Library Guides List: Foreign Literatures: Databases

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Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Features page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700.
Early Modern Books This link opens in a new window
Early Modern Books covers material from the British Isles and Europe for the period 1450-1700. An integrated search across both Early English Books Online and Early European Books allows scholars to view materials from over 225 source libraries worldwide. EEBO's content draws on authoritative short-title catalogues of the period and features many text transcriptions specially created for the product. Content from Europe covers the curated Early European Books Collections from 4 national libraries and London's Wellcome Library.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more published mainly in the UK during the 18th century primarily in English. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue.

Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (Jewish Women's Archive) This link opens in a new window
This encyclopedia seeks to make available to all who are interested in Jewish history and culture the varied accomplishments of Jewish women and their many contributions to the Jewish historical experience over the course of the past three millennia.
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
The Archive presents collections of historical documents, covering a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; modern history and Holocaust Studies
Nineteenth Century Periodicals This link opens in a new window
This guide provides a list of 19th century periodicals available online. These periodicals have been digitized and made available to the general public by various institutions. Many of these periodicals also ran before and after the 19th century.
Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922 This link opens in a new window
Created from the Library Company’s Afro-Americana Collection this online resource will provide researchers with more than 13,000 printed works. Books, pamphlets and broadsides that present a record of African American history, literature and culture.
American Indian Histories and Cultures This link opens in a new window
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

Project Gutenberg
A library of over 70,000 free eBooks, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation uses emerging technology to reach and engage a broad audience for poetry. Through its award-winning website, mobile applications, and social media, the Foundation seeks to create new readers of poetry, serve existing poetry fans, and support Foundation initiatives and programs.
LibriVox
Free public domain audiobooks
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 18+ million digitized items. We offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law, text and data mining tools for the entire corpus, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Newspapers published during the 18th and 19th centuries in towns and major cities.

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.
Oxford Bibliographies: American Literature This link opens in a new window
Annotated bibliography combined with an encyclopedia in the subject of American literature.
Oxford Bibliographies: British and Irish Literature This link opens in a new window
Annotated bibliography combined with an encyclopedia in the subject of British and Irish literature

CORE
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. It is, to our knowledge, also the world’s largest collection of full text open access research papers. CORE is a not-for-profit service dedicated to the open access mission.
The Victorian Web
One of the oldest academic and scholarly websites, it entered the Internet in 1994. The Victorian Web takes an approach that differs markedly from many Internet projects. It presents its images and documents, including entire books, as nodes in a network of complex connections. In other words, it emphasizes the link rather than the search tool (though it has one) and presents information linked to other information rather than atomized and isolated
Great Writers Inspire
This collection of freely available literary resources is aimed at students from sixth-form to university, their teachers, and at lifelong learners. It contains lectures, eBooks and contextual essays for reuse by individuals and the educational community. Resources could be included in course packs, browsed for extended project work or in preparation for university study, or set as additional reading around specific central texts. There are thousands of individual items as well as curated thematic and historical collections to help students research and interrogate their literary ideas.

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