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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... View MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco) Online

Core Databases

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, ... View Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) Online
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... View Cambridge Companions Online Online
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism Online, The View Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism Online, The Online
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Dates Vary JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, bota... View JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Online
Literary Reference Center 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... View Literary Reference Center Online
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 ... View Literature Criticism Online 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, a... View Literature Resource Center Online
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... View MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco) Online
MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest) 1926 - present NOTE: Access to MLA International Bibliography moved to the Ebsco platform in 2019, as a result of MLA entering into an exclusive agreement with Ebsco to host their content. The Modern Language Ass... View MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest) Online
Oxford Handbooks Online Current Oxford Handbooks Online provides access to the full text of more than 190 plus titles published as part of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks series, plus specially commissioned keywords and abstract... View Oxford Handbooks Online Online
Project Muse Project Muse provides full text access to more than 300 humanities and social science journals from various publishers. Disciplines covered include art, anthropology, literature, film, theatre, his... View Project Muse Online
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902 to (the present minus 5 years) This full text archive of the complete Times Literary Supplement contains every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902 - (present - 5 years rolling horizon). Reviews of books in many dis... View Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive Online

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 ... View African American Poetry Online
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... View Black Drama Online

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... View 19th Century UK Periodicals Parts I and II Online
Ambrose Video (BBC Shakespeare Plays) Provides streaming access to selected educational videos including the BBC complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare. (Not updated) View Ambrose Video (BBC Shakespeare Plays) Online
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... View At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 Online
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... View British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1950 Online
British Humanities Index 1950s - present BHI indexes and abstracts approximately 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspaper... View British Humanities Index Online
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 ... View British Periodicals (1680s to the 1930s) Online
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... View Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online
Dictionary of Old English: A to G 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... View Dictionary of Old English: A to G Online Online
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... View Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare Online
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. ... View Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780) Online
English Verse Drama Database Late 1200s - 1900 English Verse Drama contains more than 2,000 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century to the end of the ... View English Verse Drama Database Online
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... View Folger Digital Texts (Shakespeare) Online
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... View Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 Online
London Low Life 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... View London Low Life Online
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... View Mass Observation Online 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... View Middle English Compendium Online
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... View Nineteenth Century Fiction Online
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... View Shakespeare Survey Online Online
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... View State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe (1509-1782) Online
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 ... View Victorian Database Online Online
Victorian Web 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... View Victorian Web Online
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... View Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 Online
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... View World Shakespeare Bibliography Online 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... View American Poetry Online
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 ... View American Verse Project Online
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... View Emily Dickinson Archive Online
English Poetry Database 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... View English Poetry Database Online
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... View Lyrikline Online
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... View New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Online
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 ... View PennSound Online
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 ... View Walt Whitman Archive Online

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... View British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1950 Online
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... View Cairns Collection of American Women Writers to 1930: Author List Online
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... View Defining Gender Online
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... View Emily Dickinson's Correspondences Online
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 ... View Everyday Life and Women in America c.1800-1920 Online
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online 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... View Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online Online
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... View Godey's Lady's Book, Parts I - IX (1830-1898) Online
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... View North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 Online
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... View Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period Online
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... View Women Writers Online (1400-1850) Online

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 ... View African Writers Series Online
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... View Austrian Literature Online Online
Bertolt Brechts Werke 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... View Bertolt Brechts Werke Online
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... View Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) Online
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... View Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani Online
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.... View Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes Online
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... View Cairn (French) 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... View Century Journals Project (Chinese Journals) Online
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... View Corpus de Littérature Francophone de l'Océan Indien du 18e Siecle aux Independances Online
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... View Dartmouth Dante Project Online
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... View Decameron Web Online
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... View Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL) Online
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... View Duecento la poesia italiana dalle origini a Dante Online
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... View Early Canadiana Online 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... View German Studies Collection, The Online
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... View Goethes Werke im WWW (Weimarer Ausgabe) Online
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... View Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings Online
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... View Italinemo: riviste di italianistica nel mondo Online
Kafkas Werke This is an electronic version of an ongoing critical edition in German of the works of the literary writer Franz Kafka. View Kafkas Werke Online
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... View Klapp-Online Bibliography of French Literature Online
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 ... View Lexikon der Deutschen Krimi-Autoren: Internet-Edition Online
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... View Lyrikline Online
Perspecuitas: 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... View Perspecuitas: Internet-Periodikum fuer mediaevistische Sprach- , Literatur- , und Kulturwissenschaft Online
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... View Princeton Dante Project Online
Schillers Werke im World Wide Web 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... View Schillers Werke im World Wide Web Online
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... View Stuttgarter Hölderlin-Ausgabe Online Online
Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek 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... View Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek Online
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... View Weimarer Goethe-Bibliographie Online 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... View World of Dante Online

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... View Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Online
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... View Digital Yiddish Library Online
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... View Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online
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... View Hebrew Manuscripts Online
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) ... View Index to Yiddish Periodicals (IYP) Online
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... View JNUL Digitized Book Repository (Jewish National and University Library) Online
Yiddish and Hebrew Texts 1000 - present A general gateway to Yiddish-language resources including some Yiddish books. (Updated irregularly) View Yiddish and Hebrew Texts Online
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... View Yiddish Prints Online
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) View Yiddish Sources Online

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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... View 18thConnect: Eighteenth Century Scholarship Online Online
American Periodicals 1740 - 1940 American Periodicals Series Online™ (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the middle of the 20th century. Titles ran... View American Periodicals Online
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,... View Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur Online
Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing Extensive bibliography of composition and rhetoric resources (2003 6th ed. (electronic version). Includes information about rhetorical history, curriculum, literacy, course development, teaching of... View Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing Online
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... View Book History Online 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... View Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Online
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... View CompPile Online
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... View Danish National Archive of Literature (DNA)= Dansk Nationallitteraert Arkiv (DNA) Online
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... View Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) Online
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... View Digitale Edition der Korrespondenz August Wilhelm Schlegels Online
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... View DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) Online
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... View Drama Online Online
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... View Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) Online
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... View Early English Books Online (EEBO) Online
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... View Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) Online
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... View Early European Books (EEB) Online
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... View Ebooks and Texts Archive: Internet Archive Online
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... View Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Online
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... View Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c1685-1815 Online
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 ... View Encyclopedia of Communication Theory Online
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... View Essay and General Literature Index Online
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... View Grand Comics Database Online
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... View Grants and Awards Available to American Writers Online
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 ... View H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences Online
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... View Handrit.is Online
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... View Harper's Magazine Archive Online
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 ... View Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
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... View Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin Online
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,... View Humanities International Complete Online
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) 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... View Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) Online
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... View Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv (IZA) Online
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 ... View International African Bibliography Online 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... View James Joyce Scholars' Collection Online
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... View Liberation Journals Index Online
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... View Literature Collection, The Online
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... View Literature Resource Center Periodicals Online
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) View Literature Resource Center Reference Online
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... View Magill's Literary Annual Online
Manuscripta medievalia 600 - 1500 AD A database of medieval manuscripts (mostly in Greek or Latin) from the German-speaking areas of Europe. (Updated regularly) View Manuscripta medievalia Online
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... View Modernist Journals Project, 1890 to 1922 Online
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... View New Yorker Archive Online
NINES: Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online 1770 - 1920 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... View NINES: Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online 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... View Nineteenth Century Collections Online 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... View NoveList: Your Guide to Fiction Online
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... View OED Oxford English Dictionary Online
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... View Online Books Page, The Online
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... View OVI: Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (ARTFL Project) Online
Oxford Classical Dictionary The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) is a standard one-volume encyclopedia of everything relating to ancient Greece and Rome. View Oxford Classical Dictionary Online
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... View Past Masters Online
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... View Periodicals Archive Online 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... View Philological Museum: an Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Titles Online
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... View PIO: Periodicals Index Online 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, ... View Project Gutenberg Online
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... View Project Runeberg Online
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... View Sabin Americana, (1500 - 1926) Online
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... View Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library Online
Short Story Index and Retrospective Regular 1984 - to date; Retrospective: 1915 - 1983 Regular SSI: An index of more than 117,000 stories published in more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, including stories that appear in periodicals. The full text of almost 5,000 stories is a... View Short Story Index and Retrospective Online
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... View Theatre in Video Online
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... View Thesaurus of Old English Online
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... View UbuWeb Online
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... View Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels Online
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... View Voltaire électronique Online
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 (... View Web of Science Online
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... View World Folklore & Folklife Database Online
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... View Wright American Fiction Online

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