Find Databases

A comprehensive public reference library containing a searchable database of reference, verse, and classic literature.

More Info

The database provides access to information about Basque topics written or produced after 1994.

More Info

Bertolt Brecht Werke

Proxy Required
Bertolt Brecht's work has always provoked heated discussion, though today he is viewed as principally a classicist and a rationalist.

More Info

Recognized as one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century scholarship, the Bibliography of American Literature describes in exhaustive detail the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930.

More Info

The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 737,175 records (as of July 9, 2009) on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

More Info

The BTL Online database provides electronic access to all editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, ranging from antiquity and late antiquity to medieval and neo-Latin texts.

More Info

Reflecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest, this Retrospective database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.

Access to the database is limited to 3 users.

More Info

The Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online (IEDO) reconstructs the lexicon for the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European.

More Info

Access to Jacoby Online and Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online. Open access content includes Brill Polyglot Bible and The Literary History of Medicine Online.

More Info

E-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc.

More Info

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 provides access to information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America.

More Info

Early American imprints. Series I, Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800 provides access to the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia to include a broad range of recently uncovered books, pamphlets, broadsides, and U.S. House and Senate Bills and Resolutions. This resource offers nearly 1,000 rare and unique items printed during a 130-year period spanning the colonial era and the formation of the new nation.

More Info

Early American imprints. Series II, Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1801-1819 provides full-text access to American books, pamphlets and broadsides published from 1801-1819, covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States. In addition to books, broadsides and pamphlets, the collection includes published reports and the works of many European authors reprinted for the American public. A large number of state papers and early government materials—including presidential letters and congressional, state and territorial resolutions—chronicle the political and geographic growth of the developing American nation.

More Info

Early English Books Online (EEBO) a digital library of works from STC I (Pollard & Redgrave), STC II (Wing), and the Thomason Tracts - over 125,000 individual titles.

More Info

Early European Books

Proxy Required
This is an extraordinary resource at its inception and will be even more so upon its completion in a few years.

More Info

eBooks on EBSCOhost

Proxy Required
This web site provides access to the full-text content of 4,274 e-books purchased by the USC Libraries from netLibrary.

More Info

Originally created for the 2009 Poe bicentennial exhibition by the Harry Ransom Center (HRC) of the University of Texas, Austin, this Poe collection includes the private collections of William H. Koester and of J. H. Whitty, famed Poe scholar and collector.

More Info

One of the largest resources of rare materials ever collected in microfilm or electronic formats.

More Info

96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles.

More Info

This is the digital version of the classic writing manual from 1918 written by William Strunk.

More Info

The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 mainly, but not exclusively, in English published mainly in the British Isles and North America from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.

More Info

Essay and General Literature Index, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, is a unique reference database that cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.

More Info