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General Databases
Academic OneFile (formerly ArticleFinder)
A great place to start looking for journal articles. Academic OneFile is a multidisciplinary database containing articles from many areas. Search a specialized database for more in-depth coverage of articles in English Literature.
Biography Resource Center
This database contains biographies from reference sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
British Periodicals Online
British Periodicals Online consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
Project Muse
Provides full text to nearly 200 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Research Library Complete
Similar to Academic OneFile. Also multidisciplinary, search here before you move on to a specialized database.
Lexis Nexis Academic
Full-text access to business, legal, news, medical, and reference information.
English Literature Databases
MLA Bibliography
Indexes books, periodical articles, and dissertations published from 1963 to the present concerning literature, folklore, linguistics, modern languages, and the dramatic arts.
ABELL
The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature is part of the LION database and contains records of literary criticisms from books, periodical articles, and dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. Full text links are available to articles from 70 literature journals.
JSTOR
An archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.
Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)
Full-text of 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Includes most titles published in the United Kingdom during this period as well as a number of items published in the Americas.
Evans Digital Collection
A full-text, multidisciplinary image collection of every extant document published in the United States between 1639 and 1800.
Women Writers Online
Collection of searchable online texts from 1400 to 1850 compiled by the Women Writers Project at Brown University.
ITER
Bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature, books, reviews, and reference works pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700).
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
This database contains over 100,000 titles published from 1474-1800 in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
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ENGLISH LITERATURE REFERENCE SOURCES
LION
Full text of English poetry (8th century to present), American poetry (1603 to present), English fiction (16th century to 19th century), English drama (1280 to 1915), and American drama (1762 to 1860). Also includes selected criticism and reference works, biographies and bibliographies for over 1350 authors, text-based study guides, and links to other web resources.
Literature Resource Center
Literature reference database rich with biographical, bibliographical, and critical content about authors from all time periods and genres. Includes screenwriters.
Oxford English Dictionary
Online guide to meanings, histories, and pronunciations of present and past words in the English language.
Studies in Irish Literature
Electronic versions of Dictionary of Irish Literature, Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, and Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook.
Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies
A print bibliography of resources on English and American literature; a great book for guidance on sources for your research.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
dynamic online resource for researching, teaching and studying in the philosophy arena and related disciplines.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
English Department at Bucknell
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT BUCKNELL