Literary databases
- MLA international bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides a subject, author, and title index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
- ABELL This link opens in a new window
Covers English language and literature published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. Contains monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays.
Multidisciplinary Databases
- JSTOR: the scholarly journal archive This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to important scholarly journals and books in many different disciplines.
- Periodicals index online This link opens in a new window
Indexes the table of contents of journals going as far back as 1665 and as recent as 1995. It covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences and indexes over 15 million articles.
- Humanities & social sciences index retrospective : 1907-1984 This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles from English-language periodicals from 1907 to 1984. Includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous, lesser-known but important specialized magazines.
Specialized databases
- Film & television literature index with full text This link opens in a new windowIndexes all types of writing about television and film, including industry papers, news journalism, and scholarly academic journals. Subjects covered include film & television theory, preservation and restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Includes major academic film journals, international film publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Cinema in India, Cinemaya, Filmkultura, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio, and the full text of Variety Movie Reviews back to 1920.
- International medieval bibliography-online This link opens in a new window
Covers scholarship on the middle ages (500 - 1400), content is International in scope and in languages.
- Iter : gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new window
Indexes research on the middle ages and renaissance (400 - 1700) in journals, books, conference papers, catalogs, discographies, and dissertations.
- World Shakespeare bibliography online This link opens in a new windowProvides a searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide. Containing over 127 500 annotated entries, this collected information is an essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England. Begun in 1950 as a bibliographical supplement to Shakespeare Quarterly, the World Shakespeare Bibliography (WSB) has expanded over the years to become a searchable electronic database that allows users unparalleled access to Shakespeare-related material. Folger Shakespeare Library.
Dissertations & Theses databases
- ProQuest dissertations & theses global This link opens in a new windowThis database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Dissertations since 1997 are available in PDF format with 24 page previews.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & IrelandThe collection offers:
The most comprehensive available listing of theses, with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716.
Access to bibliographic coverage of theses produced by British and Irish universities.
Bibliographic listings for content for 1950-1986.
Abstracts for content since 1986.
