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Research guide for this subject: English Literature and Writing

CORE DATABASES
MLA International Bibliography  
Citations to journal articles, dissertations, and books in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore from 1963 to the present. 1963 - present
Literature Compass  
Literature Compass is an online-only journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles of the most important research and current thinking from across the entire discipline. 2004 - present
Literature Online - LION  
Literature Online features a collection of over 260,000 works of American, English, and Modern poetry, drama, and prose with complementary reference and secondary resources.
Literature Resource Center  
Provides information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.
Romantic Era Redefined  
The Romantic Era Redefined provides a new, genre-redefining electronic collection of Romantic-era literature. It includes poetry, prose, drama, letters, and diaries-along with political, philosophical, scientific, and sociological works.


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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800)  
Searchable database of digitized early American books, pamphlets and broadsides published between 1639 and 1800.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)  
Searchable database of digitized early American pamphlets, broadsides, books, state papers and governmental materials published between 1801 and 1819.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)  
Full text digital facsimiles of titles from the earliest printed works in the English language.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online  
Full text of more than 150,000 important printed works published in the United Kingdom between 1701 and 1800, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
New York Times Historical File (1851- 2001)  
Complete, searchable archive of the New York Times from 1851-2001 with full-page and article PDFs. 1851 - 2001
JSTOR  
Historical backfiles of full text articles from a selected number of major research journals. Varies by publisher.
ProjectMuse  
Full text articles from scholarly humanities and social science journals.
Inter-Play  
Indexes plays that appear in collections, anthologies, and periodicals held by the PSU Library. Updated weekly
Play Index  
Citations and abstracts for over 30,000 plays published individually or in collections.
Short Story Index  
A digital guide to more than 72,000 stories written in or translated into English from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, as well as an additional 12,000 stories from periodicals.
Grangers World of Poetry  
13,000 poems in fulltext, 250,000 poetry citations and commentaries, biographies and bibliographies.
Oxford English Dictionary  
The OED covers the history of the English Language. Contains word definitions, pronunciation, history, and language of origin.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy  
The definitive resource for philosophy information. Features more than 2,000 original entries from a team of over 1,300 of the world's most respected scholars and philosophers.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online  
The /World Shakespeare Bibliography Online/ is a searchable database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1961 and 2008. Includes nearly 117,500 annotated entries.


MULTIDISCIPLINARY DATABASES
Arts and Humanities Citation Index  
Topic and citation searching to identify articles published in high impact arts and humanities journals.
Academic Search Complete  
Humanities, social sciences, news and events, sciences, policy -- mutli-disciplinary coverage of journals. Includes many full text articles.
Essay & General Literature Index  
Citations to chapters in humanties and social science books
Readers' Guide Retrospective  
Citations to articles in general and popular magazines. Coverage of popular magazine publishing from 1890-1982.
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