English Literature databases

19th Century UK periodicals, series 1

  • A full text resource that spotlights the birth of modern magazine publishing in Britain.
  • Charts the rise of children’s entertainment and education, and increasing interest in popular sports and hobbies.
  • Also covers the political spectrum of women’s writing.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Arts & Humanities

  • Features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre, and Cultural Studies.
  • Full-text journals.
  • Included in the main library search.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

  • Off-air recording and media archive service.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

British Humanities Index

  • An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts.
  • This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

British Library Sounds

  • Contains over 12,000 recordings from the British Library's Sound Archive of the spoken word, music, interviews and sound effects.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

British Periodicals Collections I and II

  • Almost 500 British periodical runs from the 1680s to the 1930s, based on the UMI Microfilm Collection, 'Early British Periodicals'.
  • Included in the main library search.

Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics

  • Thousands of essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers.
  • Included in the main library search.

Cambridge Journals Online

  • Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
  • Included in the main library search.

Digital Theatre Plus

  • Streamed films of leading British theatre productions for educational use in schools, colleges, and universities.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Drama Online

  • Features the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare, and Faber lists to form a collection of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and a half thousand years.
  • Included in the main library search.

Early English Books Online

  • Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Early European Books Online

  • A wide-ranging overview of the intellectual life and historical upheavals of early modern Europe.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

  • A diverse collection of material for the researcher of the eighteenth century.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

  • Online access to The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) newspapers.
  • Easily searchable first coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
  • Included in the main library search.

Historical Texts

  • Contain a wide range of online texts from the fifteenth century to present day.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

JISC Journal Archives

  • JISC eCollections contains three platforms: Historic Books, Journal Archives and MediaHub containing thousands of journals, historical books, images, films, and sounds.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

JSTOR

  • UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
  • A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.

MLA International Bibliography

  • The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index.
  • Covers books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics.
  • Included in the main library search.

Nexis

  • Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
  • Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

One Literature (formerly Literature Online)

  • One Literature covers the period 1500 – 2008.
  • Contains 5 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works.
  • Includes rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings.
  • Included in the main library search.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  • An illustrated collection of over 56,000 biographies of people who shaped all aspects of Britain’s past.
  • From the 4th Century to the 21st Century.
  • Included in the main library search.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

  • The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Project Muse

  • Online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
  • Included in the main library search.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I

  • The most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the UK and Ireland.

SAGE Research Methods

  • A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
  • SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
  • Included in the main library search.

Scopus

  • The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
  • Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
  • Included in the main library search.

Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio

  • Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings dating from 1890 to the present day.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

The Times Digital Archive

  • Access to back issues of The Times (London) newspaper online.
  • One of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 18th century history and onward.
  • Included in the main library search.

Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

  • A complete online facsimile edition of every issue of one of the most comprehensive literary publications of the 20th century.
  • This digital archive an essential resource for anyone studying, or supporting the study of, modern literature, humanities and culture.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

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