There is a large variety of databases, e-texts, and indexes for literary research. Databases may contain citations only, citations and abstracts, and/or full-text. E-texts are always full-text.
The most important resources for beginning research are listed here:
Premier database for English and American Literature, but also focuses on Romance, Germanic, Eastern European, Oriental and others. Coverage is from 1963-present.
Gale Literature provides combined access to Literature Criticism Online (6 multidisciplinary series), Literature Resource Center, and Twayne's Author Series.
Back files of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, many with counterparts in Project Muse. Some titles date back over 50 years. Journals are exact images of the print version. The journals can be browsed either alphabetically or by discipline and searched individually; or partial or entire disciplines can be searched by doing the following: 1) select Advanced Search 2) select discipline(s)/journal(s)
JSTOR offers full-text keyword searching across its entire digital library collection, including images and content from articles, books, and pamphlets. Search results default to content licensed or purchased by the UAlbany Libraries, but you can change this setting for your session. JSTOR provides both Basic and some Advanced Search options, to help you find the content they need.
