Literature & Theatre Arts Databases
Canadian Literary Centre
The Canadian Literary Centre consists of book and reference content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press). ECW Press also provides several individual monographs and biographies, essays and literary criticism. The database includes book reviews, essays, author biographies, and much more. Canadian Literary Centre features full text sources such as Canadian Fiction Studies, Canadian Biography Series, Canadian Writers and Their Works (Poetry and Fiction Series), ECW's Biographical Guide to Canadian Novelists, ECW's Guide to Canadian Poets, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Fiction, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, Essays on Canadian Writing, Books in Canada, Quill & Quire, Textual Studies in Canada, University of Toronto Quarterly and many more.
·Type: full text
Literary Reference Center
Full text information on thousands of literary authors and their works. Literary Reference Center includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, full text of over 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by Fall 2006), 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures. In addition, Literary Reference Center also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, the Bloom Series of over 500 books from Chelsea House Publishers edited by Harold Bloom, complete content of hundred of literary journals, and hundreds of literary books from Taylor & Francis, ME Sharpe, Peter Lang, Oxford University Press and many other publishers.
·Type: full text
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
A comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced since 1962. Containing over 110,000 annotated entries, this collected information is useful for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England.
·Type: citations and abstracts
·Coverage: 1962 -
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database contains indexing for over 8,000 publications covering virtually every area of academic study. More than 3,600 of these are peer-reviewed, full text journals.
· Coverage: 1975 - (for more than 100 of the journals)
· Type: citations, abstracts and full-text
Humanities International Complete
This is a comprehensive database of humanities content which provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing, it provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.
·Type: citations and full text
ArticleFirst - OCLC
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: Jan. 1990-; daily
· Citations
WorldCat Database (the OCLC Union Catalog)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 48 million bibliographic records representing books and other materials (but not journal articles) in 400 languages. Covers information back to 2100 B.C. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world as well as records describing selected internet resources. Includes the
Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Accesses hundreds of full text Christian books including: creeds, liturgies, church fathers, literature, history, hymns, theology, mysticism and sermons.
·00 Type: full text
Gale's Literary Index
Index to the major literature series published by the Gale Group, containing biographies on more than 137,000 authors and critical essays on their writings.
·11 Coverage: all series issues
·22 Type: Citation index
Victorian Women Writers Project
A collection of the full text of works of British women writers from the Victorian period. Includes anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
·55 Coverage: 1830-1910
·66 Type: full text
Wright American Fiction
A collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography
American Fiction, 1851-1875, including "novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, in prose".
·77 Coverage: 1851-1875
·88 Type: full text
Project Gutenberg
A collection of public domain books in electronic format. Mainly comprised of classic literature.
·99 Coverage: 1400-
·00 Type: full text