Selected Reference Books: 

• American Women Writers
  Call Number: PS 147 A4
• American Writers
  Call Number: PS 129 A55
• British Writers
  Call Number: PR 85 B688
• Contemporary Authors
  Call Number: Z 1224 C65
• Contemporary Literary Criticism
  Call Number: PN 771 L59
• Critical Survey of Drama
  Call Number: PR 623 L75 1994
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters
  Call Number: PN 44 M31 1998
• Dictionary of Irish Literature
  Call Number: PR 8706 D5 1996
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
  Call Number: varied by genre
• Encyclopedia of the Novel
  Call Number: PN 41 E487 1998
• Granger's Index to Poetry
  Call Number: PN 1022 G7 1990
• Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare
  Call Number: PR 2892 S62
• Magil's Literary Annual
  Call Number: PN 44 M35 1966-current
• McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
  Call Number: PN 1625 M3 1984
• Science Fiction Writers
  Call Number: PS 374 S35 S36 1999

Databases:

InfoTrac Search Bank Expanded Academic ASAP

• Access: password restricted (see librarian)
• Coverage: 1980-present
• Content: full-text, abstracts, and citation indexing for scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. Broad subject coverage in all academic areas.

MLA CD-ROM

• Access: CD-ROM, library only
• Coverage: 1963-present
• Content: citations to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

Project Muse  

• Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
• Coverage: varies
• Content: full text Literature titles include: American Literary History, American Literary Scholarship, American Literature, Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Biography, boundary 2, Callaloo, Chaucer Review, Comparative Literature Studies, Configurations, Criticism, Diacritics, Early American Literature, ELH, Emily Dickinson Journal, French Forum, Henry James Review, Journal of Modern Literature, Joyce Studies Annual, Legacy, Lion and the Unicorn, Literature and Medicine,  Manoa, Milton Quarterly (archive-only), MLN, MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly, MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Narrative, New Hibernia Review, New Literary History, Nineteenth Century French Studies, Philosophy and Literature, Poetics Today, Research in African Literatures, Resources for American Literary Study (archive-only), SAQ - The South Atlantic Quarterly, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Shakespeare Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, Substance, Symploke, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, and Yale Journal of Criticism.

JSTOR

• Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
• Coverage: begins at title inception and does not include recent 5+ years.
• Content: full text Literature titles include: African American Review 1992-1998, Black American Literature Forum 1976-1991, Negro American Literature Forum 1967-1976, American Literature 1929-1999, Callaloo 1976-1994, ELH 1934-1994, MLN 1962-1994, Modern Language Notes 1886-1961, Nineteenth-Century Literature 1986-1997, Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1949-1986, Trollopian 1945-1949, Representations 1983-1997, Shakespeare Quarterly 1950-1996, Speculum 1926-1996, Transition 1961-1999, and Yale French Studies 1948-1999.

Wilson Book Review Digest

• Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
• Coverage: 1983-present
• Content: Citations and excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided.

Wilson OmniFile

• Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
• Coverage: 1982-present
• Content: full-text, abstracts, and citation indexing for scholarly journals and magazines. Broad subject coverage in all academic areas.

Wilson Essay and General Literature Index

• Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
• Coverage: 1985-2000
• Content: indexing of essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. 

Internet Resources: 

• The American Verse Project (pre-1920 American poetry)   
• British Poetry 1780-1910 (a hypertext archive of scholarly editions)
• Celebration of Women Writers  (arranged by author name, century, country, and ethnicity)
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (arranged in three categories: comedy, history, tragedy)
• Library of Southern Literature  (part of Documenting the American South, the collection consists mainly of nineteenth and early twentieth century texts. Browse by subject, author, and title)
• Literary Resources on the Net  (megasite arranged by period and and special topics)
• Online Literary Criticism Collection (from the Internet Public Library, browse by author, title, period, or country) 
• Letters- Cyber Lyceum (Eckerd Intranet)