Resources
Electronic collections and databases, searchable.
ABELL
Index for journal articles, books, essays, book reviews and dissertations.
Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500-1640
Lists texts, editions and scholarship, along with bibliographic tools.
Black Drama
Full-text plays and related information from around the world.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Index to books, magazines, documents, newspapers.
Cambridge Core
Platform for all books, journal and other publications published by Cambridge University Press.
CPI.Q
Index for Canadian academic journals and popular magazines
Dissertations & Theses @ Wilfrid Laurier University
WLU doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
Duke University Press: Books
Electronic books published by Duke University Press, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
Early English Books Online
Full text, in facsimile, of more than 125,000 literary and historical texts as listed in the English Short Title Catalogue.
EBSCOhost databases (all)
Search all EBSCOhost databases at once.
Eight Centuries
An index to a variety of primary sources from the 12th century up to 1930.
English Short Title Catalogue
Bibliography of titles published in England. For full texts, see Early English Books Online.
Films on demand
Streaming video collection for the humanities and social sciences.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Full text biographical information, overviews, criticism and reviews on writers, past and present.
Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary
Historical thesaurus of English vocabulary, from Old English to the present
Index of American periodical verse
Print index for poetry in American, Canadian and Caribbean periodicals.
INTER-PLAY
Index to plays in books & periodicals.
Internet Archive: eBooks and Texts
A collection of more than 20 million freely available books and texts.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Interdisciplinary bibliography of scholarly research on the period from 400 to 1700.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Full-text encyclopedia with entries for critics, theorists, schools and movements.
JSTOR
Current and back issues of journals in arts and sciences.
Literature Online
Full text of more than 355,000 works in English, American and Canadian literature.
Medieval Family Life
Medieval documents on the topics of family, business, the law, violence, etc.
MLA International Bibliography (via EBSCOhost)
Comprehensive index for modern languages and literatures providing citations to articles, books, book chapters and dissertations.
NSTC: Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue
Combined catalogue of books written in English from 1801 to 1919.
OED : Oxford English Dictionary
The full text of the 20-volume 2nd edition (1989) plus regular updates.
Oxford Academic : Journals
Index of and links to all journals published by Oxford.
Project Gutenberg
Collection of tens of thousands of free, mostly US-public-domain books.
Project MUSE
Full-text books and peer reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
International database with full text and/or abstracts for doctoral dissertations and selected master's theses.