General Reference
For related Internet sites, see Chadwyck-Healey's Literature
Online with MLA, the Voice of
the Shuttle or Jack Lynch's Literary
Resources on the Net.
Selected Library
of Congress Subject Headings (Search Orbis)
Selected Yale
Resources
This is a selection of ready-reference sources, including catalogs,
dictionaries, directories, and general guides, that are currently available
in electronic format or microform. Consult with a reference librarian for information
about additional printed reference materials.
- Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
contains records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions
of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations
published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. The subject areas covered
include: English language, English literature, bibliography, and traditional
culture of the English-speaking world.
- Arts
& Humanities Citation Index
- An index to the literature of the arts and humanities.
- Book
Review Digest Plus
- A bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of
reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction books for children
and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. Periodical coverage
includes approximately 109 leading magazines from the United States, Canada
and Great Britain.
- Books
In Print
- Index to books in print, forthcoming books, and recently out-of-print
books. The current printed volumes are available at the following libraries:
Art & Architecture, Divinity, Engineering and Applied Science, Forestry, Geology,
Kline, Law, Medical, Music, Social Sciences Library, and Sterling Memorial
Library.
- Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online includes the following:
- * Britannica Online and Book of the Year
articles -- More than 65,000 subjects are addressed in articles ranging from
concise explanations to comprehensive expositions and from historical treatments
of subjects to current-events coverage.
- * The Index to Britannica Online -- More
than 400,000 references have been compiled, edited, and hypertext-linked to
text articles for easy navigation. Additionally, there are more than 10,000
links to images and tables.
- * Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,
Tenth Edition -- The best-selling dictionary, with its comprehensive treatment
of words, has been included for your convenience.
- Gale
Literary Databases
- Includes Associations Unlimited; Biography and Genealogy Master
Index; Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select; Dictionary
of Literary Biography
- Humanities
Abstracts Full Text
- A bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language
periodicals in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography,
folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language
and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts,
philosophy, and religion and theology. Periodical coverage includes some of
the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized
magazines.
- Individual Literature Collections (LION)
- Lit
Finder
- Lit Finder is a international literature resource covering all
time periods, comprised of five databases that provide extensive full-text
content in English or English translation of the works included.
- Poems
Provides the full text poems; citations to poetry found in anthologies, single-author
volumes, and periodicals; poems published in the current year which forms an
annual anthology of the latest poetry published; poetry explication; and biographical
and critical essays on hundreds of poets.
Stories
Short stories with accompanying biographical information and critical discussion.
Essays
Full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th
century that focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies
and literary criticism.
Plays
Plays covering the range of dramatic expression, including one-act plays, puppet
plays, Harlinquinades, tragedies, gothic, children's, religious, romantic,
historical, and comedic plays. The collection includes many nationalities,
all in English or English translations.
Speeches
Over 1,800 of the best and the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years
and categorizing them into easily searchable genres.
- Literature
Online with MLA
- English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies,
bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. A search in this
database also automatically searches the MLA Bibliography, Annual Bibliography
of English Language and Literature (ABELL) (the Annual Bibliography of English
Language and Literature), and selected Web resources chosen by the editors.
Search results in Literature Online also link directly from this database to
EEBO (Early English Books Online).
- MLA
Bibliography
- Index to materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and
folklore, excluding book reviews.
- Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
- Orlando provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual
material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies.
Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from
any number of perspectives into centuries of women's writing.
- Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
- Short
Story Index
- Short Story Index is the electronic version of the standard
reference work Short
Story Index. It is an index to short stories written in or translated
into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. The
periodicals are those indexed in Readers'
Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities
Index.
- Oxford
English Dictionary, 2nd Edition
- Fully searchable version of the OED, 2nd edition (1989). Includes
definition and etymology searches, quotation searches, proximity searches,
as well as boolean searching.
Biographical Information
- American
National Biography
- Portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from
all eras and walks of life.
- American biographical archive. (Series I and Series
II) (Gerry Easter. London; New York: K.G. Saur, 1986. 850 microfiches)
- Fiche B1209 in Starr Main Reference Room (Annex)
This collection reproduces, in a single alphabetical sequence, the
complete biographical entries on 350,000 individuals, cumulated from
400 sources dating from the 17th to the early 20th century. It covers
Canada as well as the United States. The first several fiche contain
the biographical sources used to compile the collection.
- GUIDE: No index is necessary; all the entries for an
individual appear together, and eye-legible fiche headers provide
access.
- Bio-Base (Detroit: Gale, 1978- .)
- SML (Fiche S320) in Starr Main Reference Room (Annex)
- This microfiche set indexes a large number of biographical
reference sources. The guide to Bio-Base abbreviations, next to the
Fiche reader, is annotated with Yale Library locations and call numbers.
- Biography
Index
- SML, Reference Z5301 B56 (LC)
- Cumulative index to biographical information in books
and magazines. The print volumes cover 1946- present, and the online
version goes back to 1984.
- Biography
Resource Center
- Database of biographical information throughout history,
around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines
more than 245,000 biographies from sources such as Contemporary Authors,
Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film,
and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable
Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious
Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, Writers
Directory; with full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals including
American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, U.S. News &
World Report.
- British Biographical Archive (Series I and
Series II) (Laureen Baillie and Paul Sieveking. Munchen; New York:
K.G. Saur, 1984- . 1158 microfiches)
- SML, Reference Fiche B1275 in Starr Main Reference Room
(Annex)
Included in this British biographical archive are biographical entries
from 324 reference books originally published between 1601 and 1929. Particular
care was taken to include women in this collection, and there are many
cross references. Like the other Saur biographical archives, the first
fiches provide the title pages and prefaces from the source works. The
entries are arranged in one alphabetical sequence.
- GUIDE: There is a short introduction filed with the fiches
in the Starr Main Reading Room.
- Biography
and Genealogy Master Index
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive
index to nearly 12 million biographical sketch in more than 2700 volumes
and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both
contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
- Contemporary
Authors
- Information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000
authors along with critical reaction to their works.
- Dictionary
of Canadian Biography
- Biographical information on persons who died between the
years 1000 and 1920 or whose last known date of activity falls within
these years.
- Dictionary
of New Zealand Biography
- Biographies of New Zealanders no longer living which were
originally published in the printed Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
series between 1990 and 2000, and in the parallel Maori-language series,
Nga Tangata Taumata Rau.
- Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
- Orlando provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual
material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies.
Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from
any number of perspectives into centuries of women's writing.
- Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
- Biographical information on persons connected with the British
Isles from all periods of history. The qualifications for inclusion are that
subjects not be living, that they inhabited or were connected with the British
Isles, and that they were noteworthy. The noteworthy and influential element
in a subject's life may range from the great and good to the popular, philanthropic,
pioneering, scientific, social, curious, or criminal. Building on the work
originally incorporated in the Dictionary of National Biography all of whose
entries were revised or rewritten for this work -- the Oxford DNB contains
50,000 biographies and 10,000 images of men and women who shaped all aspects
of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.
Selected Internet Resources
- British
Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception
- British Fiction allows users to examine bibliographical records
of 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors, along with
a large number of contemporary materials (including anecdotal records, circulating-library
catalogues, newspaper advertisements, reviews, and subscription lists).
Historical Directories
- A digital library of local and trade directories for England
and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively
rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history.
- SUNCAT
- A Serials UNion CATalogue for the UK. SUNCAT will be both the
key tool for locating serials held in UK libraries and a central source of
high-quality records that can be used by university and college libraries to
upgrade their local catalogues.
- Welsh
Bible 1588
- A digital version of the first Welsh translation of the complete
Bible, including the Apocrypha. It was the work of William Morgan, 1545-1604,
a native of Penmachno, Conwy and a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge.
This folio volume was printed in black letter by the deputies of Christopher
Barker, the Queen's Printer. It was intended for church rather than home use.
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