Useful Databases
The premier bibliography for students and scholars of literature. Indexes all major university press publications and scholarly journals. Hosted by EBSCO so you can expand your search to other EBSCO databases.
Contains indexing & abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of the titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are also available for over one hundred journals.
This gateway to African American studies features scholarly essays, journal and newspaper articles video, and more. Because of the comprehensive scope, the Black Studies Center is a good place to begin your research.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Includes archived journals that span many disciplines. It offers retrieval of high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues & pages as they were originally designed, printed, & illustrated.
The definitive index to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. This database contains indexing and abstracts for more than 150 LGBT-specific core periodicals and 300 LGBT-specific core books and reference works.
A database that includes over 2 million master's theses & dissertations. Provides coverage of multiple fields of study.
Hosted by Web of Science, this looks unrelated to literary studies, but the "Cited Reference Search" tab allows you to track down which scholars are citing your work or the work of authors or theorists you may be studying.
A comprehensive compilation of case law, articles, publications, news, and court documents. Useful in literary studies for knowing the first time a term appears in print or how often it is used in news reporting.
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 208 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
"Early Modern Books covers material from the British Isles and Europe for the period 1450-1700. An integrated search across both Early English Books Online and Early European Books allows scholars to view materials from over 225 source libraries worldwide."
Scholarly Organizations
Formed to foster an overall greater appreciation for contemporary American poets.
The principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several kinds of literature and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself.
"The American Literature Association is committed to exploring the richness and diversity of American writing and welcomes all forms of scholarship."
"MLA has worked for more than a century to strengthen the study and teaching of languages and [works of] literature."
The principal goal of the organization is to produce and promote information about women and gender through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens.
Provides a comprehension collection of scholarly works that focus on events pivotal to the history and culture of African Americans.
"A nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field."
An organization that contributes to the global study of book history across a multitude of disciplines.
"Dedicated to the advancement of literary and linguistic scholarship and teaching in modern languages."
"The only national non-profit organization committed to historic preservation, protection, understanding, education, and enjoyment of our nineteenth-century heritage."
Literary Awards and Prizes
UF Links
Remote Login
Provides instructions on how to access UF Libraries' proxy server and the Virtual Private Network (VPN).
UF Library Catalog
Find books, articles, and other resources held by the University of Florida.
UF Digital Collection (UF DC)
Access the University of Florida's collection of digitized resources, including dissertations and theses, digitized newspapers and historical photographs, and historical documents.
The University of Florida Libraries established and supports the IR@UF in order to offer a central location for the collection, preservation, and dissemination of scholarly, research, and creative production alongside historical materials from the University of Florida.