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ENGL 3080 - History of the English Language

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Oxford Reference
Provides full-text access to information and background articles about every topic from across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.

Dates of Coverage: Various
Oxford English Dictionary
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.

Dates of Coverage: All Time Periods
Gale eBooks
Includes selected encyclopaedias, dictionaries and reference works from a variety of disciplines.

Dates of Coverage: Various

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Cambridge Histories
350 volumes offering big picture perspectives covering subject areas across the humanities and social sciences.

Dates of Coverage: 1960 - 2012
FRANCIS
Provides multidisciplinary and multilingual coverage of humanities and social sciences. Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and reports.

Dates of Coverage: 1972 - Current
Historical Abstracts
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
Literature Online (LION)
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.

Dates of Coverage: 6th Century - Current
MLA International Bibliography
Provides access to books, articles, film criticisms, and websites on topics in literature, modern languages, folklore and linguistics.

Dates of Coverage: 1925 - Current

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British Literary Manuscripts Online
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
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
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.

Dates of Coverage: 1473 - 1700
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
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.

Dates of Coverage: 1701 - 1800

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