Literature and Language

Recommended Databases

Literature Criticism Online
Description: Literature Criticism Online contais 10 different Gale databases, including: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children's Literature Review.
Coverage: current.

MLA Bibliography
Description: The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of bibliographic records (some full text articles) pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Coverage: 1926 to the present.

Literary Reference Center
Description: Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.
Coverage: varies
LitFinder
Description : LitFINDER contains a wealth of primary literature content, including citations and full text of hundreds of thousands of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays
Coverage: Varies.

JSTOR
Description: JSTOR is unique because the contains complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in PDF full text format. Many journals reach back to the 1800s.
Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to 2000.

Academic Search Complete from EbscoHost
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals.

Contemporary Authors
Description : A bio-biographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
Coverage: Current
Humanities International Complete
Description: Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
Coverage: varies
Book Review Digest Retrospective
Description: Book Review Digest Retrospective provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt, and most have at least two. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. However, books on science for the general reader are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Coverage: 1905-1982
Historical New York Times
Description: Historical Newspapers-The New York Times has full text and full image articles from the New York Times dating back to the 19th century.
Coverage: 1851-2006.

Project Muse
Description: Project Muse provides the full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Coverage: 1995 -
Humanities Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting of English- language periodicals on disciplines including literature and language.
Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately 1990 to the present.
Art and Humanities Citation Index
Coverage: 1987 - present

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Description: CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.

Eighteenth Century Collection Online
Description : Contains 33 million text searchable pages based on the English Short Title Catalogue, a machine readable union list of holdings of the British Library, as well as holding from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide.
Coverage: 1701-1800

Early English Books Online
Description : From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition.
Coverage: 1475-1700

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Description : Contains writings of women from Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Coverage: 1500-1900

Black Drama
Description: Black Drama includes rare plays written from the 1850's to the present. North America, English-speaking Africa, the Carribbean, and other African Diaspora countries are represented. Includes many previously unpublished plays.
Coverage: 1850's to present

Oxford English Dictionary
Description: Traces the usage of words from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Coverage: 1st, 2nd Editions and all supplements are included.
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
Description: Provides a historical record of what it was like to immigrate to the United States and Canada.
Coverage: 1840-present, with the majority of the coverage from 1920-1980.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Description: Includes the immediate experiences of hundreds of women, as revealed in diaries and letters.
Coverage: Colonial to 1950

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Description: Covers 60 volumes of rare lyric poetry from Scottish women poets.
Coverage: 1789-1832

ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
Description: Nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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