Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews of writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Includes: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Interdisciplinary index and full text database covering many academic journals from many fields of study.
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, including many peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for journals and other publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Offers coverage of virtually every academic, scholarly
and professional discipline, delivering titles for all kinds of research.
Scholars can access select titles from university and academic presses such as SAGE, Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, and Scribner. Educators will find select professional development titles from ISTE, ASCD, and Corwin Press.
The world’s leading scholars discuss research and the latest thinking in the fields of Philosophy & Religion. Select Unlocked and Free, left of the results list.
Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.
The premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
Provides access to the only comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by American universities from 1902 to the present. Citations include a link to access the full text, when available, via the institutional Repository where the thesis or dissertation is house.
A free resource accessible to all researchers, American Doctoral Dissertations is available on the EBSCOhost® platform, and the content is available via EBSCO Discovery Service™.
Publishes open-access, peer-reviewed reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology) from 1990 to the present.
A wealth of Knowledge can be explored through Exhibitions, by Places, by Dates.
Brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.
DPLA is a portal that delivers students, teachers, scholars, and the public to incredible resources, wherever they may be in America.
DPLA is a platform that enables new and transformative uses of our digitized cultural heritage.
DPLA seeks to multiply openly accessible materials to strengthen the public option that libraries represent in their communities.
Reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as broadly as possible.
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
An online literary magazine of poetry and poetics edited and published, independently by William Slaughter. Never in and never out of print...
MUDLARK publishes in three formats: “issues” of MUDLARK are the electronic equivalent of print chapbooks; “posters” are the electronic equivalent of print broadsides; and “flash” poems are poems that have news in them, poems that feel like current events.
This is an anthology in progress of writing in English from 1650-1800. Many of the texts have been freshly edited and annotated to provide authoritative and curated editions for the use of students and general readers, and to create an alternative to expensive print anthologies.
This project is open-access, and the texts are available for anyone to use as they wish. We also invite others to join in the project by editing and annotating texts of their own, which can be incorporated in the site to create a free, open-access anthology of reliable works for use in the classroom.
This site from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) presents hundreds of brief biographies of important historical figures.From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2016.
Writing resources and instructional material to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.
A fully browseable, searchable and annotated digital archive of the life and works of Thomas Gray (1716-1771), one of the most versatile 18th-century poets. The Archive aims to make Gray's work accessible to scholars, teachers, students, and the general reader.
It provides access to high quality primary sources and secondary materials and constitutes a networked effort of institutions and individuals engaged in making Gray's works available digitally, thus partaking in and benefiting from collaborative scholarship online.
The collection of correspondence, literary manuscripts, books, proofs, and associated items represent periods of Whitman's life from his early time living in New York, middle-age in Washington, D.C., and the last phase of his life in Camden, New Jersey. The papers include primary documentation of Whitman's friends and family; his experience as a civil servant and hospital volunteer in Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War; his contributions as a lecturer and social commentator; and his decades-long career as a journalist, prose writer, literary and arts critic, and poet.
Browse dozens of fiction genres for hundreds of titles, authors, subjects, characters, locations, and more, ranked by popularity in the world's libraries.
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