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Dictionary of Literary Biography
Contains dictionary entries, essays, photos, letters, and book jackets for over 12,000 international authors, works, and topics.

Dates of Coverage: All Time Periods
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Biographies of women and men who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.

Subject Timeframe: Roman Times - 21st Century

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
JSTOR
Archive of articles from scholarly journals for arts, sciences, social sciences and humanities. Includes selected book chapters and primary sources.

Dates of Coverage: 1600s - Current
Project MUSE
Full text of books and journals from university presses and scholarly societies in the humanities and social sciences.

Date of Foundation: 1993
Dates of Coverage: Various

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
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