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Database/Vendor	Subjects	Contents	Coverage	Dates/Updates
ABELL (1920-2001) Chadwyck-Healey	Monographs, literary works, book reviews, essays, doctoral dissertations, and journal articles on English language and literature	Citations	Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and full text of 71 related journals	1920-2001 Annual
African-American Poetry (1750-1900) Chadwyck-Healey	Poetry	Text	3,000+ poems written by African-American poets	1750-1900 ---
American Drama (1714-1915) Chadwyck-Healey	Drama	Text	1,500+ dramatic works reflecting American writing in a wide variety of genres	1714-1915 ---
American Poetry (1600-1900) Chadwyck-Healey	Poetry	Text	40,000+ poems written by 200+ American poets	1600-1900 ---
ARTFL Project University of Chicago	French language & culture	bibliography, text	Portal to nearly 2000 texts, including classic works of French literature, poetry, non-fiction prose, and technical writing.	17th-20th centuries/ongoing
Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) Chadwyck-Healey	American literature	Citations	40,000+ records of the work of approximately 300 writers	Revolution-1930 Monthly
Canadian Poetry Chadwyck-Healey	Poetry	Text	12,000+ poems 142 Canadian poets	1600-ca.1930 ---
Early American Fiction (1789-1850) Chadwyck-Healey	Fiction	Text	Facsimile page images and keyword-searchable text for 400+ works of American prose fiction	1789-1850 ---
Early American Fiction (1789-1875) Chadwyck-Healey	Fiction	Text	875 first editions of American novels and short stories by major and minor writers of the period	1789-1875 ---
Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700) Chadwyck-Healey	Fiction	Text	200+ works from this period preceding the emergence of the realist novel as its dominant form	1500-1700 ---
Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780) Chadwyck-Healey	Fiction	Text	96 complete works of English prose from key writers of the period	1700-1780 ---
English Drama (1280-1915) Chadwyck-Healey	Drama	Text	3,900+ plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde	1280-1915 ---
English Poetry Chadwyck-Healey	Poetry	Text	165,000+ poems written by 1,250+ English poets	600-1900 ---
English Poetry (2nd Ed.) Chadwyck-Healey	English poetry	Text	183,000+ poems by 2,700+ English poets	8^th to 20^th centuries ---
Essay and General Literature Index Ebsco	Humanities and social sciences, economics, political science, history, philosophy, religion, literary criticism, drama, and film	Citations	3500+ English language essay collections and anthologies	1985+ Annually
Faber Poetry Library Chadwyck-Healey	Poetry	Text	31 poets, 91 volumes published by Faber & Faber	1925+ ---
Literature Criticism Online Gale	Literature	Text	Centuries of scholarly and popular commentary on authors and their works from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers	19th century - Annually
MLA Directory of Periodicals Chadwyck-Healey	Literature, language, linguistics, and folklore	Citations	Information about 3,700+ periodicals	Latest edition Yearly
Naxos Spoken Word Library	Classic novels, plays and poetry in the literary arts, humanities and education	Audio Text	More than 350 works by 100 authors, playwrights and poets read by professional actors	----- ~30 titles/year
Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1782-1903) Chadwyck-Healey	Fiction	Text	250 British and Irish novels, popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels, and children's literature	1782-1903 ---
OED Online Oxford University Press	The ultimate authority on English language words and quotations.	Text	Complete content of the 23-volume Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition	1997 Quarterly
Poets on Screen Chadwyck-Healey Headphones available in Music Listening Room.	Poetry	Video	600+ filmed readings by poets of classic and contemporary poems	1300-2001 Yearly
Twentieth Century African- American Poetry Chadwyck-Healey	Poetry	Text	10,000+ poems written by 70 influential and important African-American poets	1900-2000 ---
Twentieth Century American Poetry Chadwyck-Healey	Poetry	Text	52,000+ poems written by 104 poets	1900-2000 ---
Twentieth Century English Poetry Chadwyck-Healey	Poetry	Text	598 voulumes by 283 poets	1900-2000 ---

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