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Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 additional journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

The ARTFL Project

The ARTFL implementation of the FRANTEXT database (formerly the Trésor de la Langue Française) consists of over 2600 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, poetry, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions.

Black Drama

This initial release of Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Black Short Fiction

The most comprehensive collection of African and African-Diaspora stories yet created. When complete, it will feature the English-language literature of more than 15 countries, along with francophone authors from Africa and the Caribbean. In addition, the collection will include literature in languages that have their origins in African countries and are still present in some regions today, such as the Gullah language of South Carolina.

Black Women Writers

With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, Black Women Writers brings together the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, these authors have had to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings. Presenting works from many different countries in three continents, and a variety of cultural experiences, the database gives a view of black women’s struggles through time; the challenges of a group facing issues that are, together, unique to this literature.

Caribbean Literature

A searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected by our editors are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers.

Dictionary of Old English Corpus

A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts.

Early English Books Online

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Expanded Academic Index

Includes scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspaper articles in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology disciplines. Some full-text. Searches may be restricted to refereed journals only.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a not–for–profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. JSTOR includes 1,856,206 full-length articles across 47 disciplines. There are 1,387,437 book reviews and the oldest content in the archive was published in 1665.

Latin American Women Writers

With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, and 300 plays, Latin American Women Writers accomplishes the difficult task of bringing together the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection. Starting in the colonial period and moving through to the present, the literary works, memoirs, feminist essays, and other materials will give researchers the feminine perspective of the development of an entire continent. The writings will also reveal the personal struggles and histories of the authors themselves.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts

Provides abstracts for articles on "all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics."

Literature for Children

Comprised of volumes from the Departments of Special Collections at several of the State University System of Florida libraries. It is a growing collection of digitized titles published predominantly in the United States and Great Britain, from the 17th through the 20th centuries.

Literature Online (LION)

Provides full-text access to more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, as well as numerous full-text literature journals and other key literary criticism and reference resources. Includes citations from Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).

Literature Resource Center

Delivers biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.

MLA International Bibliography

Provides citations to articles in the fields of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 6,000 journals and series published worldwide. Some full-text.

The Nation Archive

The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion since its inception in 1865. The Nation has long been regarded as one of the country's definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture, books and the arts and continues to stand as the independent voice in American journalism. James Baldwin, Ralph Nader and Hunter Thompson published their first pieces in The Nation. Other contributors have included Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Emma Goldman and Jean-Paul Sartre. The Nation has a proud literary history as well, having published the work of W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Henry James, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann and hundreds of other major writers. This database contains indexing & abstracting and full text for the complete archive of The Nation beginning with its first issue in 1865 through to the present.

netLibrary

An online collection of full-text e-books with a variety of subjects and publishers. All new users must first sign up for an account. Requires Adobe Reader 6.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content -- indexing, abstracts, and full text -- from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.

Original Sources

Includes online full-text of original source documents, critical selections, and acclaimed works of literature. Includes poetry, short stories, and full-length books from American, British, classical, juvenile, and world authors.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

Oxford Reference Online

Provides searchable full-text entries from over 100 dictionaries and other reference titles, including 9 literature reference books.

Past Masters

Includes access to Eighteenth Century Women Playwrights, featuring the works of Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, Susanna Centlivre, Elizabeth Griffith, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald.

Periodicals Archive Online

Periodicals Archive Online is an online periodical archive which makes the full page image of periodical articles, from 1770 to 1995, available in digital form.

Periodicals Index Online

Periodicals Index Online is a major online periodical index from 1770 to 1995.

Play Index

Search over 44,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match your production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

Project MUSE

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 380 high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

Provides citations and abstracts for doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Dissertations published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.

Short Story Index

An index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals.

Web of Science

Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).

Wright American Fiction

This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors.


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