Creative Writing Databases

Most Useful Databases

Literature Online (LION)

Contains the full-text of over 350,000 English, American, and Canadian literary works, including poetry, drama, and prose. Full-text access to over 16... (more info)

MLA International Bibliography

Indexes 3,000+ international journals and series, monographs, working (unpublished) papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies and more. ... (more info)

Gale Literary Databases

Gale Literary Databases include Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical ... (more info)

Humanities Full Text

Includes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities with the full text of articles from over 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, and high-quality indexing for almost 700 journals... (more info)

OED Online

The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show... (more info)

Also Useful Databases

Academic Search Complete

Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,900 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,800 peer-reviewed journals... (more info)

JSTOR

Contains the full text of over 169 journals available from JSTOR.... (more info)

Project Muse

Full text of articles published in over 300 journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences mathematics, and many others.... (more info)