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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR includes many journals in the areas of language and literature. Note: coverage varies by title, but the most recent 2-5 years is not available.
MLA International Bibliography: The largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama. MLA provides indexing to scholarly articles in approximately 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, book chapters, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and dissertations. Coverage is from 1926 to the present.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of Wilson full-text databases, including Humanities Full Text, a good resource for finding scholarly undergraduate-level journal articles. Indexing begins in 1984; full-text of selected articles in 1995.
Project Muse: Full-text from nearly 250 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Project Muse includes many journals in the areas of language and literature. Coverage varies by title.

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ARTFL: French-language literary, religious, philosophical, political, and scientific works from the 13th through the 20th centuries, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. ARTFL also includes a Provencal database. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises.
Arts and Humanities Search: An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities. Although this is a citation database, there are links to Centre's e-journal holdings to locate the full text if available. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.
Essay and General Literature Index (OmniFile Full Text Mega): Indexes essays and articles from anthologies and collections published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. This database focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film. Coverage is from 1985 to the present.
Oxford English Dictionary: The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It shows not only the current meanings of words, but also traces their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world.
Oxford Reference Online: Oxford Reference Online includes full-text of more than 125 titles from Oxford University Press. The collection includes authoritative dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Short Story Index (OmniFile Full Text Mega): An index to short stories written in, or translated into, English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. Coverage is from 1984 to the present.

Last updated September 16, 2008