The following databases contain a wealth of information on literary figures and their works:
American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) is an ongoing project to digitize and thoroughly index 1,000 film scripts.
Digital Dissertations
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. Coverage 1861-current.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica
The electronic equivalent of the print encyclopedia with internet links.
Essay
and General Literature Index
An index to essays that appear in collections focusing on the social sciences
and the humanities.
Expanded
Academic Index (ASAP)
Periodicals covering all academic concentrations.
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.
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.
JSTOR
Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in all fields.
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.
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.
New
York Times Historical Archives
Contains the full-text of New York Times from 1851-to 2001 (rolling window).
Project
Muse
Contains full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences
and mathematics.
Wilson
Select Plus
Indexes/abstracts articles in the humanities, including philosophy, folklore,
linguistics, archeology, film, religion, and literature. Includes film and
book reviews.
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