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Research by Subject - English

General Databases
Project MUSE 
America: History and Life 
Historical Abstracts 
Humanities/Social Sciences Retro
Readers’ Guide Retrospective

Reference Databases
Oxford English Dictionary 
Credo Reference Library  
Gale Virtual Reference Library 
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism 

Guide to Research in English.
A complete and useful source for doing research in English studies.
 

Good Databases for This Subject

MLA International Bibliography 1920s -
Literature, language and linguistics, folklore.

Academic Search Premier
A good sources for journal articles, many full-text, in all disciplines.

JSTOR 1800s -
Full text backfiles of scholarly journals.

Literature Online (LION)
English and American literature and criticism.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Another good multidisciplinary database to try.

Film Literature Index 1976 - 2001
Citations to film, television and video articles.

Primary Source Databases

American Periodical Series, 1740-1900
Full text of historically significant periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900.
Women Writers Online
Searchable texts by pre-Victorian women writers from the Brown University Women Writers Project.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, and other material.