Databases by Subject
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Databases for English language and literature
- American Film Scripts
- Coverage: 1903 - current
- 265 American film scripts by 334 writers are available in full text and searchable by scene, character, director and more.
- ARTFL Project, University Of Chicago
- Coverage: Medieval to 20th Century
- Consists of nearly 2000 French texts. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. The 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of 17th century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
- Asian American Drama
- Coverage: 1891 - current
- 70 full text plays by 17 Asian American playwrights, searchable by title, author, character, scene, subject, theater, production company, and more. Includes biographies, photos, playbills, and other images.
- Black Drama
- Coverage: 1850 - current
- Contains the full text of approximately 1,200 rare and hard-to-find plays written from the 1850's to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African Diaspora countries. Search by author, title, subject, date, full-text, etc.
- Black Thought And Culture
- Coverage: 1700 - 1975
- 438 sources by 192 leading African Americans include monographs, essays, articles, speeches, interviews, letters and correspondence, and other fugitive material. Materials are searchable by author, source, year, historical event, subject, influences, geographic location and more.
- Blackwell Journals
- Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's to current
- Searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
- Chicano Database
- Coverage: 1960s - current
- Interdisciplinary database, indexing all types of materials for Chicano studies (journal articles, books, chapters, and newspaper articles).
- Children's Literature Review
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Criticism of classic to modern children's authors. Part of Literature Critcism Online
- Classical And Medieval Literature Criticism
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Early to present-day criticism of early literature, philosophy, and other works. Part of Literature Criticism Online
- The Columbia Granger's World Of Poetry
- Coverage: 1500 - current
- The definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies. Includes 13,000 poems in full text, and 250,000 poetry citations, in addition to commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, notes on form, and a glossary of prosodic terms.
- Contemporary Authors
- Coverage: current
- A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in Nonfictions, etc. Complete biographical and references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Criticism of living authors, or authors who died since 1960. Part of Literature Criticism Online
- Drama Criticism
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. A full range of criticism on each playwright included. Part of Literature Criticism Online
- Early American Imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
- Coverage: 1639 - 1800
- Full text of almost every book and pamphlet printed in North America from 1639 to 1800. Not yet complete.
- Early American Imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
- Coverage: 1801 - 1819
- Full text of almost every book and pamphlet printed in North America from 1801 to 1819. Not yet complete.
- Early English Books Online
- Coverage: 1475 - 1700
- Contains the full text of over 100,000 English books, pamphlets, and more, from the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Coverage: 1701-1800
- Digitized copies of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
- Grants And Awards Available To American Writers
- With more than 1,000 listings of domestic and foreign grants, literary awards, fellowships and residencies, Grants & Awards is the most comprehensive online database available to writers of all income brackets, at work in all genres, and at various levels of achievement. See Reference Librarian for password.
- Humanities International Complete
- Coverage: 1929 - current
- A comprehensive humanities database, with almost 500 full text titles and indexing and abstracting for more than 1,700 titles. Subject areas include (but are not limited to) literature, philosophy, the arts, history, culture-oriented and multi-disciplinary humanities titles with some coverage going back as far as 1929. This database replaces Humanities Abstracts.
- International Bibliography Of Theatre & Dance With Full Text
- Coverage: 1960s to current
- Our major database for the performing arts. Journal indexing with full text, plus over 100 books in full text.
- Iter
- Coverage: 1943 - current
- Covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for journal articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies are included. Also included are citations for monographs, and material published in monographs and collections of essays.
- The Johns Hopkins Guide To Literary Theory & Criticism
- Coverage: N/A
- Searchable, full-text online version of the well known reference to the intellectual traditions of literary theory.
- JSTOR
- Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
- Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
- Literary Index
- Coverage: current
- Master index to every literary series published by Gale Research Inc. Combines and cross-references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and titles into one source.
- Literature Criticism From 1400 To 1800
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Criticism of works published from the late Middle Ages through the end of the seventeenth century. Part of Literature Criticism Online
- Literature Criticism Online
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Covers literature from the classical era to today in all genres
- LitFinder
- Coverage: 1500 - current
- The best source for contemporary and older poems in full text. Includes more than 100,000 full-text poems, 800,000 citations and excerpts, and hundreds of images, biographies, and critical essays, plus some short stories and essays.
- Middle English Dictionary
- Coverage: N/A
- This electronic version of the MED preserves all the details of the print MED (available in Tutt Library ), but goes far beyond this, by converting its contents into an enormous database, searchable in ways impossible within any print dictionary.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Coverage: 1963 - current
- Literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over journals and series published worldwide.
- Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Chronologically-arranged criticism of authors of the nineteenth century. Part of Literature Criticism Online
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Coverage: 1884 - current
- Online version of the well-known historical dictionary of English, The Oxford English Dictionary, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day, showing not only the current meanings of words, but also tracing their development through time.
- Oxford University Press Journals
- Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's - current
- A searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
- Periodicals Index Online
- Coverage: 1665- 1995
- Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues. Every article is indexed. Mostly citations. Full image access to a select number of journal runs.
- Poetry Criticism
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Biographical sketches and bibliographies of the poets, in addition to a wide selection of criticism. Part of Literature Criticism Online
- Project Muse
- Coverage: 1993 - current
- Project Muse provides access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press journals. Offers current and back issues.
- Scottish Women Poets Of The Romantic Period
- Coverage: 1781 - current
- 60 full text volumes of poetry representing the complete works of 47 poets are searchable by keyword, author, poem, work, critical essay, and more. Includes extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as biographical essays written by leading scholars.
- Shakespearean Criticism
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Includes critical interpretations of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present. Part of Literature Criticism Online
- Short Story Criticism
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Historical survey of the critical response to included authors. Part of Literature Criticism Online
- Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
- Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Criticism on major literary and nonfiction writers of the twentieth century. Part of Literature Criticism Online
- Women Writers Online
- Coverage: 1400 - 1850
- Contains fulltext of nearly 400 works of early modern women writers.
- The World Shakespeare Bibliography
- Coverage: 1962 - current
- Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare.