English Literature Research Guide:

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)   Provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including nearly 3,500 (scholarly) peer-reviewed journals.
• Fiction Connection (Bowker)   Find book suggestions based on books you have already read, authors you like, or topics of interest.
• 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.
• Life in Elizabethan England   A compendium of common knowledge, 1558-1603.
• 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.
• 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.
• Shakespeare Quarterly   Shakespeare Association of America's journal of article, book, and theater reviews.
• SIRS   Full-text articles on arts, humanities, government & general research.