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Comprehensive database for literature and languages, plus folklore, drama and rhetoric. Indexes over 3,000 journals as well as dissertations and selected books and book chapters.

Full-text articles from over 130 language and literature journals, from the first issue up to 3-5 years ago.

Around 13,000 biographical and critical essays, mainly of American and British authors. Essays range from 10-20 pages long and include lengthy suggested readings.

Full-text, critical essays, or excerpts of essays, on widely studied contemporary authors (now living or who died after 2000).

Provides biographical information and suggested readings on more than 130,000 U.S. and international authors.

This interface searches Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography simultaneously.

Full-text biographical or autobiographical information for around 12,000 authors and illustrators of children's and young adult books.

Index to over 130 multivolume literature reference works from Gale, St. James, Scribner's, and Twayne. Use this to determine which sets or series (such as American Writers or Something About the Author) have entries on a particular author or work.

Online version of the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Offers definitions over time and contextual examples of usage, including the first written usage.

Index of millions of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

Index of conference proceedings worldwide.