ENGLISH LIBRARY

Featured Resources

• NEW! Try out the trial database of Oxford Scholarship Online. The Trial lasts until December 11th. Please send all comments to English Librarian Kathleen Kluegel.

• NEW!  Try out the Trial database of  British Literary Manuscripts, 1660-1900. The Trial lasts until November 29th. Please send all comments to English Librarian Kathleen Kluegel.

• NEW! Explore our new guide to Internet Resources for Literary Works and Authors.  Find authoritative websites and free online resources on subjects from Dante to contemporary American poetry.

• NEW!  Read our new guide on peer review.  What is it?  Why does it matter?

• NEW! Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective 1907-1984 indexes almost 1200 20th century journals in the humanities and social sciences.

• NEW! British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.

• NEW! 19th Century British Library Newspapers contains "full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain."

• NEW!  Literature Criticism Online collects all of Gale's series on literary criticism, including: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review.

• Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.

• Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals is an index to known authorship of anonymous and pseudonymous material in Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900.

• EEBO Search Guide is a useful search guide for the Early English Books Online database.

• The Shakespeare Collection brings together general reference data, full-text scholarly periodicals, reprinted criticism, primary source material and the full-text annotated works from The Arden Shakespeare, the world's most recognized scholarly edition.

• Film Literature Index annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles.

• Literature Compass publishes peer reviewed survey articles from across the entire discipline. Experienced researchers, teaching faculty, and advanced students will all benefit from the accessible, informative articles that provide overviews of current research.