Features more than 21 of Shakespeare's plays recorded live on the Globe stage. This award-winning digital library has been created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. It is the only resource to combine exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations, and audio plays.

More than 100,000 full text books originally published in the United Kingdom and Ireland between the years 1473 and 1700.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

The full text of books and broadsides published in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland in the eighteenth century. By default you will cross-search five other historical databases.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

The digital version of the 14-volume encyclopedia (2th edition, 2006) offers an overview of all aspects in the field of language and linguistics.

is a cloud-based digital research environment designed to support Digital Humanities research and easily create, manage, organize and share content sets. If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). It is also possible to add text-files (.txt) to the Lab yourself. You need an account with Google or Microsoft to make use it. Je

In Gale Literary Sources you cross-search databases like Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Literature Criticism Online, Contemporary Authors Online, Literature Resources Center and LitFinder to find among other things the full text of literary works, journal articles in the field of literature studies, reviews and author biographies.

The full text of The Guardian and its predecessor, The Manchester Guardian (1821 - 2003) can be searched here, along with The Observer (1791-2003).
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

Complete searchable archive of the International Herald Tribune. If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Latino Literature brings together poetry, fiction and plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States. Furthermore Latino Literature contains resources, such as advertisements, flyers and programmes for plays. Latino Literature supports not only literature scholars, but also the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigrations issues, and political history.

LLBA is an international bibliography with more than 400,000 abstracts in the area of linguistics and related disciplines. Provides abstracts of journal articles, of books, book chapters, and dissertations.

International bibliography produced by the Modern Language Association in the area of modern linguistics and literary theory, with references from 1926 onwards. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals (under Advanced Search). Does not contain book reviews.
MLA also contains records from the JSTOR Language and Literature Collection and from the Asian Studies collection. The oldest of these go back to the 1840s.

Searchable archive of many nineteenth century American newspapers. If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

The full text of The Observer (1791-2003) can be searched here, along with The Guardian and its predecessor, The Manchester Guardian (1821 – 2003).
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

Orlando provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from any number of perspectives into centuries of women's writing.

A large encyclopedia on American literature. Contains essays on authors, periods, literary movements and genres. Each essay ends with a bibliography for further reading.

A large encyclopedia on British literature including Ireland. Contains essays on authors, periods, literary movements and genres. Each essay ends with a bibliography for further reading.

Historical dictionary of the English language.

Fulltext search facilities in about 120 jazz periodicals published in the USA between 1914 and 2006. New journals are added regularly.

This archive of The Times provides full text access to the years 1785 - 2011. By default you will cross-search five other historical databases.
The Times Digital Archive data is available for research. Please contact the library (library@uu.nl) for more information. UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive offers full text access from 1902-2012. By default you will cross-search five other historical databases.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

In Van Dale Online is included Groot Woordenboek van de Nederlandse taal (also known as the Dikke van Dale) and these bilingual dictionaries: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish.

Annual journal on the current critical analysis of American literature. Contains bibliographic essays on important writers, from pre-1800 to the present.

The American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,000 men and women - from all eras and walks of life - whose lives have have influenced and shaped American history and culture.

The Arthurian Fiction database provides information on medieval Arthurian narratives and the manuscripts in which they are transmitted throughout Europe. It is a work in progress: many records are still waiting for completion. Via Suggestions you may contribute to the database.
The search possibilities are: manuscripts, narratives and persons (patron, scribe, owner). Facets may be used to narrow down your search results.

The BDMP comprises digital manuscripts of Samuel Beckett and transcriptions. And furthermore the Beckett Digital Library (BDL), a digital reconstruction of Samuel Beckett's personal library.

Continuation of the print edition.

Digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections, with descriptions of contents, history, etc.

Contains The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics (with books on literary periods and movements), The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (with books on individual philosophers) and The Cambridge Companions to Music (with books on individual composers).

Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages from the period 1789-1963. Extensive search possibilities.

This Dictionary of Irish biography contains comprehensive articles on over 9,000 lives of important Irish men and women (who have died by 31 December 2002).

The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary (A to I) of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language.

Database containing at least one copy of every surviving Old English text. In some cases, more than one copy is included, if it is significant because of dialect or date.

Digitized primary materials which offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Contains a host of full text books and illustrations. Divided into collections such as the Library of Southern literature and the North American Slave Narratives.
Searchable by subject.

Contains manuscripts, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. Use quotation marks to search for standard word combinations such as "Roman Empire".

Bibliographic database describing books and related materials, printed in the period 1473-1800 in the British Isles, the United States and territories governed by Britain, or materials wholly or partly in English printed elsewhere. The ESTC is also a union list: each record in the file has appended to it a list of locations at which copies of the item may be found.

International bibliography of translations. Contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO member states since 1979.
References registered before 1979 can be found in the printed editions of the Index Translationum.

Bibliography of lexicography. Contains many titles of dictionaries.

JSTOR offers full-text access to an archive database of ca. 700 English-language journals in various disciplines. All volumes (including the earliest) are available and can be searched in full text; the most recent years are not included in this archive due to copyright. Collections: Arts and Sciences I, II, III, V en VII, Business, Collection Ireland, Ecology and Botany, Health and General sciences, Language and Literature.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Nexis Uni (the successor to Lexis Nexis Academic) offers the full text of (many) articles from Dutch and international newspapers and newsmagazines. In addition Nexis Uni provides company information on Dutch and international businesses. Find out more on search options and other possibilities in Nexis Uni? Check Nexis Uni explained.

Reviews of literature translated into Dutch. The original articles have appeard in Dutch daily and weekly newspapers and magazines. Updated every fortnight.

This database contains the original edition of the extensive reference work The London stage, 1660-1800: a calendar of plays, entertainments and afterpieces: together with casts, box-receipts and contemporary comment: compiled from the playbills, and the theatrical diaries of the period. You can search by date, theatre, actor, role and performance. Data can be combined and visualized.

National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System.
Narcis is the national portal for scientific information including (open access) publications from the Dutch repositories, data sets from a number of data archives, and there are descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes included.

Nexis Uni (the successor to Lexis Nexis Academic) offers the full text of (many) articles from Dutch and international newspapers and newsmagazines. In addition Nexis Uni provides company information on Dutch and international businesses. Find out more on search options and other possibilities in Nexis Uni? Check Nexis Uni explained.

This database contains more than 180 UK nineteenth-century periodicals. By default you will cross-search five other historical databases.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

The Directory of Open Access Repositories. OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography tells the stories of over 50,000 people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to those who died in the year 2002.

Oxford Reference brings together language and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, quotations and reference works across various subject areas into a single cross-searchable resource.

International bibliography in the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies. TSB considers publications from other disciplines such as semiotics, communication studies, linguistics, sociology and psychology to the extent in which they are relevant and of interest to Translation Studies.
Translation Studies Abstracts Online is part of this bibliography.

International database of linguistic maps covering multiple periods and regions.

Bibliography of books and articles on Shakespeare, editions, films and productions. (off campus temporary unavailable, contact library.e-collection@uu.nl for a username and password)

Annotated bibliography (from 1919/20) on English language and culture: books and articles published in the previous year are commented on. Arranged by subject area.