Literature: Online Databases

Articles across all subjects. Contains both scholarly research and general magazines. Good starting point any time you need journal articles.

Contains full text articles of more than 17,000 men and women who are important in American history.

Over 2 million review citations, many with generous excerpts, from review sources such as newspapers, popular magazines, and academic journals with more than 118,000 new reviews added each year.

Search the full text of academic electronic books from EBSCO. (Formerly NetLibrary ebooks.)

Over 700,000 citations on research documents, journal articles, program descriptions and evaluations, curricular materials and technical reports in education.

Government site has more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966 and more than 107,000 full text non journal documents.

This unique reference database cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada.

Provides access to a wealth of literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and authors throughout history. Including more than 132,000 full-text poems and 670,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.

Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.

Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.

This database provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines. Content includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and much more. Encompasses all fields of the humanities, covering topics including art, classical studies, dance, film, journalism, philosophy, religion and much, much more.

Features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries & work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books & monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines & journals, book reviews from the most prestigious publications, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and much more.

Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.

Search the full text of the Oxford English Dictionary. an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Indexing of more than 117,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, this index is searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary technique and source, or by any combination of terms.