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Databases for English and American Literature
Literary Criticism | Full-Text Works of Literature | Old and Middle English | Retrospective Indexes to Older Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers | Current Newspaper Indexes | Publishing History | Biographical Databases | Letters and Diaries | Databases Related to Specific Authors | Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Thesauri |
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Literary Criticism
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) (1920-)
- MLA International Bibliography (1926-)
- Academic OneFile (1980-)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Expanded Academic ASAP Plus (1980-)
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1842-)
- Literature Resource Center
- Project MUSE
- Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (free website)
Full-Text Works of Literature
- African Writers Series
- Black Drama
- Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975 on CD-ROM
- Caribbean Literature
- Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry
- Database of African-American Poetry on CD-ROM (1760-1900)
- Dictionary of Old English
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) (1475-1700)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online Search (ECCO) (1701-1800)
- The Gerritsen Collection: Women’s History Online, 1543-1945
- Literature Online
- Past Masters
- Women Writers Online
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Retrospective Indexes to Older Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers
Indexes to Periodicals (1660-1800)
- American Periodicals Series (APS) Online (begin pub. 1741-1900)
- America’s Historical Newspapers (1690s-1922)
- British Periodicals (1680s-1930s)
- English Literary Periodicals (1681-1914)
- London Times Index (1790-1980)
- The Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800)
- The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers on CD-ROM (1690-1783)
- Periodicals Index Online (1665-1995)
- The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)
Indexes to Periodicals (1800-1960)
Indexes for Single Titles
- Commentary Archive (1945-)
- Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830-1880)
- HarpWeek (1857-1912)
- Historical Index to The New York Times (1863-1905, 1913-1922)
- The Liberator (1831-1835)
- The Nation Digital Archive (1865-2002)
- New York Times (full text) (1851-2001)
- Official Index to the [London] Times (1906-1980)
- Palmer’s Index to the [London] Times (1790-1905)
- The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)
- Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (1902-1990)
- Wall Street Journal (1889-1998)
Indexes Covering Multiple Periodicals
- Accessible Archives
- AP Images (1847-)
- African American Newspapers: The Nineteenth Century
- APS (American Periodicals Series) Online (pubs. that began between 1741-1900)
- British Periodicals (1680s-1930s)
- C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
- The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (November 1860-April 1865)
- Early American Newspapers
- Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective (1907-1984)
- International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (1902-) (full text 1998-)
- International Medieval Bibliography Online
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1842-)
- JSTOR (varies with title)
- Making of America (1840-1900 Cornell University) (1850-1877 University of Michigan)
- Modernist Journals Project
- Nineteenth Century Masterfile (formerly Poole’s Plus) (19th/early 20thC)
- The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County (1819-1870)
- Periodicals Index Online (1665-1995)
- Readers’ Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
- Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 (1824-1900)
Current Newspaper Indexes
- Ethnic NewsWatch (1960-)
- LexisNexis Academic (varies with title)
- New York Review of Books (1963-)
- Philadelphia Inquirer (1987-, various formats explained when connect to this webpage)
- Wilmington News Journal (1999-)
- Wilmington News Journal Index (1988-)
- World News Connection (1996-)
Publishing History
- American Book Prices Current on CD-ROM (ABPC)
- ArchiveGrid
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Evans Digital Edition)
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) (1475-1700)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online Search (ECCO) (1701-1800)
- English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) (1473-1800)
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) (free website)
- Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC)
- The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 (CD-ROM 1081)
- WorldCat
- WorldCat Local
Biographical Databases
- American National Biography
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Biography Reference Bank
- Biography Resource Center
- Britannica Online
- The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945
- Literature Resource Center
- Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music)
Letters and Diaries
- American Civil War Digital Collections at the University of Delaware
- The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
- British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900
- In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narratives
- North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950
Databases Related to Specific Authors
- Past Masters: Anselm, Major Works
- Past Masters: Aquinas, Collected Works
- Past Masters: Aristotle, Complete Works
- Past Masters: Augustine, Works
- Past Masters: Austen, Jane, Letters
- Past Masters: Bentham: Coorespondence
- Past Masters: Bentham: Works
- Past Masters: Brontë, Charlotte, Letters
- Past Masters: Coleridge: Collected Letters
- Past Masters: Darwin, Works
- Past Masters: Dickens: Letters
- Past Masters: Hegel: Werke II
- Past Masters: Kant: Hauptwerke
- Past Masters: Plato, Collected Dialogues
- Past Masters: Pope, Correspondence
- Past Masters: The Romantic Age
- Past Masters: Shelley, Mary: Journals
- Past Masters: Shelley, Mary: Novels and Selected Works
- Past Masters: Swift, Jonathan, Correspondence
- Past Masters: Wittgenstein, Collected Works
- Past Masters: Wittgenstein, Nachlass
- Past Masters: Wittgenstein, Texts and Contexts
- Past Masters: The Wordsworths, Collected Letters
- Past Masters: Yeats, Collected Letters
- Samuel Johnson & James Boswell (CD-ROM 589)
- The Wife of Bath’s Prologue (CD-ROM 564)
- World Shakespeare Bibliography (CD-ROM 874)
Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias, and Thesauri
- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition with 2006 update (via Credo Reference)
- Bloomsbury Dictionary of Myth (via Credo Reference)
- Britannica Online
- Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, 1993 (via Credo Reference)
- The Cambridge Guide to Theatre (via Credo Reference)
- The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English (via Credo Reference)
- The Chicago Manual of Style Online
- The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (via Credo Reference)
- The Columbia Encyclopedia (via Credo Reference)
- Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature (via Credo Reference)
- Credo Reference (via Credo Reference)
- Dictionary of Shakespeare, Peter Collin Publishing (via Credo Reference)
- The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (via Credo Reference)
- The Holy Bible, King James Version, Cambridge University Press (via Credo Reference)
- Macmillan Dictionary of the Bible (via Credo Reference)
- Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster Collegiate Thesaurus
- MLA Periodical Directory
- The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin (via Credo Reference)
- Past Masters: Oxford Classical Dictionary
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Respectfully Quoted (via Credo Reference)
- Roget’s Thesaurus
- Roget’s II The New Thesaurus (via Credo Reference)
This page is maintained by Linda Lawrence Stein, Reference Department.
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Last modified: 09/29/08
