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• ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)
  List books, monographs, journal articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world. 1920-current.
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  Consists of 77 volumes beginning in 1920 and issued annually in printed volumes. Subject areas covered by ABELL include:

  • English Language - including syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics and dialectology
  • English Literature - including poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory and studies of individual authors
  • Bibliography - including manuscript studies, textual studies and the history of publishing
  • Traditional culture of the English-speaking world including custom, belief, narrative, song, dance and material culture

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• Academic Search Premier
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).
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  Topics include news and current events, politics, literature, communication science, business, medicine, psychology, the arts, and many more.

  • Summaries of articles in over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
  • Full-text of articles in over 4,000 journals
  • Summaries of scholarly articles in over 6,000 journals
  • Full-text of scholarly articles in over 3,000 journals

  While subject-specific databases may offer more depth, this one may be more up-to-date.

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• American Periodicals Series 1740-1900
  Digitized images of over 1,000 American magazines and journals published between 1741-1900. Titles range from the scientific journal Medical Repository to Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal. 1740-1900.
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  Contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

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• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  Scholarly journal articles in arts and humanities. Includes some full-text. From Web of Science. More comprehensive searching than FirstSearch. 1994- current.
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  Subjects covered include:

  • Archaeology
  • Art & Architecture
  • Classics
  • Dance
  • Folklore
  • History
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Literature & Literary Reviews
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Radio, Television, & Film
  • Religion
  • Theater

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• Cambridge Collections Online (CCO)
  Full-text of over 200 Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics; and Philosophy, Religion and Culture. Includes over 2,200 essays on these topics. varies.
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  Topics include Plato, Luther, Jane Austen, Tom Stoppard, Stravinsky, the French Novel, and Jewish American Literature. Access

  • The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
  • The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture

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• Chaucer: Life and Times
  Includes the complete works of Chaucer with modern translations and glossary, critical commentary, historical information, extensive graphics, and audio clips in Middle English. Historical.
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• Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola
  Spanish language dictionary on CD-Rom. Current.
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• Dictionary of Old English Corpus
  Complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. Comprises over 3,000 different texts. 428-1100 (approx.).
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  The Corpus comprises over 3000 different texts, each of which has: a unique text number, allocated by the DOE project; a Cameron number (assigned in Cameron "Plan for the Dictionary of Old English"); a 'short title', used in the published microfiche concordance; and a 'short short title' used to ideed microfiche concordance; and a 'short short title' used to identify the text in the "Dictionary of Old English".
• Iter
  Summarizes 250,000 articles and reviews published in 375 medieval and renaissance journals. articles about 400-1700 .
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  Iter presents a bibliography of approximately 250,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 375 medieval and renaissance journal titles. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, this powerful research tool will be of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
• JSTOR
  Essential scholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology. Some back to early 1900s; most recent 2-5 years not available.
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  Subjects include:

  • African American Studies
  • African Studies
  • American Indian Studies
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture & Architectural History
  • Art & Art History
  • Asian Studies
  • Botany
  • Business
  • Classical Studies
  • Ecology
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Feminist & Women's Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Finance
  • Folklore
  • General Science
  • Geography
  • History
  • History of Science & Technology
  • Language & Literature
  • Latin American Studies
  • Law
  • Mathematics
  • Middle East Studies
  • Music
  • Performing Arts
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Population Studies
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy & Administration
  • Religion
  • Slavic Studies
  • Sociology
  • Statistics

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• Literature Resource Center
  Biographical essays on more than 100,000 authors and criticism and interpretation of plays, novels, poetry and short stories.

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  • Gale Literature Resource Center

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  The Resource Center includes Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, plus selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's Literature Criticism and For Students Series, which are comprised of Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

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• Middle English Compendium
  Electronic Middle English Dictionary and HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse. Lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500.
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• MLA International Bibliography
  Scholarly articles in literature and linguistics. Indexes over 6,000 national and international journals, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. From the Modern Language Association. 1926-current; selective coverage 1886-.
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  Subjects include:

  • Literature and drama (English and world)
  • Linguistics
  • Literary Theory
  • Folklore
  • Rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy

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• MLA Periodicals Directory
  Information on journals and series on the MLA Master List of Periodicals. current.
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  Information gathered by staff of the Modern Language Association (MLA) with the cooperation of MLA bibliographers and the editors represented in these listings. Entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.

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• Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog
  The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog is a comprehensive catalogue and union list of all of the books published in Great Britain. 1801-1919.
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• Opera del Vocabolario Italiano
  Contains 1,369 vernacular verse and prose texts dated prior to 1375 from early masters of Italian literature, as well as lesser known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. through 1375.
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• Project MUSE
  Full-text of over 200 journals in classics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, religion, and visual and performing arts.
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  Journals published by major university presses, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Subjects include:

  • Classics
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Film, Theater, and Performing Arts
  • History
  • Judaic Studies
  • Language
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Math
  • Music
  • Philosophy & Religion
  • Philosophy & Science
  • Politics

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• Reader's Guide Retrospective
  The most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. 1890-1982.
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  Journals covered include Time, Newsweek, and Life.

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• Samuel Johnson Dictionary of the English Language
  Full text of the 1st and 4th editions of the first English-language dictionary. Also includes digitized images of all original pages of both editions. 1755, 1773 (1st & 4th editions).
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  Software provides browsing and side-by-side comparison of the two editions.
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
  Extensive collection of ancient Greek texts, a canon of Greek authors and works, and a comprehensive database of known ancient Greek and Byzantine authors. 8th century B.C. to 1453 AD.
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  Created at the University of California.
• Women Writers Project
  Texts by pre-Victorian women writers. 1400-1850.
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  The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. The goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.

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• World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
  Summarizes books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media related to Shakespeare. 1962 to present.
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  Covers over eighty languages and represents every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia. Indexes several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings. What the Bibliography includes:

  • Books, articles, and dissertations entirely about Shakespeare;
  • Books, articles, and dissertations that include a substantial discussion of Shakespeare (e.g., books and dissertations that devote a chapter--or its equivalent--to Shakespeare);
  • Stage productions of Shakespeare's works by a professional or semiprofessional theatrical group (in listing personnel, only the following are recorded: those with speaking roles, translator, dramaturg, director, assistant director, and individuals responsible for sets, costumes, lighting, and music);
  • Reviews of books entirely or substantially about Shakespeare;
  • Reviews of professional or semiprofessional stage productions of Shakespeare's works;
  • Films of Shakespeare productions (in listing personnel, only the following are recorded: those with speaking roles, director, assistant director, and individuals responsible for sets, costumes, lighting, cinematography, and music);
  • New stage, musical, dance, and video adaptations of Shakespeare's works (in listing personnel, only the following are recorded: those with speaking roles, the author and/or translator of the adaptation, choreographer, composer, dramaturg, director, assistant director, and individuals responsible for sets, costumes, lighting, and music).

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• Wright American Fiction
  Full-text of works by Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe along with forgotten authors. 1851-1875.
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