- Academic Search Premier
- 4,500+ general and academic journals, including English language and literature
- coverage from 1985+
- mostly full-text
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- indexes leading arts and humanities journals
- indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, & reviews
- over 1,300+ sources
- mostly citation; some full-text
- coverage from 1980+
- Black Drama - 1850 to the Present
- full-text of 1,200 plays written by more than 100 from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries
- each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching
- plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images
- collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works
- Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- monographs, essays, articles, letters, speeches and interviews written by leaders within the black community
- intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art
- fully searchable
- full-text
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
- 125,000 publications (books, journals, pamphlets, posters, etc.) printed between 1473 and 1700
- digital copies of original texts
- full text
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Iter Bibliography
- literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1400-1700)
- books, journal articles, reviews, essays, proceedings, etc.
- 1,000+ journals indexed
- coverage from 1842+
- citation-only
- Iter Italicum
- first online edition of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum
- most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world
- originally published in six volumes between 1963-1992
- JSTOR
- indexes 440+ scholarly journals, including 49 in English language and literature
- complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
- full-text
- Literature Online (LION)
- 350,000+ works of English and American poetry, drama and prose
- 130+ full-text literature journals
- other key criticism and reference resources
- fully searchable
- Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography
- the professional index in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore
- indexes books, journals, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies
- citation-only
- coverage from 1963+
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
- illustrated collection of more than 50,000 written biographies of men and women who shaped British history from 400 BC to 2001
- recognized as the most authoritative biographical reference source about Great Britain
- 10,000 images
- references and bibliographies
- Oxford English Dictionary
- most authoritative English language dictionary
- gives definition but also traces the development of the word's usage and shifts in meaning over time
- gives first dates and use
- Project MUSE
- 250+ scholarly journals, including English language and literature
- coverage from 1983+
- mostly full-text
- Royal Historical Society Bibliography
- authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day
- links to full-text, where available
- indexes over 580 journals
- coverage from 1900+
- WilsonWeb
- 3,500+ general and academic journals, including English language and literature
- two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega and Humanities & Social Sci Retro
- OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
- Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
- 1,750 journals are full-text
- Women Writers Online: 1400-1830
- 200+ texts by English and American women writers
- includes introductory essays, essays on the cultural context of the period, links to textual databases, and a collection of syllabi
- full-text
- subset of texts: Renaissance Women Online
- World Shakespeare Bibliography
- the primary index to all things Shakespearean: books, journals, films, recordings, performances, etc.
- citation-only
- coverage from 1969+
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