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Literature and languages Databases/Indexes

Subject Liaison: Linda Snow 972-883-2916
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Literature
Searches all of the following databases simultaneously: Academic Search CompleteProvided by TexShare, Book Review Digest Plus, Essay & General Literature Index, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities International Index, MLA International Bibliography, America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts.
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Periodicals Archive Online database is the new name of PCI Full Text---an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Researchers can access over 200 years of scholarship on a wide variety of subjects.  How to Search This Database
PIO indexes hundreds of humanities, science, and social science journals from different countries in several languages. Many full-text articles are included. Coverage for some journals begins in the 17th century. Especially useful for scholarly book reviews.  How to Search This Database
British Periodicals British Periodicals' Collections I and II consist of the full text of more than 460 journals published from the 1680s to the 1930s. These online collections include scholarly and professional journals, art periodicals, penny weeklies, and illustrated family magazines. Among the works included in British Periodicals are titles founded, edited or regularly contributed to by a host of important figures: Walter Bagehot, Aubrey Beardsley, Annie Besant, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Harriet Martineau, John Henry Newman, W. M. Rossetti, and many others. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection - Nineteenth Century Collections Online Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. It comes from the Castle Corvey collection of Victor Amadeus, discovered in the 1980s. The Corvey Collection of Romantic era writing - includes fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and more - with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index Part of ISI Web of Knowledge, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index is a broad multidisciplinary index to journals published since 1975 in the fields of art, architecture, history, literature, music, film, philosophy, dance, religion, etc. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching.A good place to start if you want to know which writers are citing a particular author.  How to Search This Database
Contains the catalog records of thousands of libraries worldwide and provides information on millions of books, newspapers, maps, periodicals, government documents, etc. One of the most important resources for determining which library owns a particular work.
The Twentieth-Century Poetry database consists of two collections: "American Poetry" includes the full text of 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.
"English Poetry" includes the full text of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes, Wendy Cope, and Carol Ann Duffy; it also incorporates the works in The Faber Poetry Library.  How to Search This Database
Dictionary of Literary Biography (shortened version of the print resource)    Provides nearly 10,000 full-text biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.  How to Search This Database
International Index to Performing Arts Full Text Indexes more than 200 performing arts journals and as well as biographical information, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, and reviews. Subjects include film, television, theater, ballet, opera, musical theater, puppetry, mime, rodeos, circuses, etc. Some material is full-text. This is a good place to begin researching film and television studies. Abstracts span back to 1998, and indexing begins as far back as 1864.  How to Search This Database
An international index with abstracts to books and scholarly journals of philosophy and related fields written after 1939.  It covers ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines such as law, religion, science, history, and education. It is the most important database for philosophy.  How to Search This Database
Book Review Index Online, 1965- Electronically indexes book reviews from 1965 to the present, making them easily accessible from an intuitive interface. Researchers can search through the most trusted review publications using multiple search options and see results presented quickly and accurately.
Short Story Index Detailed index of more than 76,500 stories from more than 4,025 collections, either written in English or translated into English. It is searchable by subject, author, date, title, keyword, and source alone or by any combination. Subjects include narrative technique or device, locale, theme, and genre. This reference database grows by 4,000 records each year, and includes coverage dating back to 1984. Although primarily an index, it links to full text if available.  How to Search This Database
The Scribner Writers SeriesProvided by TexShare
 The Scribner Writers series includes approximately 1,600 full-text articles on writers and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Each signed article was written by a noted scholar and concludes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study.  How to Search This Database
Twayne's Authors SeriesProvided by TexShare
 The Twayne Authors Series is the premier literary reference resource series comprising Twayne's U.S. Authors, Twayne's English Authors, and Twayne's World Authors. Each of these individual titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors, bringing the total number of authors covered in the Series to nearly 600. Each author selected for coverage is tied to the high school and college curriculum.  How to Search This Database
Contemporary Literary Criticism (shortened version of the print source)Provided by TexShare The online version of Contemporary Literary Criticism provides full text access to more than 11,000 critical essays on 20th and 21st century authors. It also provides bibliographic citations for each author's principal works. For more information consult the printed version of Contemporary Literary Criticism at call number Ref PN94 .C6 in the reference area on the 2nd floor of McDermott Library. For additional sources of criticism, ask for a copy of our Literary Criticism guide at the McDermott Library reference desk.
Contemporary Authors (shortened version of the print source)Provided by TexShare The online version of Contemporary Authors provides biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 living U.S. and international authors. For information on other 20th and 21st century writers, consult the printed version of Contemporary Authors at call number Ref PN453 .C6 in the reference area on the 2nd floor of McDermott Library.
American Film Scripts Online Contains 823 scripts, together with detailed information on the scenes, characters, and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes over 430 original images of previously unpublished screenplays.  How to Search This Database
North American Theatre Online The North American Theatre Online database provides detailed information on thousands of theatrical figures, plays, theatres, major productions, and production companies in Canada and the United States, including 10,500 images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources. The database covers the time period from the Colonial era to the present.  How to Search This Database
North American Women's Drama Produced by Alexander Street Press, Women's American Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Plays selected currently cover the 18th through the 21st centuries with future additions planned. Almost a third of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays. The collection will be of particular interest to students of feminism and for women's studies. The indexing makes it possible to find and analyze particular dialog, characters and events.  How to Search This Database
Black Drama, 1850 to Present Full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. This database will provide information on related productions, theaters, productions companies, as well as selected playbills, productions photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.  How to Search This Database
Matthew Arnold was the preeminent poet/critic of the second half of the nineteenth century. This digital edition represents the most comprehensive and assiduously annotated collection of his correspondence available. It is fully searchable and includes both a linked index and a complete chronological listing of almost 4,000 of his letters.
Twentieth Century North American Drama The Twentieth Century North American Drama database contains1,386 plays by 209 playwrights. Along with the plays, the database contains information on theaters and production companies, as well as selected playbills, production photographs, and other materials related to the plays. Twentieth Century North American Drama also allows searching by character, author, theater, and production.  How to Search This Database
Latin American Women Writers Latin American Women Writers is a full text database containing prose, poetry, and plays by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America from the colonial era to the present. The writings are in their original language (Spanish or Portuguese).  How to Search This Database
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction Contains approximately 380 plays and over 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. LALI also includes full-color images of book jackets, brochures and flyers. Documents are available in English, Spanish, and Italian. Coverage ranges from 1872 to present.  How to Search This Database
Asian American Drama Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays by 42 playwrights, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information for a comprehensive overview of this growing field. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and will soon include contemporary playwrights such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.  How to Search This Database
Women Writers Online is a complete set of digital texts from the Women Writers Project at Brown University. This collection contains works by pre-Victorian women writers including 100 Renaissance texts. Among the types of primary sources included in this collection are: poems, letters, essays, book chapters and plays.
Clotel Digital Edition Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States, by William Wells Brown Clotel, the first African American novel was published when its author was still legally a slave. This digital edition presents the full extant texts of the novel's four versions, published between 1853 and 1867. The fully searchable texts may be read individually or in parallel and are accompanied by generous biographical, critical, and historical commentary as well as line-by-line annotations and textual collation.
FRANCIS Francis is created by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France. This multilingual, multidisciplinary database is especially useful for the humanities and social sciences. Francis covers thousands of journals, books, and conference papers in many languages.  How to Search This Database
The Vogue Archive This database is a searchable archive of Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's commercial artists, stylists, and photographers and is a unique record of fashion, culture, advertising, and society from the dawn of the twentieth-century to the present day. It is also a rich source for other areas of modern culture, providing a record of changing social tastes and mores, encompassing literary works by Kate Chopin, Evelyn Waugh, Vladimir Nabokov, and Carson McCullers, articles by Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell, wartime photojournalism by Lee Miller, features on popular cultural figures of the day from Marlene Dietrich and the Beatles to Nicole Kidman and Beyoncé, and on prominent American women from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama.
Literature Resource Center (LRC)Provided by TexShare
 Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors. LRC also has access to full-text critical essays on major authors from more than 260 journals. Other products available in LRC are explications and overviews of prominent literary works; links to websites focusing on major authors and their works; timeline events to help place literature in its historical and social context, including author portraits; and a guide to writing a Modern Language Association-style research paper.  How to Search This Database
The Listener Historical Archive (Printed news of the BBC), 1929-1991
 The Listener was a weekly publication, established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing radio - and later, television - programs in print. With major contributors including E. M. Forster, George Orwell and Bertrand Russell, it also provided an important platform for new writers and poets, W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin being notable examples. As well as expanding on the intellectual broadcasts of the week, The Listener also discussed major literary and musical programs and regularly reviewed new books.   How to Search This Database
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive (1902-2005)
 The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive (1902-2005) contains every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902 through 2006. Since 1902, The Times Literary Supplement has scrutinized and reviewed the work of leading writers and thinkers. It offers comprehensive coverage of the latest and most important publications in every subject and in several languages. It also reviews current theatre, cinema, music, and exhibitions. The TLS's authority is acknowledged world-wide, and its writers and reviewers include Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, Mario Vargas Llosa, Orhan Pamuk, and Julian Barnes. In all areas, the TLS, as Le Monde put it, "has no rivals".
Languages / Linguistics
Tell Me More by Auralog is an online language learning program. Lessons, from beginner to advanced levels, are available for the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Lessons incorporate all aspects of language learning, including pronunciation, spelling, and grammar. Users need to set up a personal account and should use headphones with a microphone to take full advantage of the learning experience.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts An international index to journals, books, dissertations, and reports about language, linguistics, speech, communications and related topics. The index starts in 1973. Each document in Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts contains a summary. How to Search This Database
Linguistics POWERSEARCH Searches all of the following databases simultaneously: Academic Search CompleteProvided by TexShare,  Humanities Abstracts, MLA International Bibliography.  How to Search This Database
The OED is "the ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day." It is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of 500,000 words, tracing their historical appearances through 2.5 million quotations.
Oxford Reference Online Bilingual Dictionaries
 The award-winning Oxford Reference Online (ORO) database contains the full text of over 200 reference books and dozens of English and bilingual dictionaries, plus 50,000 in-depth articles, hundreds of links to valuable web resources, and thousands of maps and illustrations, all produced by the authoritative Oxford University Press. ORO provides efficient one-stop-shopping for facts, definitions, biographies, and dates in one scholarly, full-text database.  How to Search This Database
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