Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (see Shakespeare)

Essay & General Literature Index
Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada 1985 to present. More than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications indexed annually. Includes full bibliographic information for the titles in which the collected works are found. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
A source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.  HAPI currently provides over 34,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.

JSTOR Journal Archive
Stores hundreds of scholarly journals in full-text format, including many social science journals.  Journals can be searched by title or subject, individually or in groups.  For each journal, articles from the first volume through to two to five years before today’s date are available.  Here's why.

Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline, covering more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
LexisNexis includes articles in full text from over 350 newspapers from around the world, including the New York Times back to 1980, as well as from magazines and journals, such as The New Yorker and Newsweek. Search for book reviews and articles on writers and trends in the literary world. (Select "Book, Movie, Music, Play and Video Reviews" from the "Select Sources" pull-down menu in the News search tab.) LexisNexis also includes publications in other languages.

MLA Bibliography 
A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1926 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial Period -- 1950
When complete, North American Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled.  Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of 1,500 women to researchers, students, and general readers.

Oxford English Dictionary
The electronic version of the print dictionary. Includes documentation of history of words that helps explain why a word has come to have a particular meaning.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
The OLDO is your gateway to unabridged bilingual dictionaries in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Chinese, soon expanding to include Japanese and Polish. Includes usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, and contextualized language reference help, including notes on life and culture. Finally, a key feature is the native speaker audio pronunciation, allowing you to hear how words actually sound.

PRISMA
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. PRISMA features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content. Articles examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies, from research on indigenous cultures past and present to current economic indicators, politics and society, and Hispanic theatre. Coverage includes Anthropology, Business and Economics, History, Literature, Political Science and Sociology.

Shakespeare (CD-ROM available at library reference desk)
Full-text of eleven major editions from William Shakespeare's works from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works, and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Websites

Paris Review
Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, this site offers both print and audio interviews about writing conducted with almost every major American writer who has published during the last 50 years.

Women Writers Online
A product of Brown University's Women Writers Project (WWP), this online resource provides full text access to hundreds of documents and works of literature writen by women, covering a period from 1400 to 1850.