Provides access to Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and selected articles in Contemporary Literary Criticism, as well as other resources.
Provides citations of journal articles and other resources in the discipline of English and other modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Literature Criticism Online represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Contains literature, history and culture with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available.
For historical context of a person, event, movement, etc...
Scholar is the single most expansive search of academic literature. Form your search with phrases or keywords from your target language to get results in that language.
Provides citations of journal articles, books, and dissertations about the history of all countries other than the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. (For the history of the U.S. and Canada, use America: History and Life).
ATLA offers an excellent scripture index to ensure that you find all the relevant articles on a passage. It is otherwise a good source to find articles and book essays in biblical studies, church history, theology, missions, linguistics and archaeology. It is also a good place to find book reviews on literature in these areas.
