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MLA Intl. Bibliography Consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. It provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

Project Muse (full text)
Managed by Johns Hopkins University this database offers full text coverage of more than 150 journals published by university presses, many of them relevant to film. Coverage dates back to 1993.

Ebsco Host (full text) An easy to use source for full text materials. However, because it is extremely interdisciplinary its coverage of literary topics is limited. It is best used in relation to widely researched areas.

Philosophers Index For those aspects of literary theory that expand into questions also relating to the philosophy of language this index, dating back to 1940, is an excellent source of journal articles as well as book articles.

JSTOR Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals.The Language & Literature Collection is unique in both scope and content. The journals span the literary cultures of many different countries, and contain articles in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and Russian. Additionally, this Collection offers insight into the interests of literary scholars in the first half of the twentieth century as well as core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last 30 years, such as Women's Literature.

PCI Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) is an electronic index to millions of articles published in 4,184 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. PCI is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 200 years.

ArticlesFirst This periodical index covers more than 12,500 journals in disciplines throughout the curriculum. It contains information dating back to 1990 and is updated every day.

Literature Research Center
Meant primarily for beginners this amalgamation of resources provides short biographies, bibliographies and some critical analysis of the works of 20,000 authors from various periods and genres of literature.

Dissertation Abstracts
The definitive source for finding references to dissertations. It dates back to 1861 and allows users to access the full text of dissertations written at the University of Utah, Utah State University and Brigham Young University after 1997.

Early English Books Online
This database contains the texts of approximately 125,000 books published between 1450 and 1700. The subjects covered are literature, philosophy, religion, science, history, military affairs etc. It's updated daily since it is a work in progress.

Middle English Compendium
This is the electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary in addition to a hyperbibliography of the works cited in the Dictionary as well as the full text of a growing list of these works. The period covered is 1100 to 1500.

Women Writers Online
A database containing the full text of over 200 pre-Victorian (published before 1830) works by women. These include fiction, poetry, drama and works of non-fiction as well.

Victorian Women Writer's Online
Here you'll find SGML encoded transcriptions of texts by women writing in the late Victorian period. These include poetry, drama, anthologies etc.

Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online
A solid resource for identifying poetry. It contains the full text of 8500 poems as well as citations for 90,000 poems and the anthologies where they can be found.

Oxford English Dictionary
The OED is the final arbiter on all matters relating to definition. Unlike many other dictionaries it illustrates meanings with quotations from classical works of the period and traces historical changes in definitions and usage.

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue: Series I and II – 1801 - 1870
Aims at a complete listing of British books published between 1801 and 1870. These are taken to include all books published in Britain , its colonies and the US , all books published in English and all translations from English.

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue: Series III – 1871 – 1919
Aims at a complete listing of British books published between 1871 and 1919. These are taken to include all books published in Britain, its colonies and the US, all books published in English and all translations from English.

Lit Finder
Search to find poems, short stories and essays by keyword, genre and subject. Some links to full text online. Accessed only within the Library.

Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
Full text of the TLS from 1902 until the most recent ten years. Almost 250,000 reviews, letters, poems, essays by leading figures in the humanities and other disciplines as well. Searchable by author, subject heading or book title.

Online Books Page
Over 15,000 online books in English. Searchable by author, title and subject.

Voice of the Shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu
An extremely reliable meta-site with links to research materials in all of the disciplines that make up the humanities. It's updated regularly.

Project Gutenberg http://www.promo.net/pg/
This site makes available a steadily growing number of texts in their entirety. Works consist of what the organizers have defined as light reading, classical works of literature etc. and reference works. All items were originally published prior to 1923.

The Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org
A scholarly site with links to information of almost any kind relating to the Victorian period. It is multi-disciplinary.

Celebration of Women Writers http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Operated by the University of Pennsylvania this site provides information on numerous female writers. In addition to biographical and bibliographical information there are also links to full text books. Searchable by nationality, historical period and author names.

Humbul Humanties Web http://www.humbul.ac.uk/
Another meta-site with links to information in many of the disciplines that make up the humanities.

The Poetry Archives http://www.emule.com/poetry/index.cgi
Maintained by students this is an easy to use site containing 3500 (and expanding) full text poems by many of the major poets in English.

Literary Theory Resources http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/theory.html
This is a site with links to scholarly information pertaining to English and American literature. The links are organized by broad categories. There is also a link for materials dealing with literary theory.

Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English http://www.postcolonialweb.org
Links to scholarly materials relating to the literature of those areas that were once a part of the British empire. This literature is examined from a variety of contexts including the historical and the religious. Also links for the field of postcolonial theory.

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