Oxford Reference Online: 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database. Includes The Oxford Companion to English Literature, The Oxford Companion to American Literature, The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, etc.

Literature Resource Center: Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes Dictionary of Literary Biography [DLB], Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism

Literary Index: An online index of reference books series that includes Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism: Offers succinct, focused articles that provide an overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western perspective.

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Project Muse: Provides online access to the full text of over 300 journals in the disciplines of literary studies, classics, history, philosophy, political science, and the history of science and medicine.

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