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MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB)
MLAIB is the go-to abstracting and indexing database for literature, linguistics, and folklore. Also good for rhetoric, composition, and film. Students looking for peer-reviewed journal articles (i.e., scholarly criticism) about a literary figure or primary literary work should begin here. Also indexes books, book chapters, dissertations, translations, and even websites. Easily link from citations in MLAIB to the full-text article in JSTOR, Project MUSE, etc. The earliest citations date from the late nineteenth century.
Literature Online (ProQuest)
Excellent source for literary criticism. One of LION's major draws is that it provides online access to over 300 volumes in the Cambridge Companions series.
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(Dates vary.) Includes full text and abstracts to English and American poetry, drama, and prose from 600 to the present. Also includes literary criticism, author biographies, guides to major literary works, thousands of primary texts of poetry, prose, and drama, and Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Find literary criticism plus author biographies and bibliographies. LRC includes entries from Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
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Literature Resource Center is an online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world.

JSTOR
The premier journal archive, JSTOR provides full-text access to 428 high-quality, peer-reviewed language and literature journal titles, the earliest of which date to the late nineteenth century.
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(Earliest Full Text from the Late 1800s.) A full text, full image journal archive. Coverage of journals generally begins with their first volume and is updated to within three-to-five years of the current issue. Allows keyword searching of the full text of all articles, as well as browsing of particular journal issues. Subject strengths are African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics/finance, general science, history, literature, math/statistics, philosophy, political science, population/demography, and sociology.
Project MUSE
Another important journal archive, Project Muse provides full-text access to 187 journals in the Literature category dating from approximately the mid-1990s to date.
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(Dates vary from 1995-present) Access to the full text of more than 100 journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from Johns Hopkins University Press and other publishers. Complements rather than competes with JSTOR in that combined the two databases provide maximum chronological coverage.

Humanities Full Text
Employ Humanities Full Text to search or browse over 50 English language and literary journals, most of which provide coverage dating from the mid-1980s.
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(Indexing & Abstracting, 1982-; earliest Full Text from 1995.) Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full text for periodical articles and reviews from English language periodicals. Subjects include archaeology, classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, language, literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
Literary Reference Center
This database includes a mix of secondary literary criticism with traditional reference material including plot summaries and biographies. Also incorporates reviews, primary source author interviews, poems, and short stories forward.
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(Date: various) specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community college and undergraduates. Includes plot summaries, literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, short stories, author interviews, classic texts.