Black Women Writers - Fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa & the Caribbean. It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions.

Book Review Digest Retrospective - Coverage: 1905-1982. Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction in the English language.

Chicago Manual of Style Online - The 16th edition.

Chicano Database (OCLC) - Bibliographic index representing all types of material for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for and about Chicanos. Coverage: 1960s-present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s. Also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database - More than 900,000 catalog records for child-focused media and 130,000+ critical reviews of thousands of children's books.

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete - More than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series.

Dragonsource Chinese Magazines - The premier Chinese language online periodical resource.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Page images of 125,000 titles published between 1475-1700, representing nearly every work published in English during that time. EEBO includes publications in all subjects: literature, religion, government, medicine, science, and music. EEBO provides the facsimile of each work, so researchers can study these publications as they appeared.

Elsevier Journals (Science Direct) - Over 620 full-text research journals from Elsevier. The years for which full-text is available will vary for each journal.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Britannica Book of the Year.

Essay and General Literature Retrospective - Covers 1900- 1984. Offers access to 300,000+ essays in collections from the US, the UK and Canada. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.

Fuente Academica - Full text for >200 scholarly Spanish language journals in areas of business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.

Gale's Literature Resource Center - Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of >120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes signed essays on >1,600 authors and literary genres from Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors contain the full text of 600 Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.

Hand Press Book Database (OCLC) - Includes records for European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830) from the Consortium of European Research Libraries. Records come from national cataloging projects & individual libraries' databases.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (CSA) - Abstracts of the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Coverage: 1973+

Literature Criticism Online (Gale) - NEW! One-stop search for literary reviews from centuries ago to today. Includes these 10 series: Contemporary Literary Criticism; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism; Shakespeare Criticism; Literature Criticism 1400-1800; Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Short Story Criticism; Drama Criticism; Children’s Literature Review.

Literature Online (LION) - More than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and key criticism and reference resources.

Magill On Literature (Ebsco) - MagillOnLiterature Plus combines MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.

Mango Languages - Learn a language online! Currently has 9 "complete" languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Greek), 15 ESL versions (including Spanish, Portuguese, Polish) and 37 "basic" languages, including Pirate!

MLA International Bibliography - Subjects include literature, language & linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing & publishing. Listings on rhetoric & composition and the history, theory & practice of teaching language & literature are also included. Coverage: 1926-present.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories - includes 71 authors and approximately 10,000 pages of information which provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.

North American Women's Drama - Currently contains 235 plays by 67 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries - Scope is from Colonial times to 1950. A detailed record of clothing, food, amusements, work, & religious activities.

Original Sources - A compilation of thousands of historical sources, including original documents, eyewitness accounts, and classical historical accounts. Materials are arranged in 8 major categories: World History; U.S. History; Science and Mathematics; Social Science; Literature; Political Science and Law; Language; Philosophy & Religion.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) - The authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online - Oxford's top-of-the-range, unabridged bilingual dictionaries, available in Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700 - The quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. This database from Adam Matthew Digital contains manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA.

Periodicals Index Online (was Periodical Contents Index) - Index to articles in the arts, humanities & social sciences (1770-1995)

Philosopher's Index - A bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy going back to 1940.

Play Index - Search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. Covers plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search by title, author, subject, style, genre, cast type.

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period - contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.

Shakespeare Quarterly - Shakespeare Association of America's journal of article, book, and theater reviews.

Short Story Index - (1984-1999) Index to English short stories that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals.

Something About the Author (GALE) - Thousands of illustrated biographical profiles of children's authors and illustrators for researchers of children's and young adult literature. Displays personal data, addresses, career, awards and honors, writings, sidelights, adaptations, additional sources and more.

Spanish Reference Center (Britannica) - Encyclopedic references in Spanish: Enciclopedia Moderna for high school ages and up, and Britannica Escolar Online for ages 6-12.

Tell Me More Language Learning - Currently offers English (ESL/ESOL), Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch. Focuses on all major areas of language learning (speaking, comprehension, reading, and writing). Benefit from 37 different types of exercises to learn reading, writing, listening, speaking, and culture.

Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive - (1902-2005) Contains the full text of every issue of the Times Literary Supplement published between 1902 and 2005. Contains 250,000 reviews, poems, letters and articles from 5,000 issues.

Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 - by Bohls, Elizabeth A. (NetLibrary)