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  1. Academic Search Premier
    The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full-text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full-text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
  2. Academic Universe/LEXIS(R)-NEXIS(R)
    National newspapers and legal references.
  3. Acta Sanctorum
    Collection of documents examining the lives of saints.
  4. African Writers Series
    Key texts of modern African literature including fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction prose.
  5. African-American Poetry
    The early history of African American poetry, from c.1746 to the major poets of the nineteenth century.
  6. Alexander Street Literature 
    A comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender.
  7. American Film Institute Catalog
    Film records with detailed subject and music indexing, plot summaries and production notes.
  8. American Film Scripts Online
    Contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
  9. American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
    Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
  10. American Poetry
    Poems from the Colonial Period to 20th Century.
  11. Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
    Includes monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations.  Coverage from 1920-current (limited coverage 1892-1919).
  12. Artstor
    More than 200,000 art and historic images made from slides.
  13. Asian American Drama
    Contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
  14. BertoltBrechts Werke
    This edition is based on Bertolt Brecht - Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden - Jubiläumsausgabe um 100. Geburtstag.
  15. Bible in English
    Contains 20 versions of the Bible.
  16. Biography Resource Center
    Contains biographies of over 300,000 people from hundreds of reference books and magazine articles.
  17. Biography and Genealogy Master Index
    Provides an index to over 13 million biographical sketches from numerous biobraphical sources.
  18. Black Drama
    Contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
  19. Black Short Fiction
    Contains stories, folktales, and short fiction by African, African American, and Caribbean authors.
  20. Black Women Writers
    Fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean.
  21. Book Review Index
    Online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications.
  22. Britannica Online
    Consists of the Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition), the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, etc.
  23. British Periodicals 
    Provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.
  24. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
    Integrated bibliographic coverage of books and official publications, archives, and articles published in journals, magazines and newspapers.
  25. The CQ Researcher
    Includes complete full-text of The CQ Researcher and Editorial Research Reports from 1923 to the present.
  26. Caribbean Literature
    19th and 20th century Caribbean poetry and fiction written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.
  27. Communication & Mass Media Complete
    Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
  28. The CQ Researcher
    Includes complete full-text of The CQ Researcher and Editorial Research Reports from 1923 to the present.
  29. Contemporary Authors Online 
    Offers access to current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors.
  30. DIDO
    The Indiana University Department of the History of Art DIDO Image Bank is dedicated to the storage of low resolution (72 dpi) images from the Fine Arts Slide Library collection of over 320,000 images. Encompassing the full breadth of art historical periods and media, the Image Bank contains some 20,000 images from our collection.
  31. Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online 
    Provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
  32. DigitaleBibliothek Deutscher Klassiker
    Works of major German authors spanning eleven centuries. 
  33. Directory of Open Access Journals
    Open access scientific and scholarly journals.
  34. Early American Fiction, 1789-1850
    More than four hundred works of American prose fiction published before 1850.
  35. Early American Fiction, 1789-1875
    More than 700 first editions of American novels and short stories.
  36. Early English Books Online
    This collection includes virtually all books printed between 1473-1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere during this time period.
  37. Early English Prose Fiction
    Contains 211 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700.
  38. Early Modern Literary Studies
    A refereed journal. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  39. Economist Historical Archive 
    Delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003.
  40. Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare
  41. Eighteenth Century Collections Online
    Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800, it captures the essence of the Enlightenment in Great Britain during this period.
  42. Eighteenth-Century Fiction
    A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 17001780 by writers from the British Isles.
  43. English Drama
    Contains 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late 13th to early 20th centuries
  44. English Poetry Database
    Complete English poetic canon from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the nineteenth century.
  45. American Film Scripts Online
    Contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
  46. Film Index International
    From the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters - and biographical information for almost 57,000 personalities.
  47. Gale Literary Index
    A master index to the major literature products published by Thomson Gale. It combines and cross references author names (including pseudonyms and variant names) and titles in one source.
  48. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online 
    Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia devoted to music research as well as hundreds of audio examples.
  49. GoethesWerke im World Wide Web
    First work originally published: Goethes Werke. Weimar : H. Böhlau, 1887-1919. 2nd work originally published: Goethes Gespräche. Leipzig: Biedermann, 1889-1896. 3rd work originally published: Goethes Werke, Weimarer Ausgabe. München : Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990.
  50. Grove Dictionary of Art 
    (Oxford Art Online) Online edition of the Grove Dictionary of Art, covering all aspects of the visual arts.
  51. New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians on the Web 
    (Oxford Music Online) Electronic version of the popular encyclopedia.
  52. Historical New York Times
    Full content of The New York Times from 1851-2006.
  53. Image Collection (EBSCOhost)
    Includes over 460,000 historical and contemporary photographs and images of people, places, nature, maps, and flags, with an emphasis on world news and events. 
  54. IN Harmony 
    Features Indiana-related sheet music - sheet music by Indiana composers, arrangers, lyricists or publishers as well as sheet music about the state.
  55. Informe (In English)
    Index to Spanish language periodicals and more.
  56. Informe! (In Spanish)
    Index to Spanish language periodicals and more.
  57. Ingenta
    Formerly CARL UnCover: Indexing/abstracting of thousands of journals and provides tables-of-contents and an article notification service.
  58. International Index to Music Periodicals
    Half a million indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular.
  59. International Index to the Performing Arts
    Over 400,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to the present, covering film, theatre, and dance.
  60. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period  
    Includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842.
  61. IU Press Online (IUPO)
    Provides access to online journals and books published by IU Press, focusing on the areas of music, philosophy, Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies, Jewish and Holocaust studies, African studies, and African American and diaspora studies.
  62. JSTOR
    Collection comprised of fully-searchable backfiles of journals in various disciplines, such as African-American Studies, Economics, History, Literature, Sociology, etc.
  63. Latin American Women Writers 
    Includes a  searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
  64. Latino Literature
    Contains approximately 299 plays and over 51,000 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States.
  65. Lit Finder
    Includes Poem Finder (100,000 full text poems and more!) and Story Finder (full-text of thousands of short stories plus analysis and more!)
  66. Literature Criticism Online
    Includes: Contemporary Literary Criticism; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism; Shakespearean Criticism; Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Short Story Criticism; Drama Criticism; Children's Literature Review and Literature Criticism from 1400-1800.
  67.  Literature Resource Center
    Includes information about authors, literary criticism and more
  68. Literary Index 
    A master index to the major literature products published by Thomson Gale. It combines and cross references author names (including pseudonyms and variant names) and titles in one source.
  69. Merriam-Webster
    Online Dictionary and Thesaurus.
  70. MLA Directory of Periodicals
    The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
  71. MLA International Bibliography
    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 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
  72. Naxos Music Library [NML] 
    The world's largest online classical music library.  Please make sure to log out of Naxos' website when finished.
  73. netLibrary
    A collection of electronic books, both scholarly and popular, in a variety of fields.  To check out and read an eBook in this collection, you must first create a free NetLibrary account here.
  74. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians on the Web
    Online version of the popular music encyclopedia.
  75. New York Times (Historical)
    Full content of The New York Times from 1851-2006.
  76. 19th Century British Library Newspapers Digital Archive
    Published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
  77. North American Indian Drama  
    Contains 172 plays by 33 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
  78. North American Theatre Online
    Provides detailed reference information on all aspects of the Canadian and American theatre.
  79. North American Women's Drama
    Contains 715 plays by 152 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
  80. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
    Includes essays from the well-known "Opposing Viewpoints" book series.
  81. Oxford Art Online 
    Online edition of the Grove Dictionary of Art, covering all aspects of the visual arts.
  82. Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online)
  83. Oxford Music Online 
    Includes Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
  84. Patrologia Latina 
    Comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. 
  85. Periodicals Archive Online
    Backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
  86. Periodicals index online 
    An index to tables of contents of periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
  87. Philosopher's Index
    Abstracts covering scholarly research in philosophy since 1940.
  88. Project Gutenberg
    Includes Light Literature (Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables), Heavy Literature (Bible, Shakespeare, Milton) and Reference Texts (Roget's Thesaurus, dictionaries, almanacs).
  89. Project MUSE
    Provides access to over 350 high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.
  90. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
    Contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.
  91. 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Digital Archive 
    Archive of newspapers published mostly in London; however, also includes some English provincial newspapers as well as Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
  92. South and Southeast Asian Literature 
    A searchable collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia, focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras.
  93. Statistical Abstract of the United States
  94. (Theatre) North American Theatre Online
    Provides detailed reference information on all aspects of Canadian and American theatre.
  95. Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
    Track the literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th century. More than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than 5,000 issues of the TLS are available, and-for the first time-the identities of anonymous contributors are disclosed. 
  96. Twentieth Century American Poetry
    50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets.
  97. Twentieth Century North American Drama
    Contains 1,122 plays by 170 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
  98. Victorian Women Writers Project
  99. Wright American Fiction Collection
    Collection of American novels published between 1851-1875.
  100. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
    Includes narrative bibliographies of the year's work in critical and cultural theory.
  101. Year's Work in English Studies
    Provides an annual overview of the year's publications in English language and literature.

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