American Literature Research Guide:

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  

  Provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including nearly 3,500 (scholarly) peer-reviewed journals.

  Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,043 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.
  

• Early English Books Online (EEBO) (ProQuest)   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.
• Literature Resource Center (Gale)   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.
• MagillOnLiterature Plus (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.
• MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest)   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. Includes MLA Directory of Periodicals.
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street)   North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.  The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. 
• OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO)   Full-text articles from ~3,100 publications across all core subjects, including: Applied Sciences, Art, Education, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences and Technology.
• ProQuest   ProQuest brings together many of the most used databases. It provides access to databases across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports all together on a powerful, user-friendly platform. (ProQuest)
• Short Story Index (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO)   (1984-1999) Index to English short stories that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals.
• SIRS (Pro vs. Con) (ProQuest)   Full-text articles on arts, humanities, government & general research.