Literature and Language
Recommended Databases
- 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.
- 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 Premier from EbscoHost
Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier from EbscoHostcontains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
- 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
- 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: 1851-2001; more recent articles can be found in ProQuest Newspapers.
- 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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