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Recommended databases
MLA Bibliography
MLA is the standard guide to contemporary literary criticism of world authors in a range of languages, both European and non-European, and also includes references for folklore and linguistics.
Individual Literature Collections Help
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource 
Selected Full Text
Authoritative information on Australian literature.
Chaucer Bibliography Online
This bibliography includes Chaucer studies from 1975 until the present.
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.
Gale Databases Full Text
Provides multidisciplinary subject coverage, including the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.
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Useful databases
The Source Selected Full Text
Covers children's literature awards and prizes worldwide. Includes a subject, author, genre and title guide to books, short stories and poetry for children.
APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995. 
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Duke Scholarly Collection Full Text
Covers humanities and the social sciences.
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Newsbank Full Text 
Newsbank has the full-text content of more than 100 local, regional, and national newspapers from Australia and overseas.
Reference
American History Through Literature 1820-1920
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
There are a number of English language dictionaries, companions, encyclopedias and thesaurii. Literature titles include Oxford dictionaries and Companions for American, Australian, Canadian, Classical, English, Irish and New Zealand literature. There are also items on science fiction, mythology, poetry, children's literature and Shakespeare.
Subject Guides
Children's Literature
ENCO 100 Communication Skills: Composition. 'University Education: Right or Privilege' (PowerPoint)
ENCO 310 Children's Literature: Picture Books and Fantasy. 'Charlotte's Web' by E B White
ENCO 329 Publishing and Editing
ENGL 101 An Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 102 Literature, Film and Society
ENGL 351 Victorian Literature and Culture
Websites & internet resources
Australian Literature
ASAL The Association for the Study of Australian Literature provides a directory of postgraduate research on the topic of Australian literature, as well as publications and a newsletter.
Australian Literature on the Internet Maintained by the National Library of Australia
Australian Literature Collection Sydney University Library's SETIS (Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service).
CALLS The Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies here at UNE.
Ozlit Australian Literary Resources has a fully searchable database with over 11000 entries.
Journals
Australian Journals Online Provided by the National Library, this database searches hundreds of e-journals online.
Children's Literature
Children's and YA Literature on the Web Links to useful resources about awards, book reviews, and collections of literature for children and young adults.
Children's Literature Web Guide Links to internet resources related to books for children and young adults provided by the University of Calgary.
English Resources
The Carlyle Letters Online: A Victorian Cultural Resource Thousands of letters written by Scottish author and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801 - 1866) provided by Duke University Press.
Eighteenth Century Resources This portal page has sites arranged in categories such as eighteenth century authors, theatre and drama, gothic resources, romanticism, women writers, French, German and Italian literature, and includes scholarly works written about the eighteenth century.
English Literature Resources Compiled by the London School of Journalism, this resources site offers free electronic texts, general and author-specific web sites on English literature, and includes a section titled "Help for Students".
Labyrinth Library Old English and Anglo-Saxon literature resources and e-texts from Georgetown University.
Victorian Database Online Search over 100,000 records listing books, articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1945 to 1999 on every field of nineteenth-century British studies. This is a bibliographic database only — it does not provide full text documents.
Journals
Early Modern Literary Studies This full text e-journal with holdings dating back to 1995 concentrates on sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature.
JAC A peer reviewed journal publishing theoretical articles on a variety of topics related to rhetoric, writing, multiple literacies, and the politics of education. Articles date from 1980 to the present.