English Language and Literature

Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. It dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.

Extensive print literature collection, hundreds of Harold Bloom’s essays examining the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, and thousands of critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom’s Literary Criticism imprint.

Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source.

19th and 20th Century literary criticism and analysis

This comprehensive, full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames—to give students, professors, and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.

WorldCat (the OCLC online union catalog) is the OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide, containing all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries and representing millions of bibliographic records representing 400 languages, with over 52,000,000 records added since 1971.

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An integrated research experience, Gale Literary Sources brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways.