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MLA International Bibliography
Published by the Modern Language Association. Index to articles in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from several thousand journals and series published worldwide. Also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
Coverage: 1926 - present. CU

ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)
Contains over 783,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. All aspects and periods of English literature are covered, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. British, American and Commonwealth writing are all represented.
Coverage: 1920 - present. CU

Humanities Abstracts/Full Text
A bibliographic database that delivers the same indexing and abstracts offered in Humanities Abstracts and Humanities Index, and also adds links to “selected” full text articles. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.
Coverage: Abstracts from 1985 to the present; full text from 1994 to the present. CU

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
Coverage : 1980 to the present. CU

Expanded Academic ASAP
Access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers across all academic disciplines.
Coverage: 1980 - present. CU

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.CU Coverage: 1969 - present. CU

CompPile
Fully searchable database of publications in composition, rhetoric, etc. Includes 63 journals (1939-1999) with links, current coverage of rhet/comp publishing houses and 800+ edited collections, 50+ series, as well as over 7,000 dissertations and 154 items related to teaching in the field.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

Includes 13,000 poems in full text, and 25,000 poetry citations for poems in anthologies. It also includes selective commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, notes on form, and a glossary of terms. It is possible to search by: Author, Author Category, Subject, Title, First Line, Last Line, Words in Poem, or a combination of searches. It provides simple and advanced searching. CU

Contemporary Authors
Biographical details on approximately 112,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters.CU

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Collections of excerpted critical essays and reviews selected from the hardbound reference set Contemporary Literary Criticism (PN86 .C6 Reference Stacks). These are only excerpts and represent only a portion of the criticism available on authors or their work. CU

Dictionary of Literary Biography

A contemporary 300+ volume literary encyclopedia with substantive 2 to 5 page biographical introductions, critical evaluations, and bibliographic essays on authors, critics, journalists, screenwriters, publishers and scholars, a majority of whom have published in the 20th century. The database, which will continue to grow, includes a large number of international literary figures. This is one of the better beginning overview resources for research on individuals within literary movements, diverse cultures, and literary formats. CU

Essay and General Literature Index
Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.CU

JSTOR
Digitized collection of full-text journal articles covering a diverse range of subjects.CU

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism

A reference guide to the intellectual traditions of literary theory, from Plato and Aristotle to the present, but with a concentration on modern literary criticism and theoretical research.

Johns Hopkins University Project Muse
Full-text, full-image journals. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. CU

Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Page images and searchable full-text of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans. Covers every aspect of in 17th- and 18th-century American life including history, literature, religion and foreign affairs. Upon completion the database will consist of 36,000 titles. CU

Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this primary source collection provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. CU

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Includes the complete page images of 96,000 volumes in all subject areas published in Great Britain or in the English language between 1475 and 1700, and represented in the English Short Title Catalog and Thomason Tracts. CU

Early English Books Online: Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)
Subset of Early English Books Online. Currently includes searchable full text of 1,500 titles chosen from the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 200 tiles are added monthly. When complete, EEBO-TCP will contain 25,000 texts. CU

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalog, a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide. This includes over 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701-1800. CU

English Short Title Catalog (ESTC)
Provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language—as well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in the world. Coverage is from the beginnings of print to 1800 including all recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700. CU

Evans Early American Imprint Collection: Text Creation Partnership (Evans-TCP)
The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the Evans Early American Imprints Collection. Evans is the most significant collection of titles relating to the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century America, and the Text creation partnership seeks to create enduring digital text editions of the most frequently studied works. NewsBank/Readex is producing digital page images and searchable OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for the overall collection. 342 texts are currently available and about 150 are added bi-monthly. CU

Index to Early American Periodicals: APS I, II, and III 1741-1935
Index to the microfilm collections of the same names (often referred to as APS I, APS II and APS III). CU

Index to English Literary Periodicals (ELP): 1681 - 1941
Consists of 233 titles published during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England.CU

International Medieval Bibliography Online
Bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500).CU

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Bibliography of interdisciplinary literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). CU

Oxford English Dictionary
The most comprehensive English language dictionary, the OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). It is updated quarterly with the goal of presenting a completely new 3rd edition by 2010. CU

Periodicals Index Online
Index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences since 1770. CU

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Full-text archive of poetry by women of the Romantic period
Coverage: Varies CU

Wellesley Index

The Wellesley Index identifies the authors of articles within 45 major Victorian periodicals, and provides a bibliography for each contributor. CU

Women Writers Online, Brown University
200+ full text items from published primary source materials related to women and women's studies,from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period. CU

World Shakespeare Bibliography
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare.
Coverage: 1971 - present. CU

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
Electronic texts of works drawn from the bibliography by Lyle H. Wright titled American Fiction 1851-1875: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography. The electronic texts are being developed by the Indiana University Digital Library Program. The library is loading cataloging records for these items which will provide links to approximately 2000 late 19th century fictional electronic works. CU

General Reference Center Gold
Articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Coverage: 1980 - present. CU

LexisNexis Academic
Interdisciplinary database that contains the full text of national, international, and regional news, newswires, transcripts, magazine articles, legal and business information, public opinion polls, and other sources.
Coverage: varies. CU

RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History Online
Bibliography of publications relating to the history of the British Isles, and of the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. CU

UCB Libraries Subject Guide for English and American Literature