Databases by Subject
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Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
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| 18th-Century Fiction (LION) |  |
1700-1780 |
| English prose by writers from the British Isles from 1700 to 1780. | ||
| 19th-Century Fiction (LION) | |
1782-1903 |
| English prose by writers from the British Isles from 1700 to 1780.
Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| 20th Century African-American Poetry (LION) | |
Early 20th century - current |
| Poems by 20th-Century African-American poets. Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| 20th Century American Poetry (LION) | |
1900-1999 |
| Poems from the colonial period to the early 20th century. Includes dedications, notes, arguments, and epigraphs, texts of individual poems, and complete texts of four major anthologies published before 1840. Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| 20th Century English Poetry (LION) | |
1901-2000 |
| Poetry of over 285 poets from 1900 to the present, from Carcanet, Enitharmon, Anvil Press, Bloodaxe Books and other poetry publishers, as well as the Faber Poetry Library. Includes poetry in English by poets from outside the British Isles as well as significant translations of non-English poetry. | ||
| ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) (Chadwyck-Healey) | 1920-current | |
| Indexes books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations. Covers English language syntax, phonology, lexicology, etc. and English poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory and studies of individual authors, bibliography, and traditional culture of the English-speaking world (custom, belief, narrative, song, dance and material culture) Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project) | ||
| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
| African-American Poetry (LION) | |
1750-1900 |
| Full text of nearly 3,000 poems by 18th and 19th century African-American poets. First edition texts used whenever possible. Contents based upon the bibliography of William French, "Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources" (Gale Research, 1979). | ||
| American Poetry (LION) | |
1600-2000 |
| Poems from the colonial period to the early twentieth century. | ||
| ARTFL (University of Chicago) | |
1300-2000 |
| Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) at the University of Chicago. Includes 2000 texts covering literature, philosophy, arts, and sciences from the 13th to the 20th centuries and also dictionaries. | ||
| Arts & Humanities Search (FirstSearch) | 1980-current | |
| Index to articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more in leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from social science and science journals. | ||
| AustLit | 1780-current | |
| Indexes and describes Australian literature published in print and electronic sources. Includes selected critical articles and creative writing in full text. | ||
| Bibliography of American Literature (LION) | ||
| Describes the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. | ||
| Black Studies Center (Proquest) | ||
| Gateway to Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index. | ||
| Books In Print (FirstSearch) | |
annual |
| In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos from North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers. | ||
| British Humanities Index (CSA) | 1962-current | |
| Indexes over 320 arts and humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. | ||
| Canadian Poetry (LION) | ||
| Full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott, offering a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth. | ||
| Caribbean Literature (Alexander Street Press) | 19th-20th centuries | |
| Collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. | ||
| Carlyle Letters Online: a Victorian Cultural Reference | ||
| Collection of the letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Features correspondence with some of the most influential artistic, philosophic, and literary personalities of the day. | ||
| CHOICE (Bowker) | 1988-current | |
| Contains reviews of significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. | ||
| Columbia Granger's World of Poetry | |
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| Contains the contents of the following works: Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies (eds. 8-11), Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies (2nd ed.), Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations, Classic Hundred Poems, as well as new content not published previously | ||
| Contemporary Poets (Thomson Gale) | ||
| Biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets including personal and career information, addresses, a detailed bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and more. Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. | ||
| Dictionary of Old English A-G Online | ||
| Dictionary of Old English Old English Corpus (University of Michigan) | |
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| The DOE electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English, with the exception of some variant manuscripts of individual texts. There are 3037 texts in the corpus. | ||
| Early American Fiction (LION) | |
pre-1850 |
| Selected full texts of first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 owned by the University of Virginia library. | ||
| Early American Imprints/Evans Digital Edition (Newsbank) | 1639-1800 | |
| Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans’ American Bibliography, as enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement. This set has long served as a rich resource for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. | ||
| Early English Books Online (Proquest) | |
1475-1700 |
| Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). | ||
| Early English Prose Fiction (LION) | |
1500-1700 |
| A single edition of each work, usually the first, has been included. The entire text of each individual work has been included, with all prefatory matter and annotation by the original author. All accompanying material, such as illustrations, contents pages, appendices, lists of subscribers, dedications, errata lists, etc. also appears. | ||
| Editions & Adaptations of Shakespeare (LION) | |
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| Full texts, with all introductions, prefaces, appendices, indices, notes editorial and authorial, essays, tables, figures, illustrations etc. reproduced in full. Half title pages, publisher's advertisements and decorations have not been captured. Hypertext links have been created to connect editorial matter to the texts whenever possible. | ||
| English Poetry (LION) | |
600-1900 |
| English Poetry contains over 160,000 poems essentially comprising the complete English poetic canon from 600-1900. Drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources, with more than 1,250 poets are represented. | ||
| Evans Digital Edition (Newsbank) | |
1639-1800 |
| Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans' American Bibliography, as enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement. This set has long served as a rich resource for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
| Faber Poetry Library (LION) | |
20th century |
| The Faber Poetry Library is comprised of 140 volumes of poetry containing the works of 50 poets. | ||
| History E-Book Project (now ACLS Humanities E-Book) | |
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| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
| Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project) | ||
| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
| Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism (Johns Hopkins University Press) | |
current |
| Literary theory and criticism from Plato and Aristotle to the present with wide geographical and cultural coverage. Concentration is on modern criticism and theoretical research. Includes entries on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. | ||
| Literature Online (LION) | |
Dates vary |
| English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Limited to 4 simultaneous users | ||
| Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database (NYU) | ||
| Annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film, video and art related to medicine. | ||
| LitFinder (Gale) | Antiquity-current | |
| Includes fulltext of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays from antiquity to the present. | ||
| Middle English Dictionary | 1100-1500 | |
| Comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. | ||
| MLA Bibliography (FirstSearch) | 1926-current | |
| Indexes scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Includes journal articles, monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals. | ||
| Oxford English Dictionary (OED) | |
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| Complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition and its 3-volume Additions Series. | ||
| Patrologia Latina (Chadwyck Healey) | |
200 AD-1216 |
| Works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. Contains the complete first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855) including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes (1862-1865) | ||
| Shakespeare Bibliography | 1900-current | |
| Indexes books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, production reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900. | ||
| Short Story Index | |
1984-current |
| Index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals, with full text of more than 1600. | ||
| Siku Quanshu | ||
| Siku Quanshu, comprising four traditional divisions of Jing (Classics), Shi (Records), Zi (Scholars) and Ji (Collections), contains more than 3,400 titles, total of 79,000 volumes bound into more than 36,000 books on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, etc. These classics represent the most abundant, complete and comprehensive canon of Chinese civilization. PC only, Internet Explorer only. Follow link to download software and instructions for installing. | ||
| South and Southeast Asian Literature (Alexander Street Press) | ||
| Fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras. | ||
| Story Finder | |
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| Contains short stories, from classic to contemporary with explanations, biographies, pictures and more. | ||
| Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (Primary Source Media) | |
1902-1990 |
| Book reviews | ||
| Twayne Author Series (Gale) | ||
| Literary criticism of English, American and world authors. Critical introductions to lives and works of writers, history and influence of literary movements, or development of literary genres. Presents major literary trends and important contributions to scholarship and criticism. Includes chronologies, biographies, critical analyses, and annotated bibliographies. | ||
| Twentieth Century English Poetry (LION) | 1900-current | |
| Contains poetry of over 285 British poets from 1900 to the present day.
Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| Victorian Database Online | 1945-current | |
| References to articles, books, and dissertations on every field of nineteenth-century British studies. | ||
| Webster's Unabridged (LION) | |
1993 ed. |
| Online version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published in 1961, and subsequent updates. Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| Women Writers Online (Brown Univ.) | |
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| Includes texts by pre-Victorian women writers. | ||
| World Shakespeare Bibliography (Johns Hopkins) | 1900-current | |
| Indexes books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, production reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900. | ||
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