Literary Sources
Find up-to-date 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.
Drama Online
Includes full texts of plays from across the history of the theatre, ranging from Aeschylus to the present day.
Includes non-English-language works in translation, scholarly and critical editions,
first night program texts, and critical analysis and contextual information. Critical
interpretations, theatre history surveys and major reference works on authors, movements,
practitioners, periods and genres are included alongside performance and practitioner
texts, acting and backstage guides.
Magill On Literature and Authors
Critical analyses and plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.
Includes information on over 1,500 notable authors. Magill On Authors covers long
and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists and philosophers.
Gleeditions
Full-text editions of selected classic drama, novels, short stories, and informational
texts, annotated for seven literary elements. Contains background information, glossary,
index and graphics. List of all titles available.
Cambridge Companions Online
A series of over 600 e-books offering introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers,
composers, topics, and periods. Includes essays on literature, poetry, theatre, philosophy,
music, religion, history and culture.
Oxford Reference Online
Over 130 dictionaries and reference titles from a wide range of subjects.
Oxford English Dictionary
Considered the most authoritative and comprehensive English language dictionary in
the world. Includes information on the English language, its history, and the social,
cultural, and political influences that have shaped the language through the centuries.
Includes historical thesaurus. Also known as OED Online.
Oxford Music Online
Encyclopedia including articles on Western classical music, jazz, non-Western, folk
music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. 51,000 articles offer overviews
of topics from a scholarly perspective and include extensive bibliographies.
JSTOR
Back issues of over 300 scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines: African
American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archeology, Art and Architecture,
Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, Language
& Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Music, Middle East Studies, Philosophy,
Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
Academic Search Complete, MasterFile Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 9,900
full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. The database
features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles
in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more
than 1,400 journals.
Current Biography
More than 15,000 full text biographies and more than 9,400 obituaries from all of
the volumes of Current Biography Yearbook, from 1940 to the present. The biographies
are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity,
titles of works, date of birth, date of death, and keywords.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
A resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects
of communication and mass media.
Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982
Comprehensive indexing of general-interest periodicals. Coverage includes the years
1890 through 1982.