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Indexes & Databases by Subject: Literature

A = All – 100% full-text or linked full text articles available
M = Most – no less than 50 % full-text or linked full text articles available
S = Some – less than 50% full-text or linked full text articles available
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Full Text	Title	Description
M	Academic Search Complete	Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
	American Film Scripts Online	This edition of American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) contains 776 scripts by 856 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes over 430 original images of previously unpublished screenplays. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,000 scripts and over 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the movies.
	ESTC - English Short Title Catalogue	460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 mainly in Britain and North America. This material is from the collections of the British library and over 2,000 other libraries.
S	Film & Television Literature Index with Full-text	Definitive index to film and television topics indexes several hundred journals, with some full-text available. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
A	Fuente Academica	Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. This database provides full text (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide, including Revista de Arquitectura, Estudios Sobre Educacion, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Comunicacion y Sociedad, Revista de Ciencia Politica, Revista Historia, and more.
A	Gale Group Databases	This gateway offer access to several databases offering selected full-text articles from both popular magazines and scholarly journals. The "Resource Centers" offer full-text entries selected refrence sources in the areas of business, health, literature and biography.
A	JSTOR	JSTOR is an electronic archive of selected journals in various disciplines. It attempts to maintain complete journal holdings from the first volume, but current volumes (from the past three to six years) are not included.
A	Literary Reference Center	Database provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. Available via EBSCO.
A	Literature Resource Center	Provides selected full-text of biographical information on authors and critical analysis of literary texts
A	Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature	This onlin version of Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature provides brief entries on authors, literary movements, and other terms and concepts
	MLA Directory of Periodicals	The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
S	MLA International Bibliography	MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1926 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
A	Project Muse	This collection of electronic journals covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and more. Coverage for individual titles varies but is generally from the late 1990's to the present.
	WorldCat	This combined catalog of library holdings includes books, web resources, and other material. A search for a title will show which participating libraries own it.
A	Google Scholar	Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.