Language and Literature Databases

* database contains partial or complete full-image and/or full-text coverage of journal articles

MLA International Bibliography EBSCOhost 1926-
MLA International Bibliography is a database of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1926 and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select* Gale
Coverage of more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors including biographical information, literary criticism, and annotated bibliographies of sources for further study.

Project MUSE* John Hopkins University
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Arts & Humanities Search FirstSearch 1980-
Records referencing over 1300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.

JSTOR* years vary
Full-text of core journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Coverage includes the entirety of each journal with the exception of the current five years.

Asia Studies Humanities
This database brings together full-text articles and papers on Asia and the Pacific covering topics in the arts, culture, history, language, literature, philosophy and religion.

Biographical and Reference Databases

Contemporary Authors Gale
Biographic details on 100,000 20th century novelists, playwrights, poets, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters from around the world.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs trace to their sources in ancient and modern literature. Based on the tenth edition, 1911.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.

Oxford Reference Online
A multidisciplinary online reference collection containing over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works including a broad range of titles from the Oxford Companion Series published by Oxford University Press. The entire collection is fully-indexed and cross-searchable.

Primary Sources

Defining Gender 1450-1910 Adam Matthew Digital
Defining Gender provides access to a vast body of original source material from a wide range of original sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature. Topics covered include conduct and politeness, domesticity and the family, consumption and leisure, education and sensibility and the body.

Eighteenth Century Journals II Adam Matthew
Collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals from the Harry Ransom Research Center. Topics covered include literature, the theatre, the origins and rise of Romanticism, politics, revolution and rebellion, social issues, gender, society life, religion and the influence of the Press.

Empire Online Adam Matthew Digital
Contains primary sources spanning five centuries from a translation of Columbus's 1492 voyage to "21st Century works on Imperialism"; thousands of images of unique source material including maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings and rare books. All items are included in their entirety and the sources encourage multiple viewpoints. Includes detailed indexing that enables the sources to be explored in a variety of ways (by period, by date, by person and subject).

Everyday Life and Women in America Adam Matthew Digital
This is a resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history, providing access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. The collection is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature, offering vivid insights into the daily lives of women and men, as well as emphasizing contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

Women Writers Online*
An online text database of the Women Writers Project and Brown University. Coverage includes texts written between 1400 and 1850.

Selected General Databases

Academic OneFile*
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

WilsonWeb OmniFile Full Text Mega* H.W. Wilson 1982-
Contains indexing, abstracting, and full-text for everything that was in Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences Index, and Wilson Business Index. In addition, the Mega edition contains Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text.