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Provides full-text access to information and background articles about every topic from across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
A historical dictionary that provides a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Provides multidisciplinary and multilingual coverage of humanities and social sciences. Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and reports.
Indexes the worldwide literature (excluding the United States and Canada) for history from 1450 to the present. Includes journals, books and dissertations.
Subject Matter Timeframe: 1450 - Current
Dates of Coverage: 1955 - Current
A fully searchable library of over 350,000 full-text works of English and American literature. Includes several literary databases of poetry, plays and fiction as well as general reference works and links to other Internet sites.
Facsimiles of literary manuscripts, including letters, diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, from the medieval period to 1900.
Subject Matter Timeframe: 5th Century - 19th Century
Dates of Coverage: 400 A.D. - 1900
Contains page scans of books printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, as well as English-language works printed elsewhere from 1473–1700.
Contains searchable full-text images of books, almanacs, broadsides, magazines, pamphlets, and other materials published in the British Isles and North America from 1700-1800.