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	19th Century Masterfile: A Paratext Resource Search relevant printed index to material from 1800-1899

	20th Century African-American Poetry 10,000 poems by 70 African-American modern and contemporary poets. Part of the Literature Online collection.

	African-American Poetry (1750-1900) Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

	American Drama Plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America.

	American Poetry (1600-1900) Poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century

	Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1920-2001) Bibliography of English language and literature

	Archivo Gramatical de la Lengua Espanola

	Archivo Virtual de la Edad de Plata Provides access to books and archival collections of eight institutions, including one in Mexico.
			1868-1936
	Artes e Historia Mexico

	ARTFL Project A compendium of French texts, mostly from the Renaissance-20th century.

	Arts & Humanities Search Records referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
		First Search (OCLC)	1980 to the present
	Bibliografia de la Literatura Espanola Bibliographic database of Spanish literature.

	Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) More than 410,000 records on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.
			1971 to the present
	Biblioteca Digital Andina (BDA) Digital library with fulltext books from the countries in the Andean region of South America.

	Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Database of works of Spanish and Spanish American writers from all periods

	C19: Nineteenth Century Index

	Canadian Poetry Full text of more than 12,000 poems by Canadian poets

	Chicano Database A major bibliographic database for topics in the humanities and social and behavioral sciences on Mexican-Americans and Chicano and Latino Studies
			1967 to the present
	COMPLUDOC: Base de Datos de Articulos de Revistas Article and contents of over a thousand scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences and humanities at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid

	Contemporary Authors Author biographies. Now available online as part of the Literature Resource Center.

	Dictionary of Literary Biography Biographical articles and bibliographies of major authors. Now available online as part of the Literature Resource Center.

	Dictionary of Music and Musicians Authority on all aspects of music

	Early American Fiction 1789-1850 Images and text for a collection of early American fiction 1789-1850.

	Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America

	Early English Books Online (EEBO) A digital library of early English books from 1400 to 1700.

	Early English Prose Fiction Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700

	Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911) Full-text of various versions of Shakespeare's plays.
		Proquest	1591-1911
	Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800.
		Thomson-Gale
	Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780) 96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780
			1700-1780
	Encyclopedia of language and linguistics

	English Drama (1280-1915) A combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases
			1280-1915
	English Poetry (600-1900) Essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th
			600-1900
	English Poetry, Second Edition Adds 20,000 poems to English Poetry (600-1900).
			700-1915
	English Short Title Catalog (ESTC) Describes works printed in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through 1899.
		Research Libraries Group(RLG)
	Expanded Academic ASAP Articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications, many in full-text.
			1980 -- present
	Faber Poetry Library Contains 124 volumes of poetry by 42 authors.

	FRANCIS International Humanities and Social Sciences Multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%)
			1984 to present
	GenderWatch Full text database of publications focusing on the impact of gender across subject areas.
		Proquest	1970 to the present
	Goethes Werke im WWW Contains complete text of the 143 volumes of the Weimar Edition.

	HAPI Online Locate articles in the humanities and social sciences from and about Latin America and related to Chicano and Latino studies from the Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Some fulltext available.
			1970 to the present
	Hispanic-American Experience Primary source documents of literature, history, images and sounds of the Latin American and the Chicano/Latino experience in the Americas.

	HLAS Online A major bibliography in the humanities and social sciences on Latin America consisting of works published in Spanish, Portuguese, English and other languages, selected and annotated by scholars. Includes books and journal articles.

	HOMER Catalog of the Information Services Division's library materials (all libraries except Health Sciences Libraries and Law Library catalogs)

	Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory A guide to criticism from classical antiquity to the present day.

	Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) Access to the tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America. Please click here to connect to the search page

	Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction

	Latino: Bancos Bibliograficos Latinoamericanos y de El Caribe A UNESCO library portal with 114 databases with bibliographic information from libraries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain.
			varies
	Lexicons of Early Modern English

	LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Full text business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.
			varies
	Literature Criticism Online

	Literature Online (LION) A fully searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature.

	Literature Resource Center Full-text biographies and criticism on over 90,000 authors, literary movements, and genres from every age and literary discipline.

	MLA Bibliography Index to scholarly publication in language, linguistics, literature and folklore.
			1926 to the present
	NetLibrary Collection of full-text electronic books.

	Nineteenth-Century Fiction (ProQuest) 250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists.
			1782-1903
	Noticias en Espanol Full text Spanish language news articles relevant to Hispanics, Chicanos and Latinos in the U.S.
			1992 to the present
	OED Online The definitive English language dictionary and record of English language development.

	Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED Online) The definitive English language dictionary and record of English language development.

	Oxford Shakespeare The 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare

	Oxford Text Archive OTA distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages. Its goal is to make digital resources available to the academic community.

	Poem Finder Indexing and selected full-text for poems from all time periods and geographical locations.

	ProQuest Access databases of resources for arts, business, humanities, social sciences, science and newspaper resources.
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	Sur Electronic fulltext version of one of the most important literary magazines in 20th century Latin America.

	Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro Database of Spanish Golden Age drama.

	Victorian Database Online Bibliography of materials on 19th century British studies.

	Victorian Women Writers Project Text of works by British women writers of the 19th century

	William Blake Archive A hypermedia archive about the poet William Blake (1757-1827)

	Wilson Essay and General Literature Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature
		H.W. Wilson
	Wilson Humanities Full Text An index of articles in the humanities.
		H.W. Wilson	Indexing 1982+, Abstracting 1984+, ?select? Full Text 1994+
	Wilson Readers' Guide Retrospective Index to periodicals. Coverage 1890-1982
		H.W. Wilson	1890 -- 1982
	Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 Searchable electronic collection of 19th century adult fiction

	xipolis.net - German Reference Database Provides access to German language encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs

eJournals
	Acta Linguistica Hungarica
		MetaPress (Springer)	v. 45, no. 1 (1998) -- present
	African American Review Official publication of MLA's Black American Literature and Culture division.
		JSTOR	v. 26 - 35 (1992 - 2001)
	Alif Journal of Comparative Poetics
		JSTOR	no. 1 - (1981 - moving wall of 3 years)
	American Literary History Quarterly journal published by Oxford University Press
		Project Muse	v. 12 - (2000 - )
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 11 (1989 - 1999)
	Arachne@Rutgers: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies Promulgates current literary and cultural research relating to Spain, Portugal and Latin America.

	Asian Theatre Journal Dedicated to the performing arts of Asia.
		Project Muse	v. 16, no. 2 (1999) -- present
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 18 (1984 - 2001)
	Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs Articles and book reviews from China scholars around the world.
		JSTOR	no. 1 - 33 (1979 - 1995)
	Black American Literature Forum Early publication of MLA's Black American Literature and Culture division.
		JSTOR	v. 10 - 25 (1976 - 1991)
	Boundary 2 Literature and culture from a political and historical viewpoint. Duke Universtiy Press
		Project Muse	v. 1 - 31 (1972 - 2004)
	Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
			v. 77, no. 1 (2000) -- v. 78, no. 5 (2001)
	Bulletin of Latin American Research
		Blackwell-Synergy	1997 -- Present
	Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature Interdisciplianry bi-annual published by the faculty of the Cardozo Law School at the Yeshiva University.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 13 (1989 - 2001)
	Children's Literature
		Project Muse	v. 31 -- present
	China Review International Reviews of recently published China-related books and monographs from China.
		Project Muse	v. 6, no. 2 (1999)
	Ciberayllu Humanities and cultural electronic journal from Peru. In Spanish.
			1996-present (selected)
	College English Published by National Council of Teachers of English
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 64 (1939 - 2001)
	College Literature Journal for college level literature teachers.
		Project Muse	v. 30 (2003) -- present
	Colonial Latin American Review Interdisciplinary journal of the colonial period in Latin America.
		First Search (OCLC)	v. 7, no. 1 (1998) - present
	Comparative Literature Explores literary history.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - (1949 - moving wall of 5 years)
	Comparative Literature Studies Examines the literary relations between East Asia and the West.
		Project Muse	v. 36, no. 3 (1999)-present
	Contemporary Literature Contemporary Literature presents in-depth interviews, broad-ranging articles, written and book reviews
		Project Muse	v. 45, no. 1 (2004) -- present
		JSTOR	v. 9 - 43 (1968 - 2002)
	Cultural Critique interdisciplinary explorations trends and issues in culture, theory, and politics
		Project Muse	v. 47 - (2001 -)
	Diacritics Articles on the problems of literary criticism.
		Project Muse	v. 26 - 32 (1996 - 2002)
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 32 (1971 - 2002)
	Early American Literature Scholarship on American literature from its inception through the early national period, about 1830
		Project Muse	v.3 (2000) -- present
	Eighteenth-Century Studies Official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 37 (1967 - 2004)
	ELT Journal ELT Journal is a quarterly publication for teachers of English as a second or foreign language.
		Oxford University Press	v. 55, no. 1 (1990) -- present
	English Historical Review Oldest journal of historical scholarship inthe English-speaking world
		Oxford University Press	v. 1996 - present
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 114 (1886 - 1999)
	English Studies Published in the Netherlands, it covers English and American Literature and Culture.
			v. 81, no. 1 (2000) -- present
	Especulo - Revistas de Estudios Literarios Electronic literary journal from Spain.
			no. 1 (1995) -- present
	Essays in Criticism Covers the whole field of English Literature from the time of Chaucer to present.
		Oxford University Press	v. 50, no. 1 (2000) -- present
	Far Eastern Quarterly Continued by The Journal of Asian Studies.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 15 (1941 - 1956)
	Forum for Modern Language Studies Articles on all aspects of literary and linguistic studies.
		Oxford University Press	2001-
	Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 59 (1936 - 1999)
	Hemingway Review Features scholarly articles on Ernest Hemingway.
		Project Muse	v. 23 (2003) -- present
	Hispania
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 82 (1917 - 1999)
	Hispanic Review
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 67 (1933 - 1999)
		Project Muse	v. 73, no. 1 (2005) -- present
	Journal of Asian American Studies Official publication of the Association for Asian American Studies.
		Project Muse	v. 1, no. 1 (1998)--present
	Journal of Asian Studies History, arts, social sciences, philosophy, and contemporary issues of Asia.
		JSTOR	v. 16 - 60 (1956 - 2001)
	Journal of British Studies Scholarly journal in the area of British history and civilization
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 41 (1961 - 2002)
		University of Chicago	v. 41, no. 3 (2002) -- present
	Journal of Modern Literature Scholarly articles and reviews of 20th century literature.
		Project Muse	v. 22, no. 2 (1998/1999)
	Journal of Narrative Theory Covers theoretical explorations of the narrative.
		Project Muse	v. 34, no. 1 (2004) -- present
	Language and Literature Publishes anything related to the analysis of literature and language.
		First Search (OCLC)	v. 8, no.1 (1999)-- present
		Sage	v. 8, no. 1 (1999)-- present
	Lateral: revista de cultura Spanish language humanities journal.

	Latin American Research Review Publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as cultural studies, Latino issues and transnationalism.
		Project Muse	v. 38 (2003) -- present
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 36 (1965 - 2001)
	Literature and Medicine Scholarly articles on the intersection of literature and medicine.
		Project Muse	Vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 1995)--present
	Luso-Brazilian Review Journal of Portuguese-Brazilian studies.
		Project Muse	v. 41, no. 1 (2004) -- present
	MELUS Scholarly journal dedicated to multi-ethnic literature in English
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 26 (1974 - 2001)
	MLN Critical studies in modern languages and comparative literature.
		Project Muse	v. 108 (1993) -- present
		JSTOR	v. 77 - 119 (1962 - 2004)
	Modern Asian Studies Research articles on contemporary Asia.
		Cambridge University Press	v. 32 (1998) -- present
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 33 (1967 - 1999)
	Modern Fiction Studies Scholarly articles on modern and contemporary fiction.
		Project Muse	v. 40, no. 3(1994)--present
	Modern Language Journal Scholarly publication for teachers of foreign languages
		First Search (OCLC)	v. 83 - 99 (1999 - 2005)
	Modern Language Notes Critical studies in modern languages and comparative literature.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 76 (1886 - 1961)
	Monumenta Nipponica Journal on Japanese culture and society
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 54 (1938 - 1999)
		Project Muse	Vol. 60 (2005) -- present
	Nabokov Studies A forum of research on Vladimir Nabokov.
		Project Muse	v. 8, 2004 -- present
	Neophilologus
		MetaPress (Springer)	v. 81, no. 1 (1997) -- present
	Nepantla: Views from South Interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences with Latin American perspectives.
		Project Muse	v. 1, no.1 (2000) -- v. 4 (2003)
	New Literary History Journal of literary history.
		Project Muse	v. 26 - 35 (1995 - 2004)
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 35 (1969 - 2004)
	Pendulo (Mexico - Spanish)

	PMLA Publications of Modern Language Association
		JSTOR	v. 4 - 116 (1889 - 2001)
	Poetics Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts
		ScienceDirect	v. 23, no. 1 (1995) -- present
	Poetics Today Concerned with developing systematic approaches to the study of literature.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 20 (1979 - 1999)
	Renaissance Quarterly Interdisciplinary articles and reviews on recent developments in Renaissance studies.
		JSTOR	v. 20 - 54 (1967 - 2001)
	Resources for American Literary Study Traditional scholarship on American literature of all periods.
		Project Muse
	Review of English Studies Emphasis is on historical scholarship rather than interpretive criticism.
		Oxford University Press	Vols. 1-25, 1925-1949; New Series, Vols. 1-48, 1950-1997; v. 52, no. 205 (2001) -- present
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 25 (1925 - 1949) -- v. 1 - 50 (1950 - 1999)
	Russian Linguistics Covers Russian linguistics, grammar, philology
		MetaPress (Springer)	v. 21, no. 1 (1997) -- present
	Russian Review Publishes articles on the culture of Russia
		First Search (OCLC)	v. 57 (1998) -- 2005
		JSTOR	v. 1 - (1941 - moving wall of 5 years)
	Shakespeare Quarterly Articles on all aspects of Shakespeare studies.
		Project Muse	v. 52 - 55 (2001 - 2004)
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 55 (1950 - 2004)
	Slavic and East European Journal
		JSTOR	v. 1 - (1957 - moving wall of 3 years)
	Slavic Review
		JSTOR	v. 20 - (1961 - moving wall of 1 year)
	Small Axe
		Project Muse	v. 5 (2001)-- present
	Social Text Covers a broad spectrum of social and cultural phenomena.
		Project Muse	v. 17 - (1999 - )
		JSTOR	no. 1 - 61 (1979 - 1999)
	Southern Literary Journal Explores the literary and intellectual life of the American South.
		Project Muse	Vol. 33 (2000/01) through current issue
	Steinbeck Studies Scholarship on the life and work of John Steinbeck
		Project Muse	v. 15, no. 1 (2004) -- present
	Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Quarterly issues focus on different periods of English literature.
		Project Muse	v. 39 (1999) -- present
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 44 (1961 - 2004)
	Studies in the Renaissance Articles and reviews on history and art of the Renaissance.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 21 (1954 - 1974)
	SubStance Major interdisciplinary journal with an appeal to a general audience.
		Project Muse	v. 28, no. 2 (1999)--present
	TEXT Discourse studies
		Walter de Gruyter	v. 21, no. 1/2 (2001) -- present
	Tolkien Studies Scholarship on both J.R.R.Tolkien's fiction and his academic work.
		Project Muse	v. 1 (2004)-- present
	Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Scholarship on the relationship between women and writing
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 18 (1982 - 1999)
	Twentieth Century Literature Essays on all aspects of twentieth-century literature around the world.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 47 (1955 - 2001), current issue in print
	Victorian Poetry Scholarship in poets in nineteenth-century Britain and the Commonwealth.
		Project Muse	Vol. 38 (2000) through current issue
	Victorian Studies Scholarly articles on the Victorian era.
		Project Muse	v. 42, no. 1 (1999/2000)--present
	Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature Continues as Contemporary Literature
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 8 (1960 - 1967)
	World Englishes Global varieties of English in their cultural and sociolinguistic contexts.
		First Search (OCLC)	v. 16, no. 1 (1997) -- 2005
	Yale French Studies Scholarly articles on French culture and literature.
		JSTOR	no. 1 - 102 (1948 - 2002)
	Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory A narrative bibliography of work in the field of critical and cultural theory
		Oxford University Press	v. 9, no. 1 (2002) -- present
	Year's Work in English Studies The qualitative narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English.
		Oxford University Press	v. 80, no. 1 (2001) -- present
eBooks
	American Heritage Reference work on proper writing style

	Cambridge History of English and American Literature 18 volumes of essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.
			Originally published in print between 1907-1921
	Collins Concise Spanish Dictionary Bilingual dictionary that covers Spanish and English words and expressions.

	Columbia World of Quotations Entries from more than 5,000 authors and speakers are multiply classified into 6,500 subjects

	Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Derivation, source, or origin of common phrases, and allusions found in fables

	Ebrary Internet-based library of over 30,000 electronic volumes

	Elements of Style Classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer

	Encyclopedia of language and linguistics

	Joyce Studies Annual James Joyce schloraship
		Project Muse	2001 - 2003
	Literary History of the American West Spnsored by the Western Literature Association
			Published in 1986
	Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages

	NetLibrary Collection Collection of full-text electronic books.

	Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED Online) The definitive English language dictionary and record of English language development.

Web Sites
	Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature

	American Verse Project American poetry, American literature

	Archiespa: Indice de paginas Web sobre archivos en Espana A guide to Web sites of archives in Spain, their contents, archival institutions and directories.

	ARL Latin Americanist Research Resources Pilot Project The ARL Latin American Research Resources Project includes LAPTOC, an index to tables of contents of more than 800 journals published in Latin American countries and an official publications site with fulltext of presidential messages from Mexico and Argentina.

	Asia Bulletin Calendar of Asia-related events in the New England area.

	Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents

	Bartleby.com Public domain literary works.

	Biblioteca Digital Cervantina Complete works of Miguel de Cervantes, searchable and in Spanish

	Bibliotecas espanolas Links to the major national and university libraries in Spain and their catalogs.

	Bibliotecas Especializadas Links to special libraries of major institutes, banks, hospitals and foundations in Spain.

	Centro Virtual Cervantes - CVC Gateway to Spanish language and culture

	Chicano Literature Index

	Clamor Publico, El Entire run (1855 to1859) of 233 issues of this Spanish language newspaper
			1855-1859
	Dartmouth Dante Project The Dartmouth Dante Project database contains the full text of "La Commedia" & commentaries

	Diccionario de escritores de Mexico Bio-bibliographic dictionary of contemporary Mexican writers, with images.

	Diccionario de Spanglish Includes examples of usage and translations in English and Spanish.

	Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls Long runs of the major dime novel series (Frank Leslie's Boys of America, Happy Days, Beadle's New York Dime Library, etc.)

	E-text archives Searchable archive of texts of fiction, poetry, history, politics and religion

	Electronic Text Center Internet-accessible collection of SGML texts and images

	Electronic Text Collections in West European Literature Literary texts in the western European languages other than English.

	English to Spanish/Spanish to English Business Glossary Business terms, including financial, management and commercial vocabulary

	Famous Hispanic Writers List of major writers from Spain and Latin America with some links to texts.

	Gulliver's Travels

	Hispanic Reading Room, Library of Congress Information on the printed and online collection at the Library of Congress related to the Hispanic world.

	Iberian Languages & Literatures (Peninsular) Resources for the study of the languages and literatures of Spain and Portugal.

	Iberian Studies Web Gateway to scholarly Internet resources on Spain and Portugal.

	Labyrinth Library: Iberian Texts A resource site for Medieval Studies, with a section devoted to Spanish and Portuguese texts-historical, vernacular, and translations.

	LANIC Links to wide range of country and subject information on the internet related to Latin American and Chicano and Latino studies.
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	LAVA: Latin American Video Archives Latin American video finding aid.

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