Literature databases

Core databases for literature

JSTOR: Articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. (more info...)
Literature Criticism Online: Full-text criticism from Gale Literary Criticism series titles. (more info...)
Literature Resource Center: Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline (more info...)
MLA Bibliography: Essential index to publications on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore (more info...)
Project Muse: Articles from journals covering literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, gender studies and more. (more info...)

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost): Full-text coverage of periodical articles on timely topics. (more info...)
Arts & Humanities Search: Indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from more than 5,800 social science and science journals. (more info...)
Columbia Grangers World of Poetry: Index to poetry and information about poets. (more info...)
Play Index: Index to more than 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present. (more info...)

netLibrary: Collection of e-books in all subject areas including classic literary works in the public domain.(more info...)
Oxford English Dictionary (OED): The premier historical dictionary of the English language. (more info...)
Reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.)