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| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (PQ) | Connect | Details |
| Cambridge University Press eBooks (via Cambridge Core) | Connect | Details |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism (GALE) | Connect | Details |
| Literature Criticism Online (Gale) | Connect | Details |
| Literature Online (LION) (Proquest) | Connect | Details |
| MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) | Connect | Details |
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| Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) | Connect | Details |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Clarivate) | Connect | Details |
| Book Review Digest Plus (EBSCO H.W. Wilson) | Connect | Details |
| Book Review Digest Retrospective 1903-1982 (EBSCO H.W. Wilson) | Connect | Details |
| British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500-1950 (Alexander Street Press) | Connect | Details |
| British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660-1900 (Gale) | Connect | Details |
| British Periodicals (ProQuest) | Connect | Details |
| Cairn (Cairn.Info) | Connect | Details |
| Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online | Connect | Details |
| Cambridge Histories Online (via Cambridge Core) | Connect | Details |
| Canadian Book Review Annual (CBRA) | Connect | Details |
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| Choice Reviews Online | Connect | Details |
| Columbia Granger's World of Poetry | Connect | Details |
| Contemporary Authors (GALE) | Connect | Details |
| De Gruyter Online | Connect | Details |
| Defining Gender, 1450-1910 | Connect | Details |
| Dictionary of Irish Biography | Connect | Details |
| Dictionary of Old English | Connect | Details |
| Dictionary of the Irish Language | Connect | Details |
| e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection | Connect | Details |
| Early American Imprints - Evans 1639-1800 (Readex - NewsBank) | Connect | Details |
| Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819 (Readex - NewsBank) | Connect | Details |
| Early English Books Online (EEBO)(Proquest) | Connect | Details |
| Early European Books I and II (ProQuest) | Connect | Details |
| Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare | Connect | Details |
| eDuke eBooks Scholarly Collection | Connect | Details |
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online ECCO (Gale) | Connect | Details |
| Eighteenth Century Journals Portal (Adam Matthew Digital) | Connect | Details |
| Electronic Enlightenment | Connect | Details |
| Empire Online | Connect | Details |
| English Short Title Catalogue ESTC | Connect | Details |
| Essay & General Lit (EBSCO H.W. Wilson) | Connect | Details |
| Frantext | Connect | Details |
| Gale Literary Databases (Gale) | Connect | Details |
| Gale's Literary Index | Connect | Details |
| Gutenberg-e | Connect | Details |
| Humanities, Arts & Medicine Database | Connect | Details |
| Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) | Connect | Details |
| Internet Shakespeare Editions | Connect | Details |
| Iter: eBooks | Connect | Details |
| Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism | Connect | Details |
| JSTOR | Connect | Details |
| Literary Manuscripts (17th and 18th Century poetry) | Connect | Details |
| Literary Print Culture (Adam Matthew Digital) | Connect | Details |
| Literature Resource Center LRC (Gale) | Connect | Details |
| London Low Life (Adam Matthew Digital) | Connect | Details |
| Middle English Dictionary (UMichigan) | Connect | Details |
| MLA Directory of Periodicals (EBSCO) | Connect | Details |
| New York Review of Books Online | Connect | Details |
| NINES Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online | Connect | Details |
| Nineteenth Century Collections Online - NCCO (Gale) | Connect | Details |
| Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC) | Connect | Details |
| North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press) | Connect | Details |
| Orlando Women's Writing in the British Isles | Connect | Details |
| Oxford English Dictionary (OED) | Connect | Details |
| Oxford Handbooks Online (Oxford) | Connect | Details |
| Oxford Reference | Connect | Details |
| Past Masters (Intelex) | Connect | Details |
| Perdita Manuscripts (Adam Matthew Digital) | Connect | Details |
| Periodicals Archive Online 1 - 10 (ProQuest) | Connect | Details |
| Periodicals Index Online (PQ) | Connect | Details |
| Play Index (EBSCO H.W. Wilson) | Connect | Details |
| Princeton University Press Ebook Collection (De Gruyter) | Connect | Details |
| Project Muse | Connect | Details |
| Punch Historical Archive; 1841-1992 (Gale) | Connect | Details |
| Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (EBSCO H.W. Wilson) | Connect | Details |
| Readers’ Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 (EBSCO H.W. Wilson) | Connect | Details |
| Richard Brome Online | Connect | Details |
| Romanticism: Life, Literature & Landscape | Connect | Details |
| Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (T&F) | Connect | Details |
| Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street Press) | Connect | Details |
| Shakespeare Survey | Connect | Details |
| Stanford University Press Ebooks (De Gruyter) | Connect | Details |
| T.S. Eliot - The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition | Connect | Details |
| Taylor & Francis eBooks | Connect | Details |
| Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive (Gale) | Connect | Details |
| TLS Centenary Archive (see TLS Historical Archive) | Connect | Details |
| Very Short Introductions (Oxford) | Connect | Details |
| Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 | Connect | Details |
| Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals | Connect | Details |
| Women Writers Online (1400-1850) | Connect | Details |
| World Shakespeare Bibliography | Connect | Details |
| WorldCat (OCLC) | Connect | Details |
| WorldCat.org | Connect | Details |