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Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1920 to present) Indexes journal articles, essays, and books, book reviews, and critical editions of literary works published world-wide; covers all literatures in English as well as the English language, bibliography, textual studies, and the history of publishing.
MLA International Bibliography Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	New interface! (1926 to present) Indexes articles, books, and dissertations in the areas of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore.
Web of Knowledge Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Includes: Web of Science, an index of current and historical journal articles as well as a powerful tool for finding works that have cited a specific author or article ISI Proceedings (1990 to present), an index of over four million conference papers ... and more Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
WorldCat Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries.

Reference Resources
Credo Reference Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	An online collection of over 260 reference books covering all subject areas; contains dictionaries (including foreign language dictionaries), encyclopedias, atlases, and subject-specific works. Includes: English-Language Dictionaries Language Guides & Handbooks Literature Resources Useful for quick reference and basic information. For more detailed information, try the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Dictionary of the Scots Language Off-Campus access available; no password required.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots Language, The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST), which provides information about words from the twelfth century to the end of the seventeenth century, and The Scottish National Dictionary (SND), which covers words in use from the eighteenth century through the present day.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: English Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the Dictionary of Literary Symbols, the Reference Guide to World Literature, and other electronic, English literature-related titles in the Davidson College Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library collection. You can also search the entire Gale Virtual Reference Library collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the second edition of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, edited by Michael Groden et al. (2nd ed.; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005). Provides descriptions of theories, ideas, and critics from the time of Plato to the present and also covers developments in other disciplines that have shaped literary theory and criticism. International in scope with an emphasis on Western critical theory.
Literary Reference Center Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains full-text biographies, book reviews, critical essays, journal articles, and plot summaries as well as author interviews, selected reference works, and thousands of classic and contemporary poems, short stories, and other texts.
Literature Resource Center Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods. Includes Contemporary Authors, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, and substantial portions of Gale's other literature criticism series, including the Scribner Writers Series. Also includes the Gale's Literary Index and the Encyclopedia of Literature.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full text of the second edition of the OED and the 3 volume Additions Series as well as new and revised entries that will form part of the upcoming third edition (in progress). Search OED Online for word definitions, etymologies, and quotations. The Library has the print version of the OED in Reference at call number R 423 O98m2.
Reference Universe Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Try this first! Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books.
World Authors. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	Biographical and critical information on major world writers.

Other Resources
20th Century African-American Poetry Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1900 - 2000) A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the twentieth century. Includes more than 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets, including Rita Dove, Robert Hayden, Sherley Anne Williams, Bob Kaufman, and Langston Hughes.
20th Century American Poetry Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1900 - 2000) A collection of over 52,000 twentieth-century American poems. The works of 300 poets, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Cathy Song, are represented.
20th Century English Poetry Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1900 - 2000) A collection of over 44,000 poems published in England in the twentieth century; the works of 288 poets, including W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, and Benjamin Zephaniah, are represented. This collection includes works from the Faber Poetry Library.
African-American Poetry (1750-1900) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1750 - 1900) A collection of nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
American Memory Off-Campus access available; no password required.	A collection of over 9 million primary source documents and archival materials related to American history and culture. Includes a wide variety of materials, including manuscripts, government documents, pamphlets, books, and other publications as well as photographs, prints, maps, sheet music, video clips, and sound files. There are over 100 thematic collections in American Memory; you can search across all collections or browse or search individual collections. From the Library of Congress.
American Poetry (1600-1900) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1600 - 1900) A collection of more than 40,000 poems dating from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century; the works of over 200 American poets are represented.
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains transcripts of approximately 4,000 interviews with former slaves in 17 states; the interviews were conducted in the 1930s under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Searchable by surname, state, county, and subject. Also includes sound files.
ARTstor Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A collection of over 900,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and the social sciences; covers a wide range of cultures and time periods. Also includes tools to manipulate and analyze the images. Technical Requirements (updated): Windows XP with I.E. 7.0 or Firefox 2.0.0.11; Windows Vista with I.E. 7.0 or Firefox 2.0.0.13; Mac OSC 10.5.2. with Safari 3.1, Firefox 2.0.0.13, or Firefox 1.5.0.6; Mac OSX 10.4.11 and Safari 3.1 or Firefox 2.0.0.6; Flash 6 or higher; pop-up blocking disabled; cookies enabled. Note: If you do are using an older version of IE or Firefox, you can still connect to the old version of ARTstor, ARTstor Legacy; the link to ARTstor Legacy appears on the lower left-hand side of the main page.
Bibliographic Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1984 to present) A bibliography of bibliographies; indexes bibliographies published in books, pamphlets, and more than 2,800 periodicals. Includes citations to literature reviews and serial bibliographies.
BL Online: The Bibliographical Database of Linguistics Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1993 to present) Provides citations to scholarly articles and books in the field of linguistics; covers all branches of linguistics and includes citations to publications in related fields, such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and computer science. International in scope.
Cambridge Companions Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of over 220 titles in the Cambridge Companions Literature and Classics series and Philosophy, Religion, and Culture series.
Documenting the American South Off-Campus access available; no password required.	A collection of primary sources on Southern history, culture, and literature from the colonial period through the early twentieth century. Includes diaries, first-person narratives, literary works, photographs, and other materials. From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains digital images of over 37,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the British American colonies, and later the United States, from 1639 through 1800. Based on Charles Evans's American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: the Library also has Evans on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains digital images of over 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published from 1801 through 1819. Based on Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker's American Bibliography and supplemented by thousands of additional titles. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: the Library also has Shaw-Shoemaker on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1475-1700) Includes complete, digitized images of over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials published in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British North American from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
ebrary Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights. Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary. See also the system requirements for ebrary.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	New interface and more content! (1701-1800) Contains the full text of 180,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works.
English Poetry (600-1900) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(600 - 1900) A collection of over 165,000 English poems dating from the seventh century to the turn of the twentieth century. The works of more than 1,250 poets are represented. This collection includes the full text of nearly 4,500 printed sources.
Essay and General Literature Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1900 to present) Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences.
Faber Poetry Library Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath. Covers the seventy year history of this major publishing house.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1970 to present) An important source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border, and Hispanics in the United States. Indexes articles, book reviews, and original literary works published in over 400 journals; covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, banking and finance, business, drama, economics, ethnography, folklore, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and women's studies. HAPI cites articles published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Humanities Abstracts Full Text & Humanities Index Retrospective Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1982 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, essays, and doctoral dissertations on all aspects of theatre and the performing arts; international in scope. Includes the full text of 100 periodicals and 50 books.
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1842 to present for some titles) An interdisciplinary database containing citations to journal articles, essays, and books related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance; covers the time period 400 - 1700 CE.
JSTOR Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
Making of America Off-Campus access available; no password required.	A collection of primary source materials related to America history and culture from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes page images from books and journals published in the nineteenth century. The Cornell University Making of America site provides access to over 100,000 articles from journals such as The Atlantic Monthly (1857-1901) and Harper's (1850-1899) as well as access to over 250 books. The University of Michigan Making of America site provides access to over 50,000 journal articles and 8,500 books.
Milton: A Bibliography for the years 1624-1700 (revised) and for the years 1701-1799 Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1624-1799) Compiled by John Shawcross. A revision and continuation of his Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700 (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1984, 1990). Lists manuscripts and editions of Milton's works as well as critical studies, allusions to and quotations from Milton, and imitations of his work published between 1624 and 1799.
MLA Directory of Periodicals Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	New interface! Provides information about over 7,100 periodicals indexed by the MLA International Bibliography. The Directory includes contact information, advertising rates, and instructions for authors.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1700s to 1950) Contains the full text of letters, diaries, and excerpts of diaries written by American women from the colonial era to the mid twentieth century. Includes texts that were written contemporaneously; excludes memoirs. Provides biographical information for many of the authors.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope.
Play Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1949 to present) Indexes over 44,000 plays written in or translated into English and published individually or in collections. Covers plays from Ancient Greece and Rome through the present and also includes monologues, one-act plays, and radio and television plays.
Project Muse Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
Shakespeare in Quarto: The British Library's Digital Copies Online Off-Campus access available; no password required.	Provides digital images of 93 copies of the 21 Shakespeare plays that were printed in quarto before 1642; allows you to view individual copies of the Quartos or compare one copy with another. Also includes background information and a glossary. A complete list of the British Library's 93 Quartos is also available.
Short Story Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1915 to present) Indexes over 150,000 short stories in periodicals and edited collections; a helpful tool for locating particular short stories.
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Centenary Archive Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1902-1990) Contains the Times Literary Supplement Index as well as page images from the TLS (1920-1990). Includes more than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles. In addition, the Archive provides information about anonymous contributors to the TLS, information that does not appear in the print TLS Index.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	Indexes the prose contents of 43 periodicals for the dates indicated (including the years 1802-1823 for The Edinburgh Review). Identifies the writers of anonymous and pseudonymous works from this time period.
Women Writers Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1400-1850) Contains the full text of over 200 works written by women in the period 1400-1850.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1971 to present) Searchable database containing over 75,000 annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other materials related to Shakespeare. Also includes book reviews as well as reviews of theatrical productions, films, and audio recordings.