Key Resources
Dictionaries and encyclopedias are a good starting point when researching a topic as they provide definitions, explanations or general overviews.
New eBooks
Journals
Print and electronic journals can be located via the Journal Search.
Relevant Article Databases
Our databases provide access to a range of high quality scholarly resources, such as journal articles and books chapters. A comprehensive listing of databases is provided on the main e-resources page.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a digital library provides digitized back issues of academic journals, ebooks and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowIndexes of journals in humanities, arts, social sciences, education, medicine, and health, and access to books via the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC).
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowBibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920's on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, history of printing and publishing, listings on rhetoric and composition, and history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new windowContains images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
- Early European Books This link opens in a new windowTraces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to 1701. Developed and produced with scholars, rare book librarians, bibliographers, and other experts. Offers full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of some of the world's most significant collections of early printed books in Europe. View Early European Books content plotted on the interactive historical map.
- Digitised newspapers and more (1803-1982) This link opens in a new windowAccess historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (part of the Trove search service). Note: Includes full-text access to The Age [Melbourne], The Australian, Australian Financial Review (AFR), The Daily Telegraph, Sun Herald [Sydney], Sunday Age, and The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH).
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new windowThis Gale platform combines and cross-searchable of GALE digital archives, which include monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps and more...
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender
- Archives Unbound
- British Library Newspapers
- Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- The Economist Historical Archive
- The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
- The Times Digital Archive
- The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
- Women's Studies Archive
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