Language and Literature

Black Drama. Full-text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

Gale Literary Index. A master index to the major literature products, including literary criticisms. It combines and cross references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and titles into one source. 

InfoTrac OneFile. A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. The study of language and the various fields of linguistics.

MLA International Bibliography. Access to the Modern Language Association's index of critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore.

Project Muse. Mostly humanities and social sciences journal issues available online from Johns Hopkins University Press.

OED online (Oxford English Dictionary)
Entire text of the 22-volume Oxford English Dictionary.

Literature Resource Center. Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analayses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers novelists, essayist, poets, journalists, and other writers. Includes links to Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and more.