English databases
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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]
- Literature Resource Center [trial access expires 12/8/2009]
- A current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world. Includes full-text articles from more than 360 academic journals and literary magazines; book reviews; biographical essays; the full text of many poems and short stories; and more!
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.:
- Credo Reference: Language | Literature | Dictionaries & Thesauri [More info]
- NetLibrary Reference Center: Literature | Language & Linguistics | [More info]
- Oxford Reference Online: Literature | English Language Reference | Dictionaries & Thesauri [More info]
- For additional resources, see our subject guide for English.