| General sources that cover English |
| Academic OneFile |
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| Academic Search Premier |
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| General OneFile |
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Core sources for English |
| Book Review Index Online Plus |
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| This resource is provided courtesy of DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library. Book Review Index Online Plus includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic, as well as full text via links to library holdings. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more. |
| Books & Authors |
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| Books & Authors, provided by DISCUS, enables searching for a vast array of information about plot summaries, author information, award lists, and much more. The information that is provided comes from over 30 different sources. |
| Early English Books Online |
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| Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital images of texts printed between 1473 and 1700. Included are virtually all texts printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, North America and other English language books. |
| Early English Books Online TCP |
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| The Early English Books Online Text Creation Project(EEBO TCP) provides searchable text for approximately 25,000 works, based upon the digital images found in EEBO. The works included in this resource date between 1473 and 1700. |
| Gale's Literary Index |
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| Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references about 146,000 author names, including pseudonyms, variant names and listings for over 193,000 titles into one source. |
| Irish women poets of the Romantic period |
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| Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842 and is a full-text resource. The database also offers numerous biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project. New content is added to the collection on a regular basis. It currently contains over 10,000 pages of poetry. |
| JSTOR |
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| JSTOR offers full-text on-line access to back issues of more than 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Issues are entered on-line after having been published for 2-5 years. The entire printed matter of the journal as published is included, and coverage for most titles begins with their starting issues. |
| Literature Resource Center |
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| Literature Resource Center, provided by DISCUS, allows access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles. |
| Literature Resources from Gale |
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| This powerful tool can be used to search several Gale literature resources simultaneously, including LitFinder, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne’s Authors Series. |
| LitFinder |
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| This resource is provided courtesy of DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library. LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more. |
| MLA Bibliography |
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| MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. |
| Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection |
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| The Premium Collection combines quick reference coverage of the full subject spectrum with the rich resources of the Oxford Companions. From ready-reference to comprehensive scholarly articles, The Premium Collection provides librarians and end-users with reliable and authoritative answers to their research questions. |
| Project Muse |
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| Project MUSE provides only full-text articles from over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Every title in Project MUSE is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal. |
| Scottish women poets of the Romantic period |
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| Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period is a definitive collection that provides all full-text sources. In addition to 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, the database includes extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays specially commissioned for the project by Alexander Street Press. |
| Scribner Writers Series |
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| The Scribner Writers Series, provided by DISCUS, includes 1,600+ essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods. Many authors are seen from multiple perspectives and contain a broad biocritical overview as well as specialized treatments. Each essay includes a concise introductory preface and a biography placing the author's work within a personal and historical framework. |