reviews of books and multimedia materials. While the focus is on history, many reviews of current and contemporary topics are also included. Reviews are written by academic ... Access Database H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Handrit.is Dates vary Handrit.is formerly Saganet aka Sagnanet is an ongoing scholarly project that digitalizes, stores, and makes available, page by page, images of works of Old Icelandic literature in the original lan... Access Database Handrit.is
Harper's Magazine Archive 1850 - present Harper's Magazine Archive provides searchable, full-text access to every issue of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the present. Harper's Magazine is a monthly general-interest magazine covering liter... Access Database Harper's Magazine Archive
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Current Based on the OED, the Historical Thesaurus of the OED (HTOED) contains almost every word in English from Old English to the present, allowing users to explore words connected in meaning throughout ... Access Database Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin is a searchable database of scholarly editions of Latin verse written in Italy in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth-centuries. It... Access Database Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin
Humanities International Complete 1975 - Humanities Index Complete is a comprehensive database covering more than 2,100 journals, books and other important reference sources published worldwide in the humanities, with a focus on literary,... Access Database Humanities International Complete
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) 1450-1501 International database of 15th-century European imprints for nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501. Includes some 16th-century items previously assigned incorrectly to the 15th ce... Access Database Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC)
Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv (IZA) 1965 - to date The IZA is a searchable, full-text German-language archive of more than 800,000 newspaper and journal articles bearing on German literature (including film and theater) or on the German language. I... Access Database Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv (IZA)
International African Bibliography Online 1971 - present The International African Bibliography (IAB) is an essential resource for all those working in the field of African studies, providing a current awareness service of the latest books, articles and ... Access Database International African Bibliography Online
James Joyce Scholars' Collection The selected works compiled in the James Joyce Scholars' Collection (JJSC) all share two characteristics: 1) all the books are currently out-of-print and 2) they are valuable, perhaps indispensable... Access Database James Joyce Scholars' Collection
Liberation Journals Index 1931 - 1970 The Liberation Journals Index is an analytic, searchable, online index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Légitime Défense, L’Étudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques... Access Database Liberation Journals Index
Literature Collection, The The Literature Collection is a multilayered grouping of works in literature and the humanities. From medieval to modern, scholarly to satirical, there is something for everyone. Diversity rules: th... Access Database Literature Collection, The
Literature Resource Center Periodicals Current Literature Resource Center includes information on a large number of authors and literary works taken from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, a... Access Database Literature Resource Center Periodicals
Literature Resource Center Reference Current Biographies, bibliographies and analysis of over 115,000 authors.In-depth coverage of 2000 of the most studied authors. (Updates ongoing) Access Database Literature Resource Center Reference
Magill's Literary Annual 1977 - to date (Updated annually) This annual publication contains reviews of the 200 most notable books published in the previous year. Works reviewed include both fiction and non-fiction, English-language and non-English-language... Access Database Magill's Literary Annual
Manuscripta medievalia Middle ages; 600 - 1500 AD A database of medieval manuscripts (mostly in Greek or Latin) from the German-speaking areas of Europe. (Updated regularly) Access Database Manuscripta medievalia
MLA Directory of Periodicals The MLA Directory of Periodicals provides detailed information on over 6,000 journals and book series that cover literature, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, language, linguistics, pedagog... Access Database MLA Directory of Periodicals
Modernist Journals Project, 1890 to 1922 1890 to 1922 The Modernist Journals Project provides fully-searchable online editions of the English-language journals and magazines that were important in shaping those modes of literature and art that came to... Access Database Modernist Journals Project, 1890 to 1922
New Yorker Archive 1925 - present The New Yorker Archive provides access to every page of The New Yorker going back to its first issue in 1925. The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting on national and internation... Access Database New Yorker Archive
NINES: Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online 1770 - 1920; 19th Century NINES is a searchable and tagged site linking the material, cultural and literary archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. The NINES site is a sou... Access Database NINES: Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online
Nineteenth Century Collections Online 19th Century Nineteenth Century Collections Online unites multiple, distinct archives into a single resource, including a wide variety of previously unavailable primary sources ranging from books and monographs... Access Database Nineteenth Century Collections Online
NoveList: Your Guide to Fiction 1900 - to date NoveList is a source for assisting fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It includes information on more than 150,000 titles, including authors, publication information, subjects, book... Access Database NoveList: Your Guide to Fiction
OED Oxford English Dictionary Current The OED contains the complete contents of the 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and three Additions volumes published from 1993-97. It also includes quarterly releases of wo... Access Database OED Oxford English Dictionary
Online Books Page, The Ancient to present The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books. Major parts of the si... Access Database Online Books Page, The
OVI: Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (ARTFL Project) 10th - 14th Centuries The Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) is a searchable database of 22.3 million words (456,000 unique forms) in nearly 2000 texts in early Italian by medieval writers (mostly prior to 1375). Laid... Access Database OVI: Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (ARTFL Project)
Oxford Classical Dictionary The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) is a standard one-volume encyclopedia of everything relating to ancient Greece and Rome. Access Database Oxford Classical Dictionary
Past Masters Dates Vary Past Masters provides access to searchable full text databases of primary works, letters, journals, and notebooks from important philosophers and women writers. Our collection includes works by Ari... Access Database Past Masters
Periodicals Archive Online 1802 - 2000 An online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles, Periodicals Archive Online provides access to hundreds of scholarly journals. Coverage is international and includes a wide range of sch... Access Database Periodicals Archive Online
Philological Museum: an Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Titles 14th century - present This is an ongoing bibliography of writings in Latin in all disciplines from the fourteenth century onward whose digitizations are freely available on the Web. Entries are arranged alphabetically b... Access Database Philological Museum: an Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Titles
PIO: Periodicals Index Online Late 18th Century - 1996 The PIO database contains citations for more than 3,500 social science and humanities journals published in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Germany. There are occasional abs... Access Database PIO: Periodicals Index Online
Project Gutenberg before 1923 The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books, and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs, and people can easily read, ... Access Database Project Gutenberg
Project Runeberg Dates vary Project Runeberg is a Swedish-centered, volunteer-based project that offers in HTML format more than 200 original-language classic works of Nordic literature, music, and the history of science, plu... Access Database Project Runeberg
Queen Victoria's Journals 1832-1840 Complete online collection of the entire sequence of Queen Victoria's diaries, with full transcriptions and keyword searching of the journal entries covering the period from Queen Victoria's first ... Access Database Queen Victoria's Journals
Sabin Americana, (1500 - 1926) 1500 - 1926 Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography (Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time), this collection contains works about the Ame... Access Database Sabin Americana, (1500 - 1926)
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection 1672 - 1737 Collection of newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets, that make up the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK. All 296 volumes of bound material, coveri... Access Database Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection
Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library 1600-1970 Prompt books for performances of Shakespeare’s plays between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, and supporting material for 17 selected plays. Documents are indexed by genre, country, theatre... Access Database Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library
Short story index retrospective, 1915-1983 Retrospective: 1915 - 1983 Short Story Index Retrospective is an index of more than 150,000 short stories published over 150 years from 350 periodicals and collections of short stories. In addition, there are links to the fu... Access Database Short story index retrospective, 1915-1983
Theatre in Video Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the worlds most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries and interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors - all onlin... Access Database Theatre in Video
Thesaurus of Old English 5th to mid-12th Century This is a thesaurus of Old English, searchable by either modern or Old English terms. There is also a Browse feature. An Old English phrase search is included. TOE Online is an electronic version o... Access Database Thesaurus of Old English
UbuWeb 20th century - present UbuWeb was founded in November of 1996, initially as a repository for visual, concrete and, later, sound poetry. Over the years, UbuWeb has embraced all forms of the avant-garde and beyond. This ri... Access Database UbuWeb
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels 1950s - Present Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary-source database focused on adult comic books and graphic novels. Here are the works of artists alo... Access Database Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
Voltaire électronique Voltaire électronique is based upon the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the Complete works of Voltaire. It includes all of Voltaire's literary works. Texts which have not yet been published i... Access Database Voltaire électronique
Web of Science Arts & Humanities, 1975 to present; Science, 1900 to present; 1965 - for Science; Social Sciences, 1900 to present; Conferences, 1990 to present The Web of Science is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (... Access Database Web of Science
World Folklore & Folklife Database Tracing the origins and development of all aspects of traditional cultures around the world, this resource provides a wealth of information related to the myths, legends, and folktales of a particu... Access Database World Folklore & Folklife Database
Wright American Fiction 1851 - 1875 This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,987 unedited, 900 fully edi... Access Database Wright American Fiction

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