Brill’s Medieval Reference Library

Complete and unabridged online edition of print Brill encyclopedias: Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450.

Early American Imprints. Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1801-1819

“From the acclaimed holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia comes a broad range of recently uncovered books, pamphlets and broadsides, most of which were not included in Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemakers American Bibliography. Printed during the Early Republic, spanning the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson and passage of the Indian Civilization Act, these rare and unique items represent a remarkable enrichment of the Readex digital edition of Early American Imprints.”–Publisher’s web site.

Periodicals Index Online

This resource has moved from the Chadwyck Healey search interface to the ProQuest search interface.

Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies Online

Brill’s companions in classical studies is a leading series of handbooks providing graduate-level synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship on key authors and subjects from Antiquity. Each volume contains an up-to-date general bibliography. Volumes published have covered authors such as Ovid, Herodotus, Cicero, Thucydides and Propertius, and thematic volumes on Flavian Rome, Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity, Greek and Latin Pastoral and Hellenistic Epigram. The database provides online access to the companions.

Humanities Source

Provides full text—plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing—for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and more.

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Trial expires: Friday, March 15, 2013

The Browning Letters

This is an unparalleled collection of correspondence written and received by the Victorian poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Featuring materials from the collection of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University and the holdings of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the letters in this collection are browsable and searchable by date, author, and first line of text. The project is funded in part by the Bob and Anna Wright Endowed Fund.

Victorian Popular Culture — Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema

Adding a 4th section to Victorian Popular Culture, this resource provides coverage of Victorian and Edwardian visual entertainments, early optics, magic lantern shows, panoramas, dioramas, early photography, and early motion pictures and includes objects, ephemera, books and journals.

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Trial expires: Thursday, December 27, 2012

Books and Authors

This database lists over 100,000 recommended fiction and non-fiction book titles, many with plot summaries and awards information. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. Includes author biographies. Use “My Reading Room” to create, maintain and share lists of your favorite authors or titles or your own written book reviews.

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Trial expires: Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Eighteenth Century Journals Portal

This resource was on trail in spring 2011 and is on trial again.

Portal to newspapers and periodicals c1685-1815 offers integrated access to the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Eighteenth Century Journals I), the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center University of Texas (Eighteenth Century Journals II) and the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and the Cambridge University Library (Eighteenth Century Journals III) and Chetham’s Library, Manchester and Brotherton Library, University of Leeds (Eighteenth Century Journals IV), and more. Note: The “download entire document in PDF” option is not available during trials. However, users can still view and print images from the collections.

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Trial expires: Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Short Story Index

This indexes all the important collections and anthologies of short stories that are published each year. All literary genres are covered.