Literature

Good for: Creating reading lists or consulting overviews of topics to identify significant scholarship.

Contains: Annotated bibliographies focused on areas of study within a discipline.

Good for: Finding literary criticism.

Contains: Scholarly articles, overviews, and literary reference works.

Good for: Researching literature, literary criticism and theory, and finding interviews with authors and book reviews.

Contains: Poetry, drama, prose, literature criticism journals, e-books, and key reference resources.

Good for: Background information to start your research.

Contains: Dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations, thesauri, and bilingual dictionaries.

Good for: Gathering background information about literary authors and their works.

Contains: Biographical overviews of literary authors.

Good for: Exploring word histories from the early modern period.

Contains: Compilation of dictionaries.

Dates covered: 1480-1702.

Good for: Theatre history research.

Contains: Reference texts, posters, playbills, photos, architectural images, floor plans, and ephemera.

Good for: Finding the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words. 

Contains: Authoritative, researched historical dictionary entries.

Good for: Authoritative, refereed essays reviewing key topics in philosophy. 

Contains: Encyclopedia of philosophy.