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Humanities International Complete

Articles on language and literature as well as other arts and humanities fields

JSTOR

Covers articles in 108 language and literature journals from their origin to all but the most recent few years.

Literature Criticism Online

Samples of literary criticism on authors and major works through the years.

Literature Resource Center

Biographies, bibliographies and analyses of authors and their works. Indexes articles in 250+ journals and includes the MLA International Bibliography. (See next entry)

MLA International Bibliography

The major tool for research on language and literature. Indexes articles on English and American literature, other modern languages and literatures, and folklore from over 3,000 journals. Difficulties include no true subject indexing for pre-1980 items, and, prior to 1956, generally restricted to scholarship by Americans.

Project Muse

A collection of nearly 150,000 articles from more than 400 academic journals on humanities and social sciences topics.

World Shakespeare Bibliography

The indispensable bibliography for Shakespeare studies and scholarship on Renaissance literature in general.