English

= Recommended Starting Database

Subject Databases

• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (some full-text)
• Literature Online (LION)
• MLA International Bibliography

Some Related Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Cairn
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs
• Canadian Newsstand
• Canadian Periodical Index
• Canadian Publishers Collection
• ChoiceReviews.online
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Dissertations and Theses (Proquest)
• Eureka.cc (Biblio Branchée) 
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Studies)
• Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984
• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• JSTOR
• Novelist
• NovelList
• Ontario Scholars Portal WorldCat 
• Cambridge Suite(alternative access)
• Oxford Suite(alternative access)
• Project MUSE 

Primary Source Material

• Early English Books Online
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• Eighteenth Century Journals
• English Short Title Catalog
• Nineteenth-century short title catalogue
• Orlando Database

Some Internet Portals

• BUBL Link: American Literature - general
• BUBL Link: American Literature - from 1900
• BUBL Link: American Literature - to 1900
• BUBL Link: Canadian Literature
• BUBL Link: English Language
• BUBL Link: English, Scottish and Irish Literature
• English Literature on the Web

Research Aids

General

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Canadian Poetry Archive
• Interplay
• John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
• Literature Resource Center
• Masterplots: 2,010 plot stories & essay reviews from the world's fine literature. (In Print - 2nd Floor: Ref. PN 44 M33 1976)

Book Reviews

• Book Review Digest Restrospective: 1908-1982
• Canadian Book Review Annual (on-campus use only)

Biographies

• Canada's Early Women Writers

Dictionaries

• Dictionary of Literary Terms (In Print - 2nd Floor: Ref. PN 41 C83 1991)
• Dictionary of Old English
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
• OED (Oxford English Dictionary)
• Online Etymological Dictionary
• Online Scottish Dictionary

Encyclopedias

• Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
• Encyclopædia Britannica On-line
• Encyclopædia Universalis
• Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
• Encyclopedia of Semiotics
• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
• The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online