Resources
Electronic collections and databases, searchable.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Full text biographical information, overviews, criticism and reviews on writers, past and present.
Historical Abstracts
Index of journal articles, books, etc. on world history (NOT Canada or the U.S.) from 1450 to the present.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)
Interdisciplinary database with articles from more than 1200 English-language periodicals.
Index of American periodical verse
Print index for poetry in American, Canadian and Caribbean periodicals.
INTER-PLAY
Index to plays in books & periodicals.
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Full-text articles focussing on interdisciplinary aspects of linguistics. Published 2003.
Internet Archive: eBooks and Texts
A collection of more than 20 million freely available books and texts.
IPA Source
A collection of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions & literal translations of aria and art song texts.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Interdisciplinary bibliography of scholarly research on the period from 400 to 1700.
John Benjamins e-Platform
Platform for journals, books, series and other resources publishing by John Benjamins.
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
Full-text poetry, prose and drama by writers in the U.S.
Literary Index
Indexes Gale publications: biographies and literary criticism.
MLA Directory of Periodicals (via EBSCOhost)
Lists more than 3,700 periodicals that are covered in the MLA International Bibliography.
MLA International Bibliography (via EBSCOhost)
Comprehensive index for modern languages and literatures providing citations to articles, books, book chapters and dissertations.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
A music streaming program for world music, spoken word, and natural sound recordings.
North American Indian Drama: Second Edition
Collection of plays by Indigenous playwrights of Turtle Island from the twentieth century.
OAPEN : Online library and publication platform
Open access academic books covering a variety of subjects.
OED : Oxford English Dictionary
The full text of the 20-volume 2nd edition (1989) plus regular updates.
Open Library of Humanities
Open access journals in the humanities.
Oxford Academic : Journals
Index of and links to all journals published by Oxford.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Ebook collection strong in philosophy, religion, business; economics, and science.
Project Gutenberg
Collection of tens of thousands of free, mostly US-public-domain books.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (2nd Edition)
Entries on writers and concepts
Sage Journals
Several hundred full-text electronic journals, chiefly in the social sciences.
Scholars Commons @ Laurier
Online collection of the intellectual, creative, and scholarly output of the Wilfrid Laurier University community.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
Citations to both scholarly and fan writings about science fiction, fantasy and horror.
South and Southeast Asian Literature
Collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia.
Theatre (via Alexander Street)
Combined access to all the theatre-related collections available from Alexander Street.
Theatre in Video: Volume I
Video collection of plays and film documentaries.
Twentieth Century North American Drama
Full-text plays, chiefly American with some Canadian.