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Databases

Academic Search Complete
A broad multi-disciplinary database encompassing areas in art, science, and humanities.
JSTOR (Books, journals, primary sources, & Artstor)
Electronic, full text access to the back files to hundreds of scholarly periodicals in a variety of disciplines in humanities, arts and sciences, social sciences, and business
Literature Criticism Online
This long-standing series profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals
Literary Reference Center Plus
Information on authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
MLA International Bibliography
An index to books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics

ArchiveGrid
Over four million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed from 1474-1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere
Empire Online
Materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences from the late-15th to early-21st centuries. Manuscripts and printed and visual primary sources as well as secondary resources such as scholarly essays, maps, and an interactive chronology.

Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
Offers reference searching and interactive browsing by region, quotations with a complete bibliography extending from the 17th century through the 21st, and maps illustrating where words were collected.
Ethnologue
Catalog of the 7,000+ known living languages of the world.
Oxford English Dictionary
Authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.

CWRU eJournal Portal
The CWRU eJournal Portal is a research tool that allows you to conveniently access the vast array of journals, periodicals, and magazines the CWRU libraries have licensed.

To find related journals through Journal Search, you can type in a journal’s title or ISSN in the Search bar, or you can browse under the English subsection of the Languages & Literatures category to explore available titles.

Here are some eJournal titles for Literature that you can find in Journal Search:

Modern Fiction Studies
Novel: A Forum on Fiction

American & English Literature Collection
The American & English Literature Collection contains many works of poetry, drama, and prose based on books and other sources originally published in print. Includes the complete text of several major editions of Shakespeare's works.
HathiTrust (Public Domain & Copyright Works)
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions offering millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Books

Books

A Companion to Literary Evaluation by Richard Bradford (Editor); Madelena Gonzalez (Editor); Kevin De Ornellas (Editor)
ISBN: 9781119409892

Publication Date: 2024
Literature: a world history by David Damrosch (Editor); Gunilla Lindberg-Wada (Editor); Anders Pettersson (Editor); Theo D'haen (Editor); Bo Utas (Editor); Zhang Longxi (Editor); Djelal Kadir (Editor); As'ad Khairallah (Editor); Harish Trivedi (Editor); Eileen Julien (Editor)
ISBN: 9781119775737

Publication Date: 2022
The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature by Stephen Orgel
ISBN: 9780191967788

Publication Date: 2023
The Language of Fiction by Emar Maier (Editor); Andreas Stokke (Editor)
ISBN: 9780192585356

Publication Date: 2022

Book Reviews

Databases
eJournals

Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982
Collecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest, this database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction from 1903 to 1982.
New York Review of Books (NYRB)
A biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity.

CWRU eJournal Portal
The CWRU eJournal Portal is a research tool that allows you to conveniently access the vast array of journals, periodicals, and magazines the CWRU libraries have licensed.

Here are some eJournal titles for Book Reviews that you can find in Journal Search:

Booklist
Library Journal's Reviews
Publishers Weekly
Kirkus Reviews