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Databases

19th Century British Pamphlets
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Academic Search Complete
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Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
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Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation
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British Periodicals
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Caxton's Chaucer (Treasures in Full at the BL)
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Citation Indexes on Web of Knowledge
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Dictionary of National Biography
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now Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of Old English A-G
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus
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Dissertation Abstracts online by personal subscription (Dissertation Express)
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ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
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EEBO: Early English Books Online
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English Poetry Full-Text Database
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ESTC: the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC, WING, Pollard & Redgrave etc.)
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FRANCIS
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Gutenberg (Project)
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Gutenberg Bible (Treasures in Full at the BL)
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Heritage of the Printed Book database (HPB)
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Index to Theses of the British Isles
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Index Translationum
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IngentaConnect
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International Index of Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text
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International Medieval Bibliography Online
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JISC MediaHub (formerly Film & Sound Online)
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Available Offsite (registered SAS students and staff only)
JSTOR: Scholarly Journals online (full text)
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Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
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LION: Literature Online
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MLA International Bibliography and Periodicals Directory
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MyiLibrary
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NewsFilmOnline
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Oxford English Dictionary Online
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Oxford Text Archive
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Periodicals Archive Online
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(database of articles, searchable across full text)
Periodicals Index Online
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(database of citations with links to some full text where available)
Renaissance Cultural Crossroads
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Shakespeare Collection
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Shakespeare in Quarto (Treasures in Full at the BL)
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Thesaurus of Old English
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Victorian Database Online
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Victorian Popular Culture
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Web of Knowledge
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Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
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World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
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Wycliffite Manuscript: The New Testament
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