Databases
- Most Important Resources
- Articles (Journals, Magazines, Newspapers)
- Primary Sources & Early Books
- Guides to Authors, Plots, & Brief Literary Criticism
- Related Resources (History, Education, Humanities)
- Dissertations
- Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Biographies
- Library Catalogs
- Book Reviews
Most Important Resources
MLA
International (Modern Language Association) Bibliography (1926
to present)
- Indexes books, essays in books, articles from nearly 4000 journals, proceedings, dissertations as listed in Dissertation Abstracts International, and other materials; excludes book reviews. Is the most comprehensive index covering modern languages (including computer and invented), literatures, linguistics, and folklore since 1000 A.D.
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ABELL
(Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) (1920
to present)
- Index to books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations on language and literature; produced by the Modern Humanities Association (Great Britain)
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LLBA:
Linguistics and Language Behavior (1973 to present)
- Abstracts books, technical reports, articles in approximately 2,000 journals; indexes book reviews and dissertations. Covers language behavior, rhetoric, linguistics (including psycholinguistics, phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, sociolinguistics,) nonverbal communication, phonetics, and hearing and speech physiology and pathology (communication disorders)
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- Provides the fulltext of biographical and critical materials from Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography and portions from Contemporary Literary Criticism and other Gale literary criticism sets covering the classical period to the present; also provides links to author websites.
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World
Shakespeare Bibliography (1962 to 6 months ago)
- Provides annotated listings for books, journal articles, dissertations, reviews of books and theatrical productions, electronic media and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare; international in coverage.
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Humanities International Index (1925 to present)
- Indexes over 1,700 creative (little mags) journals, literary criticism journals, and more general humanities journals and books.
- The majority of little mags covered are not indexed elsewhere.
- All articles from the journals are indexed, including poetry, fiction, photographs, paintings, illustrations, reviews, and criticism.
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Articles (Journals, Magazines, Newspapers)
Academic Search Premier (1984 to present)
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
- Abstracts and indexes over 7,900 journals (over 6,175 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Provides the full text of over 4,500 journals (over 3,600 of those are peer-reviewed).
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- Provides indexing and abstracts to over 10,000 general periodicals and scholarly journals
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- Indexes and abstracts a few thousand journals and general periodicals.
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- Provides full image of back files of scholarly journals, several of which are related to literature. Back files cover from the FIRST VOLUME of the title to within three to five years of the current date. (The most recent three to five years are generally not included.)
- View list of journals for Language and Literature.
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- Provides fulltext back to the first issue of nearly 400 journals
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- Includes the full image of many journals published by university presses. A few go back to 1993 but many begin later in the 1990's or even the current year.
- View list of journals for Language and Literature.
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- Provides the fulltext of articles in The Times (London) from 1785-1985.
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New York Times (1851 to 3 years ago)
- Provides the fulltext of articles in the New York Times from 1851 to three years ago.
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Primary Sources & Early Books
Early American Imprints (Series I) & Evans Digital Archives (Series II)
- Provides digitized texts for all books and some additional materials known to be published in America from the first one in 1639-1800 (Series I) and 1801-1819 (Series II).
- Includes all titles from Charles Evans’ American Bibliography and Roger Bristol’s Supplement to Evans as well as approximately 1,200 publications discovered after the publication of Evans and Bristol. Series II includes titles from Shaw-Shoemaker's American Imprints.
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America's Historical Newspapers
- Full text of hundreds of newspapers published from 1690-1879.
- Includes only a few papers at the present time; text will be added on an ongoing basis.
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- Provides digitized texts of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English books printed in other countries.
- Covers 1450-1700.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Provides digitized texts for all books and some other materials known to be published in the British Isles, North America, and British territories during the eighteenth century.
- Includes all titles published between 1701-1800
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North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
- Provides fulltext of diaries and letters written from 1675 to 1950.
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- Provides fulltext for over 230 works written by English and American women from 1500 to 1830.
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American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900
- Provides the digitized text of approximately 1,100 magazines and journals, including 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800; more than 900 titles from the first 60 years of the nineteenth century; and 118 periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865), Reconstruction (1865-1877), and the remaining years through 1900
- Includes all types of magazines and journals published in America.
- List of magazine and journal titles
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British Periodicals, 1680s through 1930s
- Provides the digitized text of many British periodicals from the origin of magazines in the 1680s through the Victorian period and into the early 1930s. The database is “in process” with new fulltext being added regularly.
- Includes all types of magazines and journals published in England.
- List of magazine and journal titles with dates of coverage
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- Literature collections provide the fulltext of poetry. The following databases are available.
- 20th Century African-American Poetry (1901-1998) -- A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the 20th century
- 20th Century American Poetry -- A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early 20th century to the present.
- 20th Century English Poetry -- A database of modern and contemporary English poetry from 1900 to present.
- African-American Poetry (1750-1900) -- Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- American Poetry (1600-1900) -- Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
- English Poetry (600-1900) -- Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
- Faber Poetry Library -- A collection of some of the most influential poets of the 20th century.
- A searchable index to archives and manuscript holdings in several thousand U.S. repositories and 100,000 special collections in libraries and private holdings.
- Contains a searchable directory of the repositories.
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Guides to Authors, Plots, & Brief Literary Criticism
- Provides the fulltext of biographical and critical materials from Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography and portions from Contemporary Literary Criticism and other Gale literary criticism sets covering the classical period to the present; also provides links to author websites.
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Magill on Authors, Magill on Literature
- Provides plot summaries and brief critical surveys of thousands of literary works, as well as brief biographical information about the writers.
- Provides the texts of many Salem Press print volumes such as Masterplots (including various specialty Masterplots series), Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill’s Literary Annual, the Magill critical surveys of Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, World Philosophers and Their Works, and more.
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Related Resources (History, Education, Humanities)
America: History and Life (1964 to present)
- Indexes and abstracts, journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture. The best source for finding journal articles on United States and Canadian history. Also useful for architectural history; cultural history including music, art, theatre; history of ethnic groups; and topics in American Literature. Includes book reviews.
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Arts and Humanities Search (1980 to present)
- A citation index to many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Indexes references in the bibliographies of articles to track a writer's work as cited by others. Provides access to keywords in the title of articles.
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Education Full Text (1984 to present)
- Indexes and abstracts 465 education journals.
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ERIC (education) (1966 to present)
- Provides citations and abstracts to all aspects of educational research and resources taken from professional journals and education related reports, conference proceedings and other non-journal literature (ERIC Documents).
- Particularly useful for the teaching of language and literature.
- Fulltext available for many ERIC documents
- More info on ERIC via EBSCO
Historical Abstracts (1967 to present)
- Indexes journals and abstracts, books, and dissertations on modern history (1450 - present) for all regions of the world except the U.S. and Canada. Also useful for social and political history as they are related to literature.
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Humanities and Social Science Retrospective (1907-1984)
- Indexes the core scholarly journals in the humanities -- including language and literature -- and social sciences.
- Based on the following print titles: International Index, Social Sciences and Humanities Index, Humanities Index, and Social Sciences Index.
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Iter (1842 to present)
- Indexes books and over 600 journals covering the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700)
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Dissertations
Dissertation Abstracts (1861 to present)
- Indexes all dissertations accepted at U.S. colleges and universities; some theses are included as are dissertations from a few foreign universities.
- Abstracts are included since 1980.
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Dissertations & Theses@UNCG (1980 to present)
- Provides the full text of UNCG dissertations published from 1997 to the present and theses from 2005 to the present.
- A few earlier dissertations also appear in full text.
- Provides abstracts of works between 1980 and 1996
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
Oxford English Dictionary- Contains the information from the last 20-volume print edition (1989) and its 3-volume supplements (1993 and 1997) as well as draft material for the 3d edition; is searchable by full text (entry, text of definitions, quotations, illustrating usage).
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- Provides access to 100 dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press. Terms can be searched as main entries or in the fulltext of articles and definitions. Names of persons and dates can also be searched.
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Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
- Includes 13,000 poems in full-text 250,000 citations to poems.
- Also provides commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, and a glossary of terms.
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Biographies
- Provides full-text biographical information on deceased figures from American history who have lived since 1450.
- Each entry contains a bibliography which includes citations for primary sources.
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Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford)
- Provides full-text biographical information on deceased figures from the UK and the British Commonwealth who have lived since the 4th century BC.
- Each entry contains a bibliography which includes citations for primary sources, as well as the location of any archives, existing likenesses, and, in some cases, wealth at death.
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- Provides the fulltext of biographical and critical materials from Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography and portions from Contemporary Literary Criticism and other Gale literary criticism sets covering the classical period to the present; also provides links to author websites.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Indexes more than 3,700 volumes covering 12.7 million biographical sketches of contemporary and historical persons.
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Library Catalogs
British Library General Catalogue
- An online catalog of most of the printed materials cataloged and owned by the British Library.
British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
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An online catalog of most of the manuscripts owned by the British Library.
- A catalog for the holdings of most academic and public libraries primarily in the US, with some foreign countries as well. Includes books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, films, videos, and maps in print, microform, and electronic format. Does not index individual periodical articles.
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Book Reviews
- Provides access to book reviews appearing in general and discipline specific databases; also provides listings of print indexes for book reviews.
For additional lists of databases in other relevant disciplines such as History, Biography, Classical Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies, choose the discipline from Databases.
English Resources
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