E 379 R: Producing American Literature

Arguably, the world's most comprehensive bibliography of library holdings, with over 49 million bibliographic records for books, maps, musical scores, newspapers, periodicals and more.

A large digital library of books from Google Books, the Internet Archive, libraries at HathiTrust partner institutions, and other commercial digitization projects.

University of Texas students, faculty, and staff can download materials in the public domain (before 1923) and perform full text searches of all materials in the HathiTrust Catalog. NOTE: Click the "Log In" button and choose "University of Texas at Austin" from the drop-down menu. Select "continue" and then enter your EID and password when prompted.

Searches complete text of books from selected library collections and publishers. Search works just like a regular Google search -- when book content contains a match for selected search terms, Google provides links to it in the search results. Depending on a few factors, Google displays everything from a few short excerpts to the entire book.

The Modern Language Association's database of literary criticism and secondary scholarship.

Search for scholarly criticism and peer-reviewed journals. Includes collections of reference articles on authors, literary works, and theory.