Databases
Search or browse for databases across all subject areas. Databases are collections of scholarly resources, such as articles, journals, videos, images, primary source materials, and more. We also recommend using Omni, our academic search tool, to quickly find individual titles across the library's collection.
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Literature Online | Works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, with some full-text literature journals, with key criticism and reference resources. The following literature collections are cross-searchable via the... | Connect |
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America's Historical Imprints | Contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. Digitized from one of the most important collections ever produced on microform, Early American Imprints, Series I is... | Connect |
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American Film Scripts Online | Contains over 1,000 scripts by over 1,000 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes scanned images for more than... | Connect |
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Asian American Drama | Contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Some 50% of these plays have never been published before. The database... | Connect |
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Black Drama - 1850 to Present | Contains approximately 1200 plays by 200 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills,... | Connect |
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Black Studies Center | Combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.... | Connect |
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Black Thought and Culture | Contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal... | Connect |
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Black Women Writers | Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries, the database gives a view of black women's struggles through time. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate... | Connect |
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries | The immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever... | Connect |
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British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1120-1900 | Consists of two collections: British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900, which provides an intimate look into the lives and works of Britain’s major writers across two hundred years; the Medieval and... | Connect |
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index | Draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over... | Connect |
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Canadiana | Web access to a digital library of primary sources in Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of literature, women's... | Connect |
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Canadiana Collection | More than 80, 000 volumes dating back to the early 17th century that are about Canada, or written and published by Canadians, freely available online. This CIHM digital archive complements the materials digitized and... | Connect |
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CIHM Monograph Collection | More than 80, 000 volumes dating back to the early 17th century that are about Canada, or written and published by Canadians, freely available online. This CIHM digital archive complements the materials digitized and... | Connect |
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Defining Gender, 1450-1910 | Source materials from European archives intended for researching the humanities from a gendered perspective.Defining Gender contains original source material from British and European archives for those studying history... | Connect |
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Digital Theatre+ | Digital Theatre+ is a leading educational platform for the performing arts. It provides unlimited access to over 1000+ full-length productions and educational resources through collaboration with over 50 world-class... | Connect |
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Drama Online | Leddy Library subscribes to the Core collection and the Playwrights Canada Press collection. Providing more than 1000 plays and 100 monographs, from curriculum classics to contemporary works, this resource offers "Play... | Connect |
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Early English Books Online | Images of over 132,000 English-language works printed from 1473-1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and elsewhere.Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains images of virtually every work printed in England,... | Connect |
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Early European Books Online | A diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project, together with all pre-... | Connect |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) | Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a vast eighteenth-century library at your desktop—a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800.... | Connect |
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Eighteenth Century Journals Portal | Rare journals printed between c1685 and 1835 illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. They offer effective coverage of the important issues of the period, and are invaluable to... | Connect |
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