Literature Resource Guide, page 3

Electronic resources

The following items are a selection of electronic materials that are available for research and study when you visit the Library. Most of these items can be accessed at computer workstations throughout the Library. Staff at the Information Centre and the Redmond Barry Reading Room information desks can help you locate these resources.

AUSTLit (Australian Literary Database)
Provides information on almost 370,000 works of creative and critical Australian literature - published in a range of print and electronic sources - and more than 60,000 Australian authors and literary organisations, from 1780 to the present day.

British Humanities Index
Indexes around 300 international humanities journals and newspapers published in the UK, covering every branch of the humanities.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
The particular strength of this database is that it is more than just an index; it includes the full-text of about 13,000 out of copyright poems. This is in addition to the 250,000 poetry citations from anthologies and collected works, many of which are held by the State Library. The database also includes short biographies of poets, reviews of anthologies, notes on form, and a glossary of prosodic terms.

EBSCOhost
Indexes 3000 journal titles, of which over 1900 titles are full-text; accesses a number of databases including MLA, Masterfile Premier.

Index Translationum
Index Translationum gives bibliographic information about translations of books from over 100 countries since 1979. All fields are covered but 50% of references are to works of literature. Other subject areas are human and social sciences, and pure sciences.

MLA (Modern Language Association)
Bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to 1963 and containing over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

PCI (Periodicals Contents Index)
An electronic index to millions of articles published in thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences since 1770.

Times Literary Supplement (TLS)
Apart from book reviews, this database provides reference sources for news reports, articles, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, law reports, business and economic information, education, arts reviews and sport; including details of photographs, illustrations, graphs and tables.

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900
Indexes articles on literature, culture, politics, religion, economics, art, science, archaeology and philosophy from printed British sources of the Victorian period.

The Whole Story: 3000 years of sequels and sequences
Information in the record includes author, title, series title, number in series, date, and additional notes in some cases. 

World of Quotations
Contains 65,000 quotations searchable by subject, author, keywords, dates, author's nationality, occupation or gender, as well as by character in a movie, play or novel; or combinations of all of the above. It will help you verify the exact wording of a quotation, who said or wrote it, the title of the work in which it appears, where in the work it appears, and the date of the quotation.