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Access to volumes one and two of the National Theatre collection. This resource provides access to 50 filmed performances from the National Theatre's live broadcasts. Productions include: Cat on a hot tin roof; King Lear; Jane Eyre; Antigone; Hedda Gabler; A view from the bridge and the Barber shop chronicles and more. Learning materials are available to accompany the performances.

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text provides access to references to journal articles, books, and dissertations in disciplines including: language, literature, folklore, film studies, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts from the early 20th century to the present. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography. Full text access to over 1000 journals is included.

This is an upgraded version of MLA International Bibliography containing additional full text access.

Humanities Source is a useful resource for anyone studying or researching the humanities. It provides full text access to over 1400 journals and citations to over 3.5 million articles including book reviews.

Gale Literature provides access to a wide range of literary resources including:

Contemporary Authors Online
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
Literature Criticism Online
Literature Resource Centre
LitFinder
Scribner Writer Series
Something About the Author Online
Twayne's Authors Series

For more information about each source click on What's Inside from the main search screen.

The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature contains over a million records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1892 onwards.

LLBA indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.

Useful for English and Creative Writing, Languages and Speech and Language Therapy.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature (over 1,600 journals) of the arts and humanities from 1975 to date. Useful for: Architecture, History, Languages, English Literature, Journalism and Speech and Language Therapy.

An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, Humanities Index indexes over 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. There are regular monthly updates.

Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The Library subscribes to the following JSTOR journal collections: Arts & Sciences I,II,III,IV & VII, and Business II. JSTOR archives contains the full-text of non-current issues of journals digitised back to the first issue published to a date generally 3 to 5 years from the most current published issue. We also have access to current content for a few publications on the JSTOR platform. The Library also has access to the JSTOR digitised collection of 19th Century British Pamphlets.

Access to titles from the Literature subject area of the Oxford Handbooks Online Service. Our access is to titles up to and including the 2018 handbooks only. SUPrimo contains records for the titles to which we have access.

Access to many of Oxford University Press's reference e-book titles on their digital platform.

The London Stage is a reference work documenting theatrical performances in eighteenth-century London. The resource covers performances from the period 1660-1800. Information has been compiled from the playbills, newspapers and theatrical diaries of the period. It is possible to search by actor, role, performance, theatre or date.

SAGE Research Methods contains more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences. It supports research at all levels and across all subjects by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. Also includes cases, datasets, data analysis and materials on data visualization, qualitative and quantitative research methods, statistical methods and statistical packages such as Python, R and SPSS among others.

The Routledge History of Feminism resource covers the period of the long nineteenth century (1776-1928). It includes primary and secondary resources including books, chapters, journal articles and more. Themes of the resource are: politics and law; religion and belief; education; literature and writings; women at home; society and culture; empire and movements and ideologies.

Communication Source provides access to information and resources in areas related to communication and mass media. Full text access is provided to over 300 journals. Useful for: English and Creative Writing, Journalism, Media and Communication, Languages, Speech and Language Therapy.

EEBO-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online (EEBO) database.

Strathclyde staff and students can access page images from EEBO via the Historical Text service.

African Writers Series provides access to the key texts of modern African literature. It includes over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and prose.

Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins to the end of the seventeenth century. It provides full text access to materials from up to the end of the seventeenth century. Strathclyde has access to Early European Books Collections 1 to 4 on the ProQuest platform.

Full text or page images of over 400,000 books published in England from 1475 to 1900. The service includes EEBO (Early English Books Online), ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), Nineteenth Century Books from the British Library Collection, and also the UK Medical Heritage Library.

More than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768-1842. It also includes biographical and critical essays. See also Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period and Romanticism Redefined.

Full text of Medieval and Early Modern books. Searches digitised versions of documents relating to Colonial, English, Irish and Scottish history. Covers the period 1100 - 1800.

Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals (Part One) covers the advent of commercial lifestyle publishing in Britain. Content is drawn from the collections of the British Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Australia, and National Library of South Africa. Topics covered include the rarely documented aspects of women, children, humour, and leisure activity in the Victorian age. The rise of magazine publishing is reflected in the selection of publications, which spans publications aimed at and tailored to various audiences, including women and children.

You can either search Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals on its own here, or with other primary sources using Gale Primary Sources.

A searchable collection of literary works focusing in the period between 1800 and 1830.

Access to 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women. It also includes critical reviews and scholarly essays. See also Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period and Romanticism Redefined.

Access to the complete works of Ben Jonson alongside an extensive critical and documentary archive. This resource provides access to Jonson's plays, court masques and entertainments, poems, prose and letters. It is possible to search this resource using either old English spelling, or modern spelling. From 2018-2022, access to this database was purchased through the generosity of Keith Wright Endowment Fund. The resource is now publicly accessible.

Strathclyde has access to the Manchester Gothic subject collection. Topics included in this collection include literature, film, television, theatre and visual arts dating from the eighteenth century to the present day. The eBooks which Strathclyde users can access can be found via SUPrimo. Also available here is the archive of the Gothic Studies journal (1999-2018). Current access to this journal can be found in SUPrimo.

Access to a collection of over 300 novels from the 18th and 19th century. Authors include: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells and many more.