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1. Essay and General Literature - WilsonWeb Citations for essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works. Also provides full citations on collective titles indexed. Emphasis on the humanities and social sciences. 2. Literature Criticism Online - Gale Cengage Learning Presents a wide range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Includes criticism of drama, short stories, Shakespeare, classics, children's literature, and Western literature from the 1400's to the present. 3. Literature Resources from Gale (formerly Literature Resource Center) - Gale Cengage Learning Full-text database provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every time period and literary discipline. Also includes overviews of major literary works, Web links, timelines, MLA International Bibliography, Twayne's Authors, and Scribner Writers. Teacher resources available. 4. MLA International Bibliography - Gale Cengage Learning Citations and indexing for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, since 1926. Provides links to selected full text. 5. Periodicals Archive Online - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey) Full-text articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Extensive backfile of early issues. Coverage: 1802-1995. 6. Periodicals Index Online - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey) Comprehensive database with nearly 16 million citations for journal articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Provides links to selected full-text in other databases. Coverage: 1665-1995. 7. Short Story Index - WilsonWeb Index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. Also recommended 1. Alexander Street Literature (formerly World Literature Online) - Alexander Street Press Collection of databases containing literature and primary texts in postcolonial, black, gender, and regional literatures. It contains more than 5,500 plays and more than 250,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and essays from Africa and its Diaspora, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and other regions. 2. American Film Scripts Online - Alexander Street Press Provides accurate and authorized versions of 1008 copyrighted screenplays. Titles include Bringing Up Baby, Network, In the Company of Men, Drugstore Cowboy, Marty, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Thomas Crown Affair, Suspicion, The Shawshank Redemption, Fort Apache, Notorious, and The Last Detail. More info 3. Asian American Drama - Alexander Street Press This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. More info 4. Black Drama - Alexander Street Press This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 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. More info 5. Black Short Fiction and Folklore - Alexander Street Press Black Short Fiction is the most comprehensive collection yet created of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. When complete, it will offer more than 8,000 short stories and folktales, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life. More info 6. Black Women Writers - Alexander Street Press Black Women Writers celebrates the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora. Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries, the database gives an unparalleled view of black women's struggles through time. More info 7. Caribbean Literature - Alexander Street Press Presents fiction and poetry of hundreds of authors in their original language. Also includes manuscripts, archival materials, interviews, photographs, and audio files. More info 8. Daily Life Online - Greenwood Publishing Combines Daily Life through History, Daily Life Premium, and World Folklore and Folklife databases to provide full text information, maps, images, website links, etc. on folklore, cultures, and customs of peoples around the world from ancient times to the present. Teacher resources available. 9. Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online - Gale Cengage Learning Over 16,000 biographical and critical essays on predominantly American and British authors from all eras and genres. 10. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period - Alexander Street Press Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. More info 11. JSTOR - JSTOR Full-text articles from scholarly journals are available (from Volume 1 to issues published 2-5 years ago) in the arts, business, humanities, literature, social sciences, general science, mathematics and statistics. More info NOTE: To view full-text PDF articles, you must allow popups for this site. 12. Latin American Woman Writers - Alexander Street Press Latin American Women Writers is an extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included are essays by Latin American feminists and revolutionaries, who address both the universal concerns of women in every age and the distinctive issues of their struggles in the region. More info 13. Latino Literature - Alexander Street Press The largest collection available of Latino literature, with over 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 400 plays, written by authors of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Chicano, Central American, South American, and Cuban descent living in the United States. In Spanish and English. More info 14. Literary Index - Gale Cengage Learning Master index to Gale series on literary biography and literary criticism. It indexes author names and titles, and provides citations to the print series. More info 15. NetLibrary - OCLC Full-text electronic books in all subject areas. Current collection includes over 50,000 copyright-protected eBooks along with an additional 3400 public-domain texts. More info  - Tutorial 16. North American Indian Drama - Alexander Street Press This first release of North American Indian Drama contains 93 plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes the Native Playwrights' Newsletter, a unique resource, containing a wealth of original essays, articles, photographs, interviews, reviews, and production information related to the plays. 17. North American Women's Drama - Alexander Street Press This edition of North American Women's Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. More info 18. Play Index - WilsonWeb Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. More info 19. Project Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press Full-text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, including arts, history, literature, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more. More info  - Tutorial 20. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period - Alexander Street Press In addition to 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, the database includes extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays specially commissioned for the project. More info 21. South and Southeast Asian Literature - Alexander Street Press South and Southeast Asian Literature is a searchable collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas. Focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras, the collection will also feature author interviews and manuscript materials that will shed additional light on the rich literary heritage and emerging traditions of this region. More info 22. Twentieth Century North American Drama - Alexander Street Press This edition of Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,386 plays by 209 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. More info

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