Great starting place for research on any writer-including novelists, poets, and playwrights. Search across several collections for literary criticism and biographical information on writers. Includes the following series: Drama Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Shakespearean Criticism.
Previously known as Literature Criticism Online.
Cross-searchable collection of over two thousand reference titles from Gale. Previously known as Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Detailed etymologies of words comprising the English language. This online version of the venerable OED is a work in progress; hundreds of new entries are added yearly.
Cross-searchable collection of more than 100 encyclopedias and handbooks from SAGE.
An online, cross-searchable collection of reference books on a variety of subjects from more than 50 publishers.