Databases by Subject

MLA International Bibliography

Critical scholarly materials in literature, criticism, drama, language, linguistics, rhetoric & composition, humanities, and folklore. Includes selective indexing of JSTOR journal titles.   (more...)

Literary Reference Center

Includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, and more.   (more...)

Contemporary Authors

Biographical information on more than 120,000 modern and contemporary authors.   (more...)

ERIC

The Educational Resources Information Center is a unique database which indexes over 500 education and education-related journals, 2,200 digests, and 500,000+ ERIC documents from 1966+.   (more...)

Education Research Complete

Scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.   (more...)

Education Abstracts

Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues. Covers 500+ core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks.   (more...)

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

Locates the text of poems in anthologies, collected works, and selected works. Some poems are available online in their entirety or as excerpts.   (more...)

Oxford English Dictionary

Definitions, word origins, and quotations showing their range of meanings from the time they entered the language to the present   (more...)

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900

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

The Times Digital Archive

Full-text and full-image articles from The Times of London, England for the years 1785-1985. Note: this is the Monday - Saturday newspaper; The Sunday Times is not included.   (more...)

American Drama

American dramatic literature from 1714 to the present.   (more...)

African-American Poetry 1760-1900

Full text of almost 3000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.   (more...)

American Periodicals Series Online

Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers.   (more...)

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature

Citations to monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, and more.   (more...)

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals; includes citation searching.   (more...)

Bible in English

21 editions of the Bible written in English, covering the language's history from the Tenth through the Twentieth Centuries.   (more...)

Bibliography of American Literature

Nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers.   (more...)

Chicano Database

Contains citations to journal and newspaper articles and to books related to Mexican Americans as well as the broader Latino experience.   (more...)

Communication & Mass Media Complete

Index, abstracts, and full text for journals in communication and mass media.   (more...)

Early American Fiction

440 novels and short stories of 80 American writers, 1774-1850.   (more...)

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare

The complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works.   (more...)

Eighteenth Century Fiction

Contains the complete text of 96 works of English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles.   (more...)

English Poetry 600-1900

Contains the full text of over 160,000 poems written in English by approximately 1,350 poets.   (more...)

English Prose Drama

English Prose Drama is based on plays listed in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature that were written or intended for the stage and wholly or primarily in prose.   (more...)

English Short Title Catalogue

Contains records for items of all types published in Great Britain or its colonies or in English from 1473 to 1800.   (more...)

English Verse Drama

Contains the full text of over 2200 plays by more than 500 named authors and 300 anonymous works.   (more...)

FRANCIS

Information on a wide range of multilingual sources, mostly in the humanities and social sciences, including books and over 4,000 journals.   (more...)

Hand Press Book Database

Includes records for European printing of the hand-press period from the Consortium of European Research Libraries.   (more...)

Humanities International Complete

Index, abstracts, and full text for literary, scholarly and creative journals in the humanities.   (more...)

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period

Includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women.   (more...)

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance

Includes journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts and full-text articles on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.   (more...)

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

The Iter bibliography addresses aspects of the Middle Ages and Renaissance--archaeology, art, history, literature, music, philosophy, religion, and history of science--covering the years 400 - 1700.   (more...)

JSTOR

Digitized, complete back files of core scholarly journals from most disciplines.   (more...)

MLA Directory of Periodicals

Lists over 4400 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography.   (more...)

Nineteenth Century Masterfile

Provides access to periodicals of the 19th century.   (more...)

Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginning to the Present

Includes biographical and writing career entries on over a thousand writers, more than eight hundred and fifty of them British women. It also includes selected non-British or international women writers, and British and international men, whose writing was an important, sometimes a shaping, element in a particular writing climate.   (more...)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Provides authoritative biographical articles on persons who have shaped the British past.   (more...)

Play Index

Citations to roughly 30,000 plays.   (more...)

Social Sciences Citation Index

Citations and abstracts for articles in 1,700 journals in the social sciences.   (more...)

Twentieth Century African American Poetry

12,000 poems and with biographical profiles by more than 100 African-American poets.   (more...)

Twentieth Century English Poetry

Over 44,000 poems by 288 poets.   (more...)

Twentieth Century American Poetry

Over 52,000 works from more than 316 poets.   (more...)

Academic Search Complete

Over 4,500 publications with full text coverage for more than 3,500 scholarly journals in nearly every discipline.   (more...)