Research Guides: 16th- & 17th-Century English Literatures (Professor Greenberg): Databases

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This guide covers three major areas of 16th and 17th century English Literatures: Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare, & Milton. This "Database" tab and the "Glossaries, Dictionaries, & Encyclopedia" tab contain resources that would be appropriate for all three areas. Area specific resources each have their own tab. Finally, the "Research Help & Tutorials" tab covers tips and tricks for research as well as frequently asked questions.

MLA International Bibliography
A resource of scholarly journals, books, and dissertations with main topics including literature, linguistics, language studies, rhetoric, composition, drama, theory, criticism, teaching, and publishing. Coverage: 1920s-present.
JSTOR
A comprehensive archive of multidisciplinary scholarly journals and books. Coverage: 1800s to 3-5 years ago.
Project MUSE
Provides digital humanities and social sciences books and scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Coverage 1900s-present.
Humanities International Complete
Provides indexing to journals, books, magazines,and other published humanities sources from around the world.
Early English Books Online
Facsimiles of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials published in the English language. Search by title, author, or subject, or use advanced search to look for specific types of works (prose, recipes, songs, etc.), including illustration types (portraits, maps, etc.). Coverage dates: 1473-1700.
Early English Books Online: Text Creation Partnership
Transcriptions of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials published in the English language. Search by title, author, or subject, or use advanced search to look for specific types of works (prose, recipes, songs, etc.), including illustration types (portraits, maps, etc.). Coverage dates: 1473-1700.
Dissertations & Theses Global Full Text (ProQuest)
More than 2.1 million full-text dissertations and theses, dating to 1861. It also contains indexing of 3.8 million graduate works. Primarily US, UK and Ireland but increasingly from other countries. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress.
Academic Search Complete
This multidisciplinary resource contains access to scholarly journals, book reviews, magazine articles, newspaper articles, books, videos, and trade publications in English and a wide variety of other languages. This resource is a great place to start research. Coverage: 1887-present
ATLA Religion
Includes scholarly journals, books, essays, reviews, and multimedia in the field of religion. Coverage: 1754-present.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
World history including military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Indexing of scholarly journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Coverage: 1450-present.