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Best Databases for English
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) (1926+)Indexes critical literary and language scholarship in journals and serials published worldwide.
Other Databases for English
- American Periodicals (ProQuest) (1741-1940)
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A full text collection of American magazines and journals. - CompPileAn inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse studies.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online (DLB) (Gale)provides authoritative information while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. This one-stop resource provides access to all volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography series (more than 360 vols.), the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series (19 vols.) and the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook (23 vols.) a total of more than 400 volumes and 185,000 pages.
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) (ProQuest)
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Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Available on the ProQuest platform. The Chadwyck Healey platform is no longer available. - Essay & General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson) (1984+)a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
See also Essay & General Literature Index Retrospective (1900-1984) - America's Historical Imprints (NewsBank/Readex) (1639-1922)- American Broadsides & Ephemera, Series I
- American Civil War Collection 1860-1922
- American Pamphlets, Series I, 1820-1922
- American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement, 1670-1800
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement, 1801-1819 - JSTORFull text of research journals and eBooks from numerous publishers. For most of the journal content, we can access all but the 3 to 5 most recent years of the journal.
- Literature Criticism Online (Gale)Excerpts and full text of articles and essays providing critical discussion of authors and their works.
- Literature Resource Center (Gale)Information on literary figures from all time periods of writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Includes the Dictionary Of Literary Biography.
- LitFinder (Gale)Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains over 150,000 full-text works and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
- MagillOnLiterature Plus (EBSCOhost)Critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature: long fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
- OED: Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press)"The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world."
The 20-volume print set is available in the Main Library Reference -- PE1625.M7 1989. - Oxford Scholarship OnlineAccess to the full text of over 4,000 Oxford monographs in Biology, Business & Management, Classical Studies, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health & Epidemiology, Religion, and Social Work
- Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University)a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300+ high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.
- Women Writers Project (Northeastern University) (1500-1800)Full text of Pre-Victorian early modern women's writing. Currently has the electronic full text of over 200 texts from 1526 through 1850, a subset of which is Renaissance writers. The database will continue to grow in the coming years.
