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Recommended resources for finding secondary literature

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MLA International Bibliography
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Index to articles, books and dissertations on literature, language and film.
Project MUSE
Project Muse provides full text access to a wide range of journals. We subscribe to the Humanities Collection only.
Humanities Index - previously British Humanities Index
Covers 1962 to date. Abstracts from over 400 sources in the areas of literature, the arts, cinema, economics, history, current affairs, popular science, religion, music and architecture.
JSTOR
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Searchable digital archive collection of core scholarly journals, many starting with the first issue (some of which date from the 1800s). Stirling University has full-text access to the Collections: Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Arts & Sciences III, Biological Sciences Archive and Ireland Collection. We also have access to the 19th Century British Pamphlets collection.
PAO : Periodicals Archive Online
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Full text backfiles of international academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Files run from the late 18th century to the late 20th century.
Web of Science Core Collection
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Provides access to the Citation Indexes for: Science; Social Sciences; Arts & Humanities; Conference Proceedings and Books. Use for finding journal articles and conference papers. Databases can be searched simultaneously or select specific databases using the More Settings option.
Times Digital Archive
Searchable full text of The Times newspaper from 1785 to 2012. See also The Sunday Times archive
Times Literary Supplement Historic Archive
Search the Times Literary Supplement from 1902- 5 years ago.
British Newspapers 1600-1950
Digital archive of historic newspapers. British Newspapers 1600-1950 contains over 3 million pages of historic newspapers and newsbooks. This resource cross searches Nineteenth Century Newspapers, the Burney Collection and British Newspapers Parts 3, 4 and 5 (1732-1950).
British Periodicals Online
British Periodicals Online provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
Access to the full text of over 180 periodicals from the nineteenth century.
American Periodicals
Full text of selected American magazines and journals from 1740 to 1900.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Full text archive of US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theatre
Historical Texts (previously Historic Books)
Historic Books searches over 360,000 books. Use this to access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early English Books Online (EEBO). Historic Books also provides access to nineteenth century books from the British Library.

Recommended websites for English Literature

General

Historical Texts (previously Historic Books)
Historic Books searches over 360,000 books. Use this to access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early English Books Online (EEBO). Historic Books also provides access to nineteenth century books from the British Library.

UK Reading Experience Database
A database containing information about who read what and how in the UK between 150 and 1945. Use this to study the reading habits of Britons for five centuries. Reading Experience Databases for other countries are available from this site too.
International Gothic Association
Prestigious organisation with some of the biggest names in Gothic as members. Details about the biannual conference.
Gothic Imagination Blog
Website for the Gothic Imagination MLitt course at the University of Stirling. Has guest blogs written by Gothic scholars, news about Gothic events or information, and links.

Pre 1500

Anglo-Norman online hub
Access to the electronic Anglo-Norman Dictionary and articles relating to Anglo-Norman topics
Manuscripts Online
Catalogue of primary source materials from the period 1000 to 1500.

1500-1700

Discovering Literature: Shakespeare
Manuscripts, rare books, maps, playbills, photographs and illustrations relating to Shakspeare and his world. Produced by the British Library.

1700-1900

Burns Scotland
Digitised resources about Robert Burns
Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts
Digitised versions of the original Jane Austen manuscripts
Sheffield Hallam Corvey Homepage
Information about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors and works. Including full text articles, biographies and bibliographies.

Victorian Popular Culture
Online archive of books, periodicals, photographs, posters and ephemera on Victorian popular culture. We have access to the module on Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic only.

Victorian web
Wide-ranging site on literature, history and culture in the age of Queen Victoria. Includes political and social history, gender matters, philosophy and religion, as well as resources on Victorian authors.
Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence
Compiled by Professor Janet Millgate, the Union Catalogue provides records for the nearly 14,000 letters written by or to Scott that have proved traceable worldwide. The catalogue is hosted by the National Library of Scotland.
Walter Scott Digital Archive
Online resource created in the Special Collections Division at Edinburgh University Library. Designed around the Corson Collection of Walter Scott material held at Edinburgh University, it includes resources relating to Scott's life and works.
James Hogg Research
Documents relating to James Hogg, including images, bibliographies and audio files.
Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians
Insights into writing from the Romantic and Victorian periods from the British Library. Includes links to articles and videos.