English Indexes and Databases by Topic
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[edit] Criticism
MLA International Bibliography
- Index of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. more
Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Full-text database of biographies and criticism of major contemporary works.
- Provides access to some full-text journal articles, bibliographic citations from the MLA International Bibliography and ABELL (the MHRA's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature). more
- Offers full text access to journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers and covers, among other fields, literature and criticism. more
- Provides access to several collections of backfiles of scholarly publications covering the humanities. more
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Iter indexes over 630 scholarly journals, covering articles, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). more
- Integrates searching for literary information including critical analyses, biographies,and bibliographies for more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes access to Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's Author Series. more
- A master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group. more
- The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. more
[edit] Primary Sources
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides full text of significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century. more
- Contains over 210,000 full-texts of English and American poems, plays, and novels including rare texts and all folio versions of Shakespeare's works in fully searchable format. more
- Contains Poem finder, an international collection of poetry featuring poems, poem citations, and excerpts; Story finder, an online collection of short stories from the classic to the most contemporary, featuring thousands of full-text short stories, plus explanations of stories; and Essay finder, a collection of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century. more
- Covering American history and literature through the colonial period up to the eighteenth century, this database is a full-text digitization of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800). more
- Full text access to texts by pre-Victorian women writers. more
- Over 200 digitally recorded works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama from the ancient world to twentieth century classics. Also includes text for selected works. more
[edit] Author Biographies
- Draws on a database of authors and author information that grows with every monthly release of the service: currently, over 17,000 authors are included, of over 100 different nationalities. more
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- OXNB is an illustrated collection of 50,000 especially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to 2000. more
Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Essays provide biographical information as well as critical response of authors from all eras and genres.
- Integrates searching for literary information including critical analyses, biographies,and bibliographies for more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes access to Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's Author Series. more
- A master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group. more
Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Full-text database of biographies and criticism of major contemporary works.
- A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world.
[edit] Linguistics and Language
MLA International Bibliography
- Index of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. more
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- Abstracts of articles on linguistics and language from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide. more
[edit] Reference Resources
OED (Oxford English Dictionary)
- Contains the complete 2nd ed., its three-volume Additions series, and also draft material from the revision programe, which represents the latest progress towards the 3rd ed. more
- Provides access and interconnectivity between the Middle English Dictionary and the HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse based on the bibliographies of the Middle English Dictionary. more
- Provides access to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, Webster's Dictionary, Shakespeare Glossary, and the King James Bible. more
Oxford Reference Online Premium
- Contains the texts of more than 100 reference titles published by Oxford University Press as well as the Oxford Companions Series in a single cross-searchable resource. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, etc. more
MLA International Bibliography
- Lists over 3,700 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication. more