American Literature Research Guide:

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)   Provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including nearly 3,500 (scholarly) peer-reviewed journals.
• Bartleby's English & American Literature links   English and American Literature
• Early English Books Online   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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Women's Letters and Diaries   Scope is from Colonial times to 1950. A detailed record of clothing, food, amusements, work, & religious activities.
• OmniFile (Wilson)   1994-Present Topics: business, education, science, humanities, social sciences, general
• ProQuest Direct (UMI)   Index to 4,000+ periodicals, many full-text. This link searches multiple databases, including Research Library, ABI/Inform, Dissertations & Theses, & ProQuest Newspapers.
• Short Story Index (Wilson)   (1984-1999) Index to English short stories that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals.
• SIRS   Full-text articles on arts, humanities, government & general research.