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Collections of Texts

• African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776 (Northern Illinois University)
• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• American Drama Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• American Film Scripts Online [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• American Poetry Full-Text Database (pre-1900) Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• American Poetry (pre-1900 and vol. 1 of 20th Century) Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• ARTFL French Women Writers (Restricted to Subscribing Institutions)
• ARTFL Main French Database (TLF) (Restricted to Subscribing Institutions)
• ARTFL La Poésie provençale, 1130-1300 (Restricted to Subscribing Institutions)
• ARTFL Textes de français ancien by the Laboratoire de Français Ancien (Restricted to Subscribing Institutions)
• Asian American Drama [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Autour du romantisme: le roman, 1792-1886 Editions Bibliopolis (Restricted)
• B.A.S.I.L.E.: Le Corpus de la littérature narrative du Moyen Age au XXe siècle: Romans, Contes, Nouvelles Éditions Champion Électronique (Restricted)
• Bertolt Brechts Werke, Jubiläumsausgabe Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• Bible King James Version (Open to the Public)
• Biblionet: cent classiques de la littérature française Editions Bibliopolis
• La Bibliothèque des lettres Editions Bibliopolis (Restricted)
• Black Drama - 1850 to Present [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Black Short Fiction [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Black Thought and Culture [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Black Women Writers [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Le Corpus des oeuvres de philosophie en langue française Editions Bibliopolis (Restricted)
• La Critique littéraire de Laharpe à Proust Editions Bibliopolis (Restricted)
• Die Deutsche Lyrik Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• Early Encounters in North America [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Early English Books Online - TCP (Restricted to TCP Partner Institutions)
• Early English Prose Fiction Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• Écrits sur l'art de Diderot à Proust Editions Bibliopolis (Restricted)
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• English Poetry Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• English Prose Drama Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• English Verse Drama Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• The Faber Poetry Library Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
• Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• Goethes Werke Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• Illinois during the Civil War, 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• Illinois during the Gilded Age, 1866-1896 Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• Italian Women Writers University of Chicago Library
• Kafkas Werke Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• Latin American Women Writers [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Lincoln/Net Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
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• Literary Theory together with The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• North American Women's Drama [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with The University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (Restricted to Subscribing Institutions)
• Patrologia Latina Database Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• La Poésie française du Moyen-Age à la première guerre mondiale Editions Bibliopolis (Restricted)
• Prairie Fire: The Illinois Country 1673-1818 Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• The Published Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein [Via UofC Proxy] InteLex (UofC-Access Only)
• La Révolution et l'Empire Editions Bibliopolis (Restricted)
• Romanciers réalistes et naturalistes Editions Bibliopolis (Restricted)
• Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with The University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Shakespeare:
  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Works [Via UofC Proxy], Oxford University Press (UofC-Access Only)
  • The First Folio of Shakespeare prepared by Charlton Hinman and published by The Oxford Text Archive
• Théâtre du grand siècle Editions Bibliopolis (Restricted)
• Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• Twentieth-Century American Poetry Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• Twentieth-Century English Poetry Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• Twentieth Century North American Drama [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Voltaire électronique Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
• W. B. Yeats Collection Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)

The following databases will be loaded under PhiloLogic. Some are in preparation; others not yet published.

• Acta Sanctorum, Chadwyck-Healey (Chadwyck-Healey Interface)
• The Bible in English, Chadwyck-Healey (Chadwyck-Healey Interface)
• Early American Fiction, Chadwyck-Healey (Chadwyck-Healey Interface)
• Luthers Werke, Chadwyck-Healey (Chadwyck-Healey Interface)
• Schillers Werke, Chadwyck-Healey (Chadwyck-Healey Interface)

Dictionaries:
The following dictionaries are open to the public for searching by headword. Full-text searching, however, is restricted to institutions subscribing to ARTFL unless otherwise stated.

• Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique (open to the public)
• Dictionnaries d'autrefois (Searches the following together)
  • Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue françoyse (1606)
  • Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française. First Edition (1694)
  • Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française. Fourth Edition (1762)
  • Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française. Fifth Edition (1798)
  • Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française. Sixth Edition (1835)
  • Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française. Eighth Edition (1932-35)
• Estienne's Dictionarium Latinogallicum
• French-English Dictionary (open to the public)

• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, including Tamil, Pali, Sanskrit, and many more.

Encyclopedias:

• Diderot's Encyclopédie (Restricted to Subscribing Institutions)