Proseminar - ENGL 787

On this page:

• Desk-top reference collection
• Primary sources: indexes
  • Indexes
  • Full-text sources (primary)
• Secondary sources
• Newspapers

Desk-top reference collection

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
• American National Biography Online
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Dictionary of Irish Biography
• Oxford English Dictionary Online
• Blackwell Reference Online
• Oxford Reference Online (Premium)
• Oxford Scholarship Online
• Dictionary of Literary Biography Online
• Literary Encyclopedia
• Companion to Digital Literary Studies
• Chicago Manual of Style Online
• MLA handbook for writers of research papers
• OWL (Purdue Online Writing Lab)

Primary sources: indexes

Indexes

• English Short Title Catalogue (1473-1800)
  (an index but the backbone to EEBO & ECCO)
• Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (1801-1919)

Full-text sources (primary)

• British Literary Manuscripts Online
• EEBO (Early English Books Online), 1473-1700
• ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), 1701-1899
• Early American Imprints. Series 1, Evans (1639-1800).
• Early American Imprints. Series 2, (1801-1819).
• Eighteenth Century Journals II: Newspapers and Periodicals, 1699-1812.
• American Periodicals Series Online (1740-1900).
• 17th-18th century Burney Collection Newspapers
• Defining Gender, 1450-1900: Five Centuries of Advice Literature Online.
• Past Masters - (Full text material from Antiquity to Modern).
• Electronic Enlightenment - (17th-18th Century letters, documents, and correspondence).
• North American Theatre Online - (Texts and production info).

Secondary sources

• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
• MLA Bibliography
• ABELL online
• Periodicals Archive Online
• LION, 600-1903 (Literature Online)
• Annotated Bibliography of English Studies
• International Medieval Bibliography
• Bibliographie Internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance
• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• IIPA (International Index to the Performing Arts)
• Theatre in Video
• Cambridge Histories Online
• Shakespeare Collection Digital Archive
• World Shakespeare Bibliography
• CPI.Q
• Canadian electronic library. Canadian publishers collection.
• Canadian Literary Centre
• Canadian Reference Centre
• Gender Studies Database
• JSTOR
• Academic Search Premier
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Humanities Full Text (Wilson)
• Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective (Wilson)
• Film Index International
• Film Literature Index Online
• FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals plus
• Films on Demand
• NFB (National Film Board of Canada)
• The Year's Work in English Studies
• The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
• Royal Historical Society Bibliography Online
• Historical Abstracts

• Newspapers

• Gale NewsVault
• American Periodicals Series Online (1740-1900)
• Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)
• New York Times (1851-2007)
• Washington Post (1877-1994)