Literature Databases

Core Databases for Literature

JSTOR: Articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Literature Criticism Online: Full-text criticism from Gale Literary Criticism series titles.
Literature Resource Center: Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
MLA Bibliography: Essential index to publications on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Project Muse: Articles from journals covering literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, gender studies and more.

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost): Full-text coverage of periodical articles on timely topics.
Arts & Humanities Search: Indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from more than 5,800 social science and science journals.
Columbia Grangers World of Poetry: Index to poetry and information about poets.
Play Index: Index to more than 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present.

netLibrary: Collection of e-books in all subject areas including classic literary works in the public domain.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED): The premier historical dictionary of the English language.
Reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.)