English Literature Research Guide

the top index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Because it is primarily an index, there are more citations than full text articles.

contains a vast archive of full text articles on literature, classics, culture and more, however it only has limited access to the most current content.

has introductory articles on a variety of authors and works. It is a great place to start your research.

Full-text journals in the arts, humanities, history and social sciences

Biography Reference Bank Illustrated provides in-depth, full-text profiles, with more than 32,000 photographs

Provides abstracts and citations for articles published in over 2,000 periodicals which address the history of the United States and Canada. The database also indexes books, book reviews, and Ph.D. dissertations.

Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals.

This database includes more than 921,000 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to the present.

This database offers an online archive of the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, which for many decades has been a major index to articles published in news magazines such as Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report as well as popular magazines like Good Housekeeping and Reader's Digest.

This database offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals, and encompasses an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks, and many unique sources that were never previously available, covering all levels of education--from early childhood to higher education--as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

Over 60,000 biographical articles spanning the history of the British Isles. The primary and authoritative reference work of its kind. Supports 2-3 simultaneous users.

Brings together several Gale literary databases into one search platform including Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism Online, and Something About the Author.

Children's Literature Review, 2004-current
Contemporary Authors, 2003-current
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, 2003-current
Something about the Author, 2004-current.
International Directory of Company Histories, 2004-current.
Business Plans Handbook, 2004-2010

Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Approximately 200+ monographs are captured per year, with approximately 3,000-4,000 analytics (chapters/stories).

Short Story Index Retrospective is a bibliographic index of short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals.

The American Periodicals Series brings the early days of U.S. history alive through more than 7,000,000 digitized page images from over 1,000 periodicals spanning 200 years. The wide variety of content ranges from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, first published in 1741, to literary and professional journals, specialized titles, and such well-known magazines as Vanity Fair, Ladies' Home Journal, Scientific American, and The Dial.

This resource offers facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. The library's account includes all four collections released by ProQuest as of 2019.

Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals.

500 U.S. newspapers published during the 1800s, fully scanned and searchable.

Full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society."

UNO students, faculty, and staff are eligible for a personal account for the online New York Times. Click here to login through your library account to validate your eligibility, and then set up a New York Times account using your unomaha.edu email address as your username.

A UNO account includes access to the TimesMachine, the scanned archive extending back to 1851. Click into the menu at the upper left of the NYT homepage and then click "More" and then "TimesMachine."

This site allows you to search and view American Historic newspaper pages from 1890-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

contains the Times of London, fully scanned and searchable. Widely regarded as the world's "newspaper of record," The Times has offered readers in-depth, award-winning and objective coverage of global events since 1785, and is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication.

This easy-to-navigate, fully-searchable resource is a witness to the cultural revolutions of the last 100 years and offers unparalleled opportunities for tracking the views of influential opinion-makers, the response of their peers, the controversies of the day and how they developed.

Researchers can access primary source material including letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more. The materials are taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.

HarpWeek enables you to directly experience the richness and historical significance of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper.