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Provides full text access to biographical and critical information on more than 100,000 modern novelists, poets, journalists, and scriptwriters from around the world. Database can be searched by author, title, subject, or full text.
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JSTOR
A full text, full image archive of over 120 journals. Coverage of journals generally begins with their first volume and is updated to within three years of the current issue. Allows keyword searching of the full text of all articles, as well as browsing of particular journal issues. Subject strengths are African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics/finance, general science, history, literature, math/statistics, philosophy, political science, population/demography, and sociology.
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Literature Online
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Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA)
Indexes journal articles, book chapters, proceedings, working papers and bibliographies for literature, linguistics and folkore.
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Reference Tools
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Documents the history of words in the English language including variant spellings, obsolete forms, combinations, derivatives, and definitions. More limited coverage of scientific and technical vocabulary, slang, jargon, and dialect. Meanings are arranged historically. Includes quotations from novelists, playwrights, journalists, scholars, scientists, legislators, politicians, diarists, saints, philosophers. Includes the full text of the 1989 Second Edition (20 printed volumes) and the 1993-1997 addition series (3 printed volumes). Advance release material for the projected 2010 New (Third) Edition is incorporated quarterly.
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus
Table of values of heats of formation, transition, fusion, vaporization and reaction.
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Middle English Compendium
The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. A catalogue of the texts included is available in Angus Cameron's ``A List of Old English Texts'' in A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed. R. Frank and A. Cameron (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973), pp. 25-306. There are 3037 texts in the corpus. The individual scholar must take responsibility for clearing copyright with the editors and publishers of the editions used in his/her own citations of the material.
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