Library resources for the study of literatures in English reflect the entire Anglophone world as well as translations into English. Chronologically they range from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. They include primary texts of fiction, poetry, drama, and selected prose by both canonical and minor authors as well as historical, critical, and biographical works of secondary literature. Resources range from manuscripts and rare books to video and electronic collections such as "Early English Books Online" (EEBO) and "Literature Online" (LION). Entire libraries exist in microform, such as "The Eighteenth-Century Collection." Printed books and serials can be found in the Library of Congress classification ranges of PR and PS with generic studies in PN. Within those classes they are arranged by century and then alphabetically by author. (For suggested leisure reading see a list of authors titled "Read for Fun!") Acquisitions in this field are generously supported by fourteen endowments.
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Coverage:
1920-
Provides citations and indexing to articles, books, dissertations, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published worldwide since 1920 pertaining to bibliography and English language and literature. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
Link to list of LION collections
Link to LION home page
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Contains annotated citations to books, essays, and journal articles published worldwide on English language and linguistics, cultural studies, literary studies, and film studies. Usage info: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users. Access info: Click on "Log on".
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Consists of digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers and periodicals in the original microfilm reproduction series, American periodical series, I, II, and III. When completed in 2003, this database will have more than 7,000,000 pages of full text periodicals.
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Indexes reference works (biographical dictionaries, who's who editions, subject encyclopedias, etc.) containing multiple biographies on individuals, living and deceased, from every field of activity worldwide. Usage info: Licensed for two concurrent users.
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Coverage:
1680s to 1930s
"... 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. ... British Periodicals Collection I consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals ..."--Home page; "about" page.
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Index to poetry, including full-text and excerpts of some poems. Contains the contents of: Columbia Granger's index to poetry in anthologies (eds. 8-12), Columbia Granger's index to poetry in collected and selected works, Classic hundred poems, Columbia Granger's index to African-American poetry, as well as new content not published previously in print.
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1985-
Indexes essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Areas covered include the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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Coverage:
As far back as 1929 to the present
"...provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals ... includes deep backfiles for some of the most important journals in the area of humanities. ... includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works." -- EBSCOhost database description
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1967-
Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Access info: Click on "Enter databases", then select International Medieval Bibliography - online.
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A fully searchable library of over 350,000 works of English and American literature, overseen by an academic Advisory Board. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users
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A poem-centered collection of full-text, excerpted and indexed pieces of literature (as well as stories, essays, plays and speeches) with world-wide coverage of writers from all eras, including biographical sketches.
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1973-
Covers the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics.
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1926-
The MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures provides citations of journal articles, books, and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, and film since 1926.
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Beginning thru 1995.
Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.
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Beginning thru 1995
Index to millions of articles in over 4,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is worldwide, covering major Western languages. Complete PCI Index, including links to selected full text articles. Only the index is searchable.
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Coverage:
1785-1985
A complete digital archive of The Times (London), including every article, advertisement and illustration.
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Coverage:
1902:Jan.17-1990:Dec.28
Fully searchable archive of the TLS in image format and full-page context, with the identities of contributors, who were published anonymously until 1974, disclosed.
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Coverage:
1994:Oct.28- (New issues added one month after publication)
Fully searchable access to articles from every issue of the TLS from 1994 onwards, with contents of new issues available one month after publication.
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Coverage:
1900-
"... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.
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Currently covers 1962-current. Each year, coverage will move forward one year and backwards at least three years.
When complete, will provide annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900. Each year coverage moves forward one year and backwards at least three years.
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