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Databases

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Academic Search Premier over 4,600 journals  more
Biography Reference Bank biographical information from periodicals and reference works   more
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Book Review Digest Plus index and some text   more
Communication and Mass Media Complete over 200 journals   more
Dissertation Abstracts citations, abstracts, recent text   more
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) over 150,000 more
Essay & General Literature Index indexes essay collections   more
Gale Virtual Reference Library 200 reference books   more
Humanities Full Text indexes journals since 1984   more
Humanities International Complete 814 journals    more
JSTOR 420 scholarly journals   more
Literary Market Place directory of publishers   more
Literature Resources from Gale biographies & criticism   more
LLBA: Linguistic & Language Behavior Abstracts indexes 1,5000 journals   more
MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography literature & language index   more
Netlibrary 2,594 scholarly books  more
New York Review of Books 1963 to present   more
New York Times Full Text 1851-2003   more
Oxford English Dictionary complete second edition   more
19th Century Masterfile Poole's Plus; trial ends soon   more
Oxford English Dictionary complete second edition   more
Oxford Reference Online over 100 reference works   more
Project Muse over 240 scholarly journals   more
Readers' Guide Full Text indexes popular periodicals  more
Readers' Guide Retrospective indexes periodicals since 1890   more
SAGE Communication Collection 19 journals since 1955   more
Twayne's Author Series biography & criticism   more
WorldCat holdings of thousands of libraries   more
World Shakespeare Bibliography index of criticism since 1969   more

Unrestricted, Open-Access Databases

Directory of Open Access Journals
English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
Film Literature Index
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Databases at New York Public Library

NYPL Online Databases and Indexes--Literature

Journals

Subject list of electronic journals in literature
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Searchable alphabetical list of electronic journals in all subjects
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Full-Text Journals and Newspapers--Unrestricted Access

Arts and Letters Daily
CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture
Early Modern Literary Studies
Erfurt Electronic Studies in English
Internet Library of Early Journals
London Review of Books
New York Review of Books
New York Times Book Reviews
Paris Review: The DNA of Literature
Romanticism on the Net
Village Voice Book Reviews

Reference Sources

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African American Writers. GC Ref PS153.N5 A344 2001
American Literary Scholarship. GC Ref PS3.A47 1963-
American Women Writers. GC Ref PS147.A42 2000
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. GC Ref Z2011.M69
Bibliography of American Literature. GC Ref Z1225.B55
British Bibliography and Textual Criticism. GC Ref Z2011.H62
British Literary Manuscripts. GC Ref Folio PR9.K59
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. GC Ref PR19.C66 2003
Critical Survey of Literary Theory. GC Ref PN45.C74 1987
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory. GC Ref PN98.W64 E53 1997
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. GC Ref PR9080.A52 E53 1994
Encyclopedia of the Novel. GC Ref PN41.E487 1998
Feminist Writers. GC Ref PN451.F46 1996
Gay and Lesbian Literature. GC Ref PN56.H57 G36 1994
A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. GC Ref PN44.5.H37 2000
Index of English Literary Manuscripts. GC Ref Z6611.L7 I5
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. GC Ref PN81.J554 1994
The Literary Index to American Magazines, 1850-1900. GC Ref PS214.W44 1996
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. GC Ref Folio PR9.L629 1995
Location Register of Twentieth Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters. GC Ref Folio Z6611.L7 L63 1988
The Oxford English Dictionary. GC Ref Folio PE1625.O87 1989
Short-Title Catalogue, 1641-1700. GC Ref Z2002.W52 1994
 

Academic Web Sites

American Transcendentalism Web (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Anglistik Guide (Anglo-American literature resources; Univ. of Gottingen)
Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service (Univ. of Cambridge)
Canadian Literature Archive (Univ. of Manitoba)
Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English (National Univ. of Singapore)
English Department Pages Worldwide (New York Univ.)
English Literature and Religion (Univ. of Maryland)
English Literature Resources (London School of Journalism)
English Renaissance in Context (Univ. of Pennsylvania and National Endowment for the Humanities)
Genres: Post World War II American Literature and Culture Database (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Graduate Center Ph.D. Program in English
Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America (Library of Congress)
Literature (in English) (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Literary Links: Specialty Catalog (Johannes Gutenberg Univ.)
Literary Resources on the Net (Rutgers Univ., Newark)
The Online Books Page (Unv. of Pennsylvania)
Orlando Project: Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles (Univ. of Alberta)
Perspectives in American Literature (California State Univ., Stanislaus)
The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change (Univ. of Virginia)
RED: The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (Open University)
Red, White, Blue, and Brimstone: New World Literature and the American Millenium
Romantic Circles (Univ. of Maryland)
Romantic Natural History (literature and natural history in the century before Darwin; Dickinson Univ.)
Sublime Anxiety: The Gothic Family and the Outsider (Univ. of Virginia)
Textual Studies, 1500-1800 (blog)
Victorian Web (National Univ. of Singapore)
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (Univ. of Minnesota)

Special Topics

MLA Style

Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style (Modern Language Association)
Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions (MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions)
MLA Style (Research and Documentation Online)
Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Sources

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Literary Texts

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library)
American Literature (Online Books Page)
American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 (Library of Congress)
American Verse Project (Univ. of Michigan)
Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485) (Luminarium)
Australian Literary and Historical Texts (Univ. of Sydney)
Bartleby: Great Books Online
British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (Univ. of Virginia)
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (Univ. of California, Davis)
Camelot Project (Arthurian texts; Univ. of Rochester)
Canadian Poetry Archive (National Library of Canada)
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts (Irish literature and history; University College, Cork)
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (Univ. of Michigan)
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Eighteenth-Century E-Texts (Rutgers Univ., Newark)
Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo)
Emory Women Writers Resource Project (Emory Univ.)
Google Book Search
Google Shakespeare
Hypertexts (nineteenth-century American texts; Univ. of Virginia)
Internet Poetry Archive (University of North Carolina Press and Ibiblio)
Isle of Lesbos (lesbian poetry)
Library of Southern Literature (Univ. of North Carolina)
Modern American Poetry (Univ. of Illinois)
Online Books Page (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Online Medieval and Classical Library (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Project Guttenberg (over 6,000 texts)
Renascence Editions (works published in English 1477-1799; Univ. of Oregon)
Representative Poetry Online (Univ. of Toronto)
University of California Press E-Editions
University of Toronto English Library
Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana Univ.)
Web Concordances and Workbooks (Univ. of Dundee)
Women Writers Online (Brown Univ.)
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1895 (Indiana Univ.)

Literary Theory

Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory (National Univ. of Singapore)
Feminist Theory (Univ. of Iowa)
Literary Theory (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Illuminations: The Critical Theory Web Site (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)
Postcolonial News and Literary Studies (Univ. of Bourgogne)
Postcolonial Studies (Emory Univ.)
Reader Response: Empirical Research on Literary Reading (Univ. of Alberta)

Archives and Manuscripts

Folger Shakespeare Library
Guide to the Gay and Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection, 1955-1988 (New York Univ.)
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Univ. of Texas)
Location Register of 20th-Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (Univ. of Reading)

Associations

Academy of American Poets
ADE: Association of Departments of English
Alliance of Literary Societies
American Comparative Literature Association
American Folklore Society
American Literature Association
American Philological Association
Association for Computers and the Humanities
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Bibliographical Society of America
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
Medieval Academy of America
Modern Humanities Research Association
Modern Language Association
National Association for Humanities Education
National Council of Teachers of English
New York State Writers Institute
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
PEN American Center
Poetry Society of America
Royal Society of Literature
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

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