Literature & Language
American Periodicals Series 
Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900.
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Année Philologique
L'Annee philologique contains citations and abstracts covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity.
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Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 
ABELL contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world.
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ARTFL
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language covering nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to non-fiction prose and technical writing.
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities (available in ISI Web of Science).
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Asian American Drama
Brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information.
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Author Pseudonyms
AKA contains a browsable list of over 11,000 entries of author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms de plume, maiden names, etc.
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Bartleby.com
Project Bartleby is a full text database of quotations, verse, and reference works from over 100 sources.
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BEOnline Plus
Free Internet resources selected and annotated by The Library
of Congress reference staff
- Business and Economics Web sites
- Humanities and other Social Sciences Web sites available from Alcove 9
- International Resources Web sites available from Portals to the World
- Science and Technology Web sites
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Bibliographic Index Plus
Cumulative bibliography for information in all areas of the humanities and social sciences as well as science and technology.
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Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
German language index of (primarily) German language periodicals covering all aspects of German language and literature.
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Bibliography of Collective Biographies of Women
An annotated bibliography of the more than 930 books published in English between 1830 and 1940 that collect three or more women's biographies in narrative form.
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Bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
BONIS is a selective rather than exhaustive list of noteworthy editions, monographs, articles and reviews dealing with Old Norse philology (literature, language and history).
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Book Review Digest Plus
Indexes reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books for adults and children from periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews.
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Cambridge History of English and American Literature
The Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.
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Camelot Project
Database of Arthurian full texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information.
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CESAR
Details of the plays, people and performance spaces that graced French theatre during the 17th and 18th centuries, from the dawn of the age of public playhouses to the French Revolution.
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Chicago Manual of Style Online
CMOS provides the rules for editing and publishing - punctuation, italicizing, bolding, capitalization, tables - for American English grammar, usage, and document preparation.
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Contemporary Authors
Provides biographical and bibliographical references on modern authors, including those who were active prior to 1960 and whose works continue to influence contemporary literature (available in Gale's Biography Resource Center).
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Credo Reference : Literature, Language & Quotations
Includes the full text of over 2 dozen reference sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations.
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Database of British Fiction 1800–1829
Contains bibliographical records for over 2,000 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors.
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Deutsche Lyrik
Die Deutsche Lyrik ( German Lyric Poetry ) is a German language database of German poetry containing the complete works of one hundred poets, from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.
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Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker
Contains the full text to works by more than thirty German authors, allowing users to cross-search an outstanding corpus of classic texts.
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E-Journals in Languages & Literatures
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Languages & Literatures.
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Early American Imprints, Series I Evans 1639-1800
Full-text of more than 36,000 printed works covering American history and literature thru the colonial period up to the eighteenth century.
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Early American Imprints, Series II Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
Shaw-Shoemaker Early American Imprints provides the full-text to 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides covering all aspects of American life in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
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Early British Periodicals
Contains the full text of hundreds of periodicals detailing everyday British life from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
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Early English Books Online
EEBO contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
ECCO contains digital images of 150,000 books, broadsides, pamphlets, sermons, sheet music, and ephemera published during the 18th Century.
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Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
Lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.
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English Prose Drama Database
EProseD contains more than 1,600 plays written by more than 350 different authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century.
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English Short Title Catalogue
The English Short Title Catalog - ESTC - contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period.
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Essay and General Literature Index
Cites 65,000 essays and articles contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections.
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Essay and Speech Finder
Indexes full-text essays, speeches, and discursive writing.
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Ethnologue
The searchable, Web version of "Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 14th Edition" presents descriptions of over 6,800 languages which have been identified world-wide, and organized alphabetically by primary name under the country of the main population.
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Fiction Catalog & Archive
Public Library Core Collection: Fiction delivers information on thousands of works of fiction for adults, either written in or translated into English.
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Fiction Connection
A readers’ advisory tool to identify fiction and biography books published in the United States.
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FRANCIS
The International Humanities and Social Studies database covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%).
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Gender Inn
A searchable database providing access to over 8,300 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature.
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Glossary of Literary Terms
Alphabetical list of commonly found terms in literature.
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Granger's World of Poetry
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry is the definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies.
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Hand Press Book
Union catalog of European printing from the 15th century to the 1830s containing records of the hand-press period (c 1455-1830).
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Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective
Indexes all aspects of the humanities and social sciences from over 1,200 North American and European periodicals.
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Humanities Full Text
Wilson Humanities Abstracts covers over 465 sources in archaeology, food, philosophy, art, journalism, religion, classics, linguistics, space, film, music, world history, folklore, performing arts, and world literature.
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Informaworld
Multidisciplinary database hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
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International Bibliography of Book Reviews
IBR contains over 990,000 entries about book reviews from over 6 thousand academic journals mainly in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Iter Gateway to the Renaissance and Middle Ages
Covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
A full-text searchable database of articles on individual literary critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
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Lexicon of Linguistics
Search for linguistic terms or concepts by keyword, or browse through the alphabetic list.
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Linguistic Bibliography
BLonline covers linguistic publications from all disciplines and on languages of the world.
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Literary History
Literaryhistory is an index to over 7,000 free scholarly and critical articles, covering more than 300 English and American authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Literature Resource Center
LRC provides full text access to bibliographical and biographical information, literary criticism, and contextual information covering more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers.
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Literature, Arts & Medicine Database
An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art developed as a resource in medical humanities.
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Literature.Org
The Online Literature Library contains the full text of over 100 classic works by dozens of authors.
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LitFinder
Provides access to thousands of Poems, Stories, Essays, Speeches and Plays, many in full text.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals
The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.
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MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of scholarly research in over 4,000 journals and series pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, including film studies.
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Nineteenth Century
Searchable database of more than 25,000 separate titles of English-language works on microfiche first published between 1801-1900 and available at the Library of Congress.
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories contains more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories.
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Online Archive of California
Contains about 1,000 texts, including transcripts of oral histories, personal narratives, letters, press releases, newspaper articles, and other types of documents.
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Oxford African American Studies Center
AASC contains over 7,500 articles as well as primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and timelines covering the African American experience.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The OED is an historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day.
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Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.
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Perseus Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece
A multimedia interactive database designed to facilitate the study of archaic and classical Greece and to expand the ways in which ancient Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology can be examined.
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Play Index
Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.
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Poem Finder
Use to locate close to one million poems, more than 100,000 in full-text.
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Poesie francaise
Database of French poetry from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.
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Quotations (Fagan Finder)
Search for quotations, proverbs, sayings, maxims, amorphisms, slogans, and clichés.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
Online index to over 60,000 historical and critical articles, books, news reports, obituaries, motion picture reviews and other material about science fiction, fantasy and horror.
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Shakespeare in Quarto
Contains the full text of the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642.
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Short Story Index
Indexes more than 84,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, as well as an additional 12,000 stories from periodicals.
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SSSL Bibliography
The SSSL Bibliography is an annotated checklist of scholarship on over 1,000 writers (novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, diarists) associated with the American South.
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Story and Play Finder
Provides thousands of full-text plays and short stories from classics to the most contemporary.
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Studies in Bibliography
Presents a wide range of full text scholarly articles on bibliography, textual criticism, printing history, and book and manuscript study.
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Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
TOCS - IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of over 180 Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals.
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Victorian Bibliography
Lists noteworthy publications (including articles, books, and reviews) that have a bearing on the Victorian period.
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Walt Whitman Archive
Provides online both facsimile and e-text versions of all the editions of Leaves of Grass as well as other poetry manuscripts.
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Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Author index to articles published in the 19th century, including biographical information, pseudonyms used, and bibliography of articles written.
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William Blake Archive
The Blake Archive contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of 27 copies of 16 of Blake's 19 illuminated works.
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Windows on the Past
Grouping of selected historical materials hosted by the Cornell University Library which have been digitally scanned and are available for online browsing and searching.
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World Shakespeare Bibliography
Annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions,audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare.
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Wright American Fiction, 1851 - 1875
Collection of 19th century American fiction, including works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time.
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