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English databases

 

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ONEsearch


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Primary databases

MLA International Bibliography
An index to scholarly research in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore produced by the Modern Language Association of America [More info]
 
Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information for more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors [More info]
 
OED Online
Online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world [More info]

More general databases with some coverage of English

Academic Search Premier
An all-purpose academic database covering many disciplines [More info]
 
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Search for articles from scholarly journals in communication, mass media, and related fields [More info]
 
Expanded Academic ASAP
A multidisciplinary database; a good starting point for many academic research topics [More info]
 
Arts & Humanities Citation Index [password required]
Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals [More info]
 
JSTOR
An archive of scholarly full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences [More info]
 
Project MUSE
Contains the full text of more than 120 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from a variety of publishers [More info]
 

E-Books and other resources

OED Online
Online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world [More info]
 
Collections of online encylopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.:
 
For additional resources, see our subject guide for English.