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Key Databases

MLA International Bibliography

Produced by the Modern Language Association and consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It draws on scholarly research in over 5,000 journals and series, also covering relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Contains more than 2.5 million citations to published scholarly literature. User guide/tutorial

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Coverage:
1886+
Updated:
Quarterly
Fulltext:
Selective
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Gale Literature

Alternative/Former Name(s) & Keywords: Gale Literary Sources

Gale Literature provides combined access to Literature Criticism Online (6 multidisciplinary series), Literature Resource Center, and Twayne's Author Series.

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Coverage:
15th century - present
Updated:
Monthly
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
JSTOR

Image backfiles of journals in humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Includes the following collections: Arts & Sciences I through X, Arts & Sciences XII; Life Sciences, Iberoamerica and JSTOR Asia collection. User guide/tutorial

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Coverage:
Varies
Updated:
Varies
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
WorldCat Classic

Collection of all the FirstSearch databases subscribed to by the University Libraries including ArticleFirst, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, World Almanac, WorldCat, and some subject databases.

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Coverage:
Varies
Updated:
Varies
Fulltext:
No
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users

Other Databases

Academic Search Ultimate

Scholarly, multidisciplinary database. Includes more than 9,000 full-text periodicals (7,900+ are peer reviewed) in the social sciences, humanities, and science and technology.

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Coverage:
Many from 1990, some indexed as early as 1887
Updated:
Daily
Fulltext:
Yes, selected
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
African American Poetry

Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It provides a comprehensive survey of the early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

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Coverage:
18th & 19th centuries
Updated:
Static Archive
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection (Series 1-7 via Gale)

This collection brings the Series 1-7 previously distributed by EBSCO more firmly into the 20th century with titles running up to 1923. Going beyond the short date range in the earlier series, it includes the entirety of publishing history in the Colonies and subsequent United States. It extends or fills gaps in issues for approximately 45 titles previously digitized in Series 1-7 and adds more than 150 new periodical titles recently acquired by the AAS.

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Coverage:
18th-20th Century
Updated:
Static Archives
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
American Fiction

This collection encompasses more than 17,500 works of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I, including thousands never before available online. This landmark digital collection is based on authoritative bibliographies including Lyle H.Wright's American Fiction: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography, widely considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult prose fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Geoffrey D. Smith's American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography, comprising nearly three-quarters of all adult fiction published in the United States during this time period.

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Coverage:
1774-1920
Updated:
Static Archives
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1908-1982 (H.W. Wilson)

Excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Covers 300,000 books and 1.5 million book reviews.

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Coverage:
1905-1982
Updated:
N/A
Fulltext:
Yes, selected
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Digital Theatre Plus

DT+ is the leading educational platform for English and Theatre performing arts providing access to 600+ productions, 800+ videos, 450+ interviews and documentaries, and extensive educational resources. It includes critical analysis, theatre history, major reference works on authors, movements, periods, and genres alongside performance and practitioners’ texts, and acting and backstage guides.

Coverage:
Classics through Contemporary
Updated:
Continually
Fulltext:
NA
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 -EEBO contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement. User guide/tutorial

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Coverage:
1473-1700
Updated:
Infrequently
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Database of English-language materials printed in the UK during the 18th century. Also includes limited foreign-language titles and many important works from the Americas. There are over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) of books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue.

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Coverage:
1700 - 1799
Updated:
Regularly
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Film & Television Literature Index

Provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as selected full text. In addition, it includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive. Subject coverage includes: cinematography, film & television theory, preservation & restoration, production, reviews, technical aspects, screenwriting, and more.

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Coverage:
1990+
Updated:
Monthly
Fulltext:
Selected
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Gale Literature Resource Center

Alternative/Former Name(s) & Keywords: Literature Resource Center

Gale's Literature Resource Center focuses on undergraduate students and provides access to biographical, bibliographical, and critical analysis from the core sources Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism, although additional Gale sources are represented. It includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. In addition, it includes a link to the full-text of Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, 1995. Please review the LRC's own "about file" for information on the database's coverage and updates that will appear frequently. User guide/tutorial

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Coverage:
Ongoing
Updated:
Regularly
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Gale Literature: Criticism

Alternative/Former Name(s) & Keywords: Literature Criticism Online

A collection of literary criticism, this resource brings together several multidisciplinary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Includes the full text from volumes since 2013 of the following titles: Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-century Literary Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism

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Coverage:
2012+
Updated:
Monthly
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Gale Primary Sources

Alternative/Former Name(s) & Keywords: Artemis Primary Sources

Platform that searches across all Gale Primary Sources databases UAlbany subscribes to. User guide/tutorial

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Coverage:
18 and 19th centuries
Updated:
N/A
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Historic Literary Criticism

Historic Literary Criticism is a collection of over 20,000 historical contemporary reviews, essays and commentary related to more than 500 influential authors from the 17th to early 20th century. The content comes from a range of sources: from Routledge's Critical Heritage series and supplemented with documents, reviews, and essays drawn from 18th and 19th-century periodicals, including Saturday Review, The Athenaeum, The Contemporary Review and The Bookman.

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Coverage:
17th to early 20th centuries
Updated:
Static Archive
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Humanities Source

Humanities Source provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more. Humanities Source is a valuable collection for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. Full text for over 1,520 journals. User guide/tutorial

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Coverage:
1907 - Present
Updated:
continually
Fulltext:
Yes, selected.
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991

The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929. Over its sixty-two-year history, the Listener attracted the contributions of literary icons such as E. M. Forster, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, and Virginia Woolf. It also provided an important platform for new writers and poets, with W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, and Philip Larkin being notable examples. Articles were diverse and combined reflections on politics and what was in the news with the arts, but not from any partisan clique. The online archive is a rich seam for researchers, politics, writing, theatre, and social observation, but it offers many delights for browsers as well.

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Coverage:
1929-1991
Updated:
Static Archive
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers' Project

The Federal Writers' Project was created by the federal government project to provide jobs for out-of-work writers during the Great Depression. This collection presents the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) publications of all 47 states involved in the project, which ran from 1933 to 1943. Forming the most complete collection of publications from all participating states, this archive contains more than 450 individual items, many of which are typed or mimeographed and received only limited circulation. The FWP was a part of "Federal One,"the arts project established by the WPA to cover music, theater, art and writers. The WPA recognized that steelworkers, bricklayers, share-croppers, and factory workers were not the only section of the economy hit by the Depression. Academics, post-graduate students, journalists, playwrights and novelists were also unemployed. In five years the WPA spent millions, provided literary training and, more significantly, the opportunity for participants to observe, eat, and write.

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Coverage:
1933-1943
Updated:
Static Archives
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
MLA Handbook Plus

MLA Handbook Plus includes the full text of the ninth edition of the handbook. There are no major changes in this edition. New to the ninth edition are hundreds of additional example citations and visuals; expanded guidance on formatting papers, citing sources, quoting and paraphrasing, and avoiding plagiarism; and entirely new sections on inclusive language, annotated bibliographies, and notes.

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Coverage:
NA
Updated:
Infrequently
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Nineteenth Century Collections Online

A database of primary source collections for the 19th Century, primarily British and American, but includes material from other countries. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in Western and non-Western languages. NCCO is selective and material thematically grouped into Archives. Our access is to 7 archives: British Politics and Society; Asia & The West; British Theatre and Popular Culture; Corvey Collection of European Literature; Photography: The World Through the Lens; Women: Transnational Networks; and Religion,Spirituality, Reform and Society

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Coverage:
19th Century
Updated:
Static Archives
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Past Masters

Full text database of 16 philosophers along with Jane Austen's Complete Works and Letters, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Collected Works and Early Letters, and Mary Shelley's Novels and Selected Works. These authoritative editions are in both original languages and English translations.

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Coverage:
Varies
Updated:
Irregularly
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Project MUSE

400 Scholarly journals in literature humanities, social sciences, mathematics, cultural and gender studies from Johns Hopkins University Press. The journal list is available for browsing.

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Coverage:
1993 +
Updated:
Varies
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Project MUSE eBooks

Contains contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from a number of university presses published in 2010 & 2011.

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Coverage:
2010 and 2011
Updated:
Never
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Salem Literature

A database that contains the complete content of printed reference sets from Salem Press owned by the University Libraries. Currently includes Magill's Literary Annuals and Masterplots, 4th edition.

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Coverage:
1977 +
Updated:
Annually Access:
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users IP
Shakespeare Collection

The collection contains a selection of over 200 prompt books (annotated working texts of stage managers and company prompters) from the 17th to 20th centuries, the extensive diaries of Shakespeare enthusiast Gordon Crosse documenting 500 UK performances from 1890 to 1953, the First Folio and Quartos, editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, more than 80 works Shakespeare is thought to have been familiar with, as well as works composed by Shakespeare's contemporaries.

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Coverage:
1517-1975
Updated:
Static Archive
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Short Story Index Retrospective 1915-1983

Bibliographic entries on more than 150,000 short stories published over 150 years; citations to short stories published from the 1830s to the 1980s from 350 periodicals and collections of short stories; links to the full text of thousands of stories online.

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Coverage:
1915-1983
Updated:
N/A
Fulltext:
Yes, selected
Access limitations:
Unlimited users
Times Literary Supplement Digital Archive

The TLS is one of the world's leading journals for literature and ideas. Every week it publishes book reviews, book extracts, essays, and poems from leading writers from around the world. It covers far more than just literature, featuring major articles on subjects from anthropology to zoology, philosophy to politics, comedy to psychology. Each week they also review the latest in fiction, film, opera, theatre, dance, radio, and television. Note: this edition is an exact digital copy of the print edition.

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Coverage:
January 8, 2010 – present
Updated:
Weekly
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Twayne's Authors Series

In-depth critical introduction to over 600 authors from three print series: United States Authors, English Authors, World Authors. It covers a wide range of chronological and geographical locations.

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Coverage:
Various literary time periods
Updated:
N/A
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Twentieth Century American Poetry, 2nd Edition

Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition is an essential collection surveying the movements, schools, and distinctive voices of modern and contemporary American poetry. It combines two existing ProQuest Literature Collections: Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Twentieth-Century African American Poetry. It comprises over 500 volumes of material from established and emergent poets. The collection contains over 100,000 poems representing the full range of American poetry of the last century, from the major Modernist works of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Djuna Barnes to the contemporary works of Robinson Jeffers, Billy Collins, Elinor Wylie and Peter Gizzi.

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Coverage:
20th century
Updated:
Static Archive
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
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