Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from all time periods in many genres. Search by author, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes.

Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.

The MLA Bibliography indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.

The OED Online includes definitions, etymologies, and quotations. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

A collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903

This database provides full-page and article images with searchable full text from the Atlanta world (1931-1932) and the Atlanta daily world (1932-2003). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.

Access to the full text of reviews and articles in the Times Literary Supplement

Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Sentinel.

Online compilation of the Gale literary criticism series.

A fulltext archive of the important 19th-century American publication Harper's Weekly, with faceted search functionality.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research jointly funds Indiana University's subscription to Pivot for all IU campuses.  Pivot is a database of funding opportunities for research.

Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Times.

Archive of the British pictorial weekly, full text and illustrations

Popular British photojournalism magazine, full text and images

This database provides fulltext access to a growing collection of hard-to-find comics produced in North America from the 1960's to the present.

An enhancement of Early American Fiction 1789-1850, this database includes its predecessor and over 300 additional first editions of major fiction titles from the late 18th century to 1875.

This resource offers more than 100,000 early American books, pamphlets, broadsides and rare printed materials. Featuring extensive indexing and full bibliographic information, they together illuminate more than 250 years of American history, literature, culture and daily life.

Full text access to American imprints not included in either Charles Evans's work or Roger Bristol's supplement.

Search full text of British news sources from the late 18th century to the 20th Century.

Full text of New York Times articles from 1851-2013, plus searching using the Times Index 1851-1993. Additional access options for the New York Times are available.

Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources.

Women's travel diaries and correspondence from the early 19th century to the late 20th century.

Full-text digital archive of newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom.

A digital archive of American historical newspapers from the 19th century, including over 1.5 million full-text pages, many complete with images.

2.1 million periodical pages in the first two series from 19th century periodicals published in the UK.

Primary and secondary materials by some of the era's most enduring figures: William Wells Brown, Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Shore.

Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journal articles for most academic disciplines.

Poetry by African American poets from 1760-1900. Includes a variety of poetic styles and types including elegies, odes, ditties, hymns, and sonnets.

Searchable collection of rare and popular literature of race, place, and gender.

The Archive contains newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from international, alternative sources that promote social change.

Digital archive of 1,000 American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, representing every state in the U.S.

Bibliographic database focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada, indexing more than 1,800 journals published, dissertations and reviews.

Full-color digital facsimiles of 18th- and 19th-century American ephemeral publications (broadsides, ballads, programs, sermons, libretti, etc).

Full text of letters, diaries, and memoirs from the American Civil War, with biographies and an extensive bibliography.

Contains 1,100 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. Also includes facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays, as well as writer biographies.

Digital archive of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.

Covers classical languages and literatures, ancient authors, Greek and Latin. Includes brief abstracts of articles.

Historic American publications, books, broadsides, ephemera, newspapers, dating from as early as 1758 through the 20th Century.

Access to twenty versions of the Bible in English with searchable full text. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.

The full text of the Chicago Tribune from 1849-1996 with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Additional access options for the Chicago Tribune are available.

Indexes biographical entries in about 2700 reference books, covering contemporary and historical figures.

Contains more than 600,000 full text biographical entries covering international figures from throughout history.

Contains approximately 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Non-fiction published works of over 1,000 African American leaders, including interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters, etc.

Collection of British and Irish women's personal writings spanning over 400 years.

An abstracting and indexing tool, the Humanities Index includes some 320 UK humanities journals and weekly magazines published in English-speaking countries, as well as UK newspapers.

Provides access to the catalog of the Library's major holdings, developed over 250 years and containing over 150 million items.  Also includes access to digital collections, subject guides, and collection guides.

Comprehensive digital access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles.

Searchable full-text of British periodicals from the late 1600s to the twentieth century.

The online version of the classic guide to documentary style. Access is for the 16th and 17th editions.

Fiction, poetry, manuscripts, archival content, interviews, photographs and other formats, representing writers from the entire Caribbean region.

Complete text of Gale's DLB series.  The DLB covers a wide variety of literary topics, periods, and genres, and includes entries on authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. Although international in scope, it tends to concentrate on American and British literature.

Vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 CE) of the English language.

An enhancement of Early American Fiction 1789-1850, this database includes its predecessor and over 300 additional first editions of major fiction titles from the late 18th century to 1875.

Full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.

Contains every book published in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the United States between 1475-1700.

Contains 211 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700.

A collection of over 6,000 full text books in a variety of subject areas, fully searchable by author, title, and keyword.

Contains many different editions of major and minor works by Shakespeare, including the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774).

Includes significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

Searchable electronic versions of every book published in Great Britain in the 18th century.

Includes the writings of 30 18th-century writers from the British Isles.

English-language works of British, Irish, Scottish and Welsh poets, from the Anglo-Saxon period through the end of the nineteenth century.

Indexes essays and miscellaneous works from printed anthologies and collections.

Based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography, this database covers American life and comprises 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images, from 1639 to 1800.

Catalog of selected works of fiction for adults. Includes references to book reviews, MARC records and publisher directories.

Covers the film and television industry, including movie and television reviews, book reviews, and scholarly articles.

Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources.

Index to journals, chapters and theses about world history, 1450 to present. Consult America: History and Life for coverage of U.S. and Canada.

Includes three indexes: "Palmer's" covering The Times (London) 1790-1905, the Official Index to The Times, 1906-1980 and the NYT 1863-1905 and 1913-1922.

Bibliographic database providing access to scholarly journals in a broad array of the humanities and social sciences.

Covers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast, circus, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and more.

Poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842.

Bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

The Indiana University online catalog.

Covers all aspects of the study of language and contains non-evaluative abstracts of articles from over 1,200 international serials as well as other resources.

Includes full-text of poems, essays and short stories from antiquity to the present.

editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of popular works of literature. search by genre, title, author, subject., age level, characters.

A database of historical twentieth century newspapers.

Full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Amsterdam news.

Access to nytimes.com and via apps. Additional access options for the New York Times are available.

IUB Affiliates: To register for access, go to http://go.iu.edu/registerNYT. Students will be prompted to provide their anticipated graduation date in order to complete the registration process. Once activated, you can access all content at NYTimes.com from a Web browser, as well as via NYTimes.com smartphone and tablet apps, from any location. You will need to renew your IUB Group Pass annually. 

Unaffilated users may access up to 10 free articles (including blog posts, slide shows and other multimedia features) each month on NYTimes.com. This free, limited access resets at the beginning of each calendar month.

A database of full-text reference works in theatre, drama, and related fields, including links to full-text plays.

60,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the present.

Provides selected extracts of book reviews as well as citations to additonal reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.

Entries for over 400 British women writers in a wide variety of genres.

Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Chicago daily defender.

Oxford Scholarship Online contains e-books in the areas of Classics, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion.

Previously known as PCI Full Text, Periodicals Archive Online offers backfiles of over 400 humanities and social sciences journals.

Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Courier.

Includes nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers as well as electronic books published through 2015, in full text.

Provides access to citations from 550 of the leading United States periodicals from 1890-1982.

Only existing online union catalog of auction catalogs; describes art and rare book catalogs from North American and European auction houses and important private sales.

Includes the Arden Shakespeare editions, historical prompt books, illustrations, movie stills, and more.

An index to finding short stories in anthologies, collections, and periodicals.

Biographies of children's authors and illustrators

Collection of various documents, including literature, concerning Black Power and Amiri Baraka (once known as LeRoi Jones)

Provides access to streaming video for theater education.  Includes filmed stage performances, master classes, documentaries, and training material, in addition to playlists, video clips, and on-screen transcripts.

Provides highly accurate transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century.

The full text of the Washington Post from 1877 - 2000, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Additional access options for the Washington Post.

Bibliography of 50,000 publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects--all subjects and languages.

Contains approximately 200 texts written by women in English from 1400-1850.

Provides annotated entries for scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced from 1960 onward. The scope is international. Updated regularly.

Collection of almost 3,000 digitized nineteenth-century American fiction in an ongoing cooperative project of Big Ten university libraries, led by Indiana University.

Primary resources for Asia and the West, British politics and society, British theater and music; and the Corvey collection of European literature