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The following databases contain a wealth of information on literary figures and their works:
MLA
International Bibliography
This is the primary database for literary research and indexes scholarly articles
in literary journals, books and dissertations. Covers literature, language,
linguistics and folklore. Check CONSULS to see if we own the publication cited.
LION
(Literature Online)
LION is a fully
searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry,
drama and prose, 136 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism
and reference resources.
Literary Reference Center (Ebsco) - Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time periods. LRC combines information from major reference works, books, literary journals, and more. Some articles are available in full-text.
Gale's
Literature Resource Center
Full-text author biographies, critical essays, and more drawn from several
Gale resources, including Contemporary Authors, the Dictionary of Literary
Biography and the Literary Criticism sets.
Humanities
International Complete
Covers journals, books and other sources in the humanities. Indexes and abstracts
over 1,700 journals.
JSTOR
Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in all fields.
Project
Muse
Contains full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences
and mathematics.
Essay
and General Literature Index
An index to essays that appear in collections focusing on the social sciences
and the humanities.
Wilson
Select Plus
Indexes/abstracts articles in the humanities, including philosophy, folklore,
linguistics, archeology, film, religion, and literature. Includes film and
book reviews.
Academic
Search Premier
EBSCOHost's Academic Search Premier indexes magazine and journal articles,
many of which are available full text. Over 300 literary journals are indexed.
It is possible to search for peer-reviewed journal articles or for those that
contain the full text of the article. It is also possible to search for articles
from specific journals.
Granger's
World of Poetry Online
Contains poetry citations, poems in full text, scholarly commentary on poems
and poets, biographical and bibliographical information and a glossary of
poetic terms.
Expanded
Academic Index (ASAP)
Periodicals covering all academic concentrations.
Dissertation
Abstracts Online
Contains abstracts of dissertations on a wide range of academic subjects,
including literature. 1861-present.
Digital Dissertations provides more than 2 million entries to doctoral dissertations and masters' theses. More than 600,000 are available in native or PDF formats for immediate free download.
GenderWatch
This is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters,
regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted
to women's and gender issues. Information on women authors and their books
can be found here.
Asian
American Drama
Contains 100s of plays by Asian Americans with detailed information on related
productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Black
Drama - 1850 to present
Information in 1000+ plays, related productions, theaters, production companies,
selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the
plays.
British
and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
The experience of over 400 women, as revealed in approximately 80,000 pages
of diqaries and letters.
Scottish
Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extrensive contemporary critical reviews,
and other material..
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