Literature Online (LION)

LION contains about 350,000 literary works:

• English poetry, drama and prose from 600.
• American poetry, drama and prose from 1607.
• Canadian poetry from 1610 to the present.
• Also includes literary works from: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, South Asia, South Africa, the Caribbean and West Indies.

Full texts are mainly out-of-copyright (pre- ca. 1925).

• Exception: 20th century poetry.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

EEBO is a full-text and full-image database of books printed in the British Isles, British America, and other countries from 1475 to 1700. It includes:

• Thomason Tracts: collection of 22,000 broadsides ranging from political speeches to religious tracts to newspaper articles from the period 1640-1661.
• Tract Supplement: broadsides, pamphlets and scrapbooks primarily from the British Library.

Fulltext is not searchable in Concordia Libraries' version. Database is not complete: digitization to continue for 5-10 years.

How to view or save an entire document in PDF:

• Click on the camera icon next to the document
• Check the box next to Add this record to your Marked List
• Click on MARKED LIST on the EEBO banner
• Click on Download document image sets in PDF format
• Click in the radio button next to Download entire document
• Click on DOWNLOAD
• View a screen cast demonstration of this process

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

ECCO is a full-text and full-image database of about 150,000 English-language and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Available at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec website, listed under On-line resources: Journals, magazines, newspapers and databases.

• Subscription for remote services required.
• Free to all Quebec residents.

Alexander Street Press

Concordia Libraries subscribe to the Alexander Street Press Core Collections, which include full-text drama collections:

• Twentieth Century North American Drama, when complete, will contain the full text of 2,000 plays written from the late 1800s to the present by more than 300 playwrights from North America, as well as some plays from non-North American playwrights.
• Includes Asian American Drama, Black Drama and North American Women’s Drama.

Dictionary of Old English, Old English Corpus

Produced with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the National Endowment for the Humanites, and published by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, the Dictionary of Old English, Old English Corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English, with a dictionary and more than 3000 texts.

Middle English Compendium

The Middle English Compendium includes three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary (MED), a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.

Women Writers Online (WWO)

Women Writers Online consists of electronic texts of works in English, or in English translation, from Brown University's Women Writers Project, covering the period from 1400 to 1850. Includes access to Renaissance Women Online. The texts can be browsed or searched by keywords.

InteLex Past Masters

InteLex Past Masters includes a collection of English Letters originally published in print by Oxford University Press and Pickering & Chatto. This collection encompasses the letters, correspondence, and in some instances the diaries and the notebooks of the most significant figures in English literature, letters, politics, the church and the arts.

• It also includes the Women Writers collection, which contains not only the correspondence and journals, but also the primary works of important women writers in the English Language.
• It also includes the History and Philosophy of Science collection, featuring works by Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and others.

Early Canadiana Online (ECO)

Early Canadiana Online is a digital library providing access to almost 14,000 digitized volumes comprising over 2 million pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century, with particular emphasis on literature, women's history, Native studies, and the history of French Canada.

ProQuest Combined Canadian

ProQuest Combined Canadian provides fulltext of Canadian major daily newspapers. Global and Mail from 1977. Montreal Gazette from 1985.

• Indexes Canadian magazines, academic journals and special interest publications with fulltext articles from more than 100 titles. Searches can be limited to peer-reviewed publications.
• Also includes selected fulltext and indexing of poems, plays, and short stories.

Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)

CPI.Q provides coverage of all subject areas with an emphasis on Canadian and international issues. It provides citations to more than 400 English and French language journals and magazines, including approximately 30 American titles.

• Fulltext of articles from approximately 160 of the titles.
• Also includes the fulltext of Globe and Mail articles from 1997 onwards.
• Searches can be limited to peer-reviewed publications.
• Index: 1980 onward. Fulltext generally begins in 1995 (coverage varies depending on the journal title).
• Also includes selected fulltext and indexing of poems, plays, and short stories.

Theatre in Video

Created by Alexander Street Press Theatre in Video, covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history, featuring original stage productions, captured and recorded while performed for a live theatre audience. When complete, Theatre in Video will contain more than 350 full-length plays and documentaries.

Play Index

Play Index provides citations and descriptive annotations to plays written or translated into English and published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present. Provides links to some full text plays available on the Internet.

• Search for the title or author of a play.
• In the set of results, click on Full Display.
• Click on Find this play in a book.
• Search CLUES by the title of the book to see if Concordia Libraries have the book.

Inter-Play

Inter-Play is an online index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals and in a variety of languages. Separately-published plays are not included. It contains approximately 19,000 citations to plays. The sources indexed range from the late 19th century through the current year.

• Search for the title or author of a play.
• In the set of results, look for the source title, abbreviated so:.
• Search CLUES by the title of the source to see if Concordia Libraries have it.

Short Story Index

Short Story Index lists approximately 65,000 short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. The fulltext of about 900 stories is included.

Humanities Abstracts

Humanities Abstracts provides citations to literary works published in periodicals. Search options include poem, short story and drama.

• Humanities Abstracts also provides citations (with abstracts from 1994) to articles in over 400 periodicals in theology, religion, performing arts, literary and political criticism, language and literature, philosophy, history, and classical studies.
• 1984 onward.

Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry (print)

Concordia Libraries have the following titles in the printed reference collection:

• Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies
• Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works