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.

Survey of figures, schools, and movements in literary criticism.

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.

Provides access to the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust.

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.

Collection of full-text, English-language Canadian poetry

Online compilation of the Gale literary criticism series.

Collection of published plays throughout the English-speaking world

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

An online collection of more than 120,000 images of rare and unique library, museum, and archives collections across the United Kingdom.

Database of funding opportunities for research

Bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles

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

Archive of the British pictorial weekly, full text and illustrations

Free, full text, downloadable ebooks for books out of copyright in the U.S.

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.

Provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies from centuries of women's writing.

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.

Electronic version of the Acta Sanctorum, a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day.

Provides full-text access for over 200 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fictional prose by African authors, based on Heinemann African Writers Series. Works are in English or in English translation.

This collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history, with first-hand reports of major events and issues of the day. Includes complete text of articles published in the United States.

Includes poetry by African-American poets from 1760-1900. Covering a wide range of topics from slavery and abolition to love and death, this collection provides a unique portrait of early America through the reflections of African-American poets during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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

The Swinburne Project is a digital collection and scholarly project devoted to the life and work of Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne and to digital encounters with Swinburne's works and related documents and information resources.

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).

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

Contains more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth century. Represented genres include plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues, and others.

Draws its content from six printed volumes and online content that document every American film from 1893 to 1975, with full or short records for films from 1976 to Present.

Contains 1,009 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.

Features works of more than 200 American poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works of the most influential American poets as well as lesser known poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century.

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

Compiled by the Modern Humanities Research Association, ABELL contains more than 880,000 bibliographic records, including monographs, articles, book reviews, essay collections, and dissertations published from 1920 onwards.

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

Search citations from arts and humanities journals published from 1975 to the present. In-library access is available for the years 1975-1994 on a networked CD-ROM.

Begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late-nineteenth century and hosts contemporary playwrights, productions, and biographical and theatrical information. Includes 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Full-text database of Australian creative and critical writing sponsored by eight Australian Universities and the National Library of Australia.

Contains twenty versions of the Bible in English.

The full text of the Chicago Tribune from 1849-1993 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.

Full-text biographical information on more than 528,000 people 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.

Full-text works by black women writers from the U.S. (18th century - 1970s), the Caribbean and Africa (second half of the 20th century).

A collection of over 300 online reference books in the humanities and social sciences.

Database of books and articles for the study of the history of the printed book and libraries

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 Library's major holdings, developed over 250 years and containing over 150 million items.

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.

Sources for research into the 19th century, including the Wellesley Index and the 19th Century Short Title Catalog.

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

Caribbean literature in fiction, poetry, manuscripts, archival content, interviews, photographs and other formats.

Complete text of Gale's DLB series.

A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. Includes over 3,000 different texts in a machine-readable corpus.

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

Electronic access to journals published by Duke University Press in humanities and social sciences

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.

Searchable text of letters, diaries, memoirs and other accounts of early contacts between Europeans and Native Americans in North America.

25,000 fully searchable texts selected from ProQuest's Early English Books Online (EEBO), containing texts published between 1473-1700.

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).

Collection of 10,000 re-keyed, fully searchable 18th-century texts

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.

Portal to British newspapers and periodicals of the 18th century

More than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century.

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

Provides access to essays contained in anthologies and collections.

Over 480,000 records for items published anywhere in Great Britain or its colonies or in English anywhere from printing's beginnings (1473) through the eighteenth century.

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.

A tool produced by the Google search engine that searches the contents of books that they have scanned.

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.

The IMB indexes articles in journals, conference proceedings, collections of essays and Festschriften. Indexing includes materials worldwide in a variety of languages.

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.

Searchable collection of color digital images of rare books, ephemera and other materials relating to popular culture in 19th and early 20th century London.

Prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

Index to journals in linguistics.

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.

Peer-reviewed survey articles covering a broad range of topics in literary scholarship.

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 several historical newspapers from the United States.

European travel writing from the later medieval period.

Access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources.

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.

Resource for studies of Anglo-American literature published before 1930, including periodicals, newspapers, books, patents, image archives, government documents and more.

Catalog that includes 1.2 million works published in Britain, British colonies, and the US, all works in English, and all translations from English.

Full text of letters, diaries, autobiographies, and oral histories of immigrants to America and Canada. Covers 1840 to present, but heaviest focus is on 1920-1980.

256 full-text plays by 49 American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century.

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

A full-text database of plays written by women from the United States and Canada, primarily in the 20th century.

Searchable full text of letters and diaries of hundreds of North American women, from the 16th century to 1950.

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.

Broad and international in scope, this encyclopedia covers all aspects of theatre and performance, from costuming, to actors, to Broadway shows.

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.

Collection of several major British and Continental philosophers spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries.

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.

Free, full text, downloadable ebooks for books out of copyright in the U.S.

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.

Complete book of synonyms and antonyms founded upon Roget's original work with numerous additions and modernizations.

Online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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 60 volumes of poetry from 47 women poets, predominantly Scottish, of the Romantic period.

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

Includes fiction, short fiction, essays, interviews, and manuscript materials written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas.

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.

Collection of poetry surveying the movements, schools, and voices of modern and contemporary American poetry.

Full texts of some 2,000 plays, including all types of U.S. and Candian dramas.

Popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe during the years from 1779 to 1930.

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

annually indexes over 400 journals, representing scholarship in a range of disciplines. The online bibliography covers journals from 1991-2003.

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