Literature Online (aka LION)

Literature Online (aka LION). 

LION can be one-stop shopping in many cases.  At the bottom of the left-hand column on the home page, you will see a link for the “Individual Collections,”  all of which are listed separately on the database pages.  However, they are also contained in this database and are cross-searchable:

The following literature collections are cross-searchable via the Literature Online interface:

•    AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
•    AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES
•    AMERICAN DRAMA 1714–1915
•    AMERICAN POETRY
•    ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE,
      1920– (ABELL)
•    CANADIAN POETRY
•    EARLY AMERICAN FICTION 1789–1850
•    EARLY AMERICAN FICTION 1789–1875
•    EARLY ENGLISH PROSE FICTION
•    EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION
•    ENGLISH DRAMA
•    ENGLISH POETRY
•    ENGLISH POETRY, SECOND EDITION
•    THE FABER POETRY LIBRARY
•    KING JAMES BIBLE
•    NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION
•    TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
•    TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY
•    TWENTIETH-CENTURY DRAMA
•    TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH POETRY

Additionally, nearly 400 volumes from the Penguin Classics series have been recently added to Literature Online, including many works in translation.  These can be found by searching for author or title.

For journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and reference material, I go to the “Criticism & Reference” link.  In addition to entries from the MLA International Bibliography, you may have noted that the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) is included in the above list of literature collections.  While ABELL usually indexes the same material as MLA (which causes some duplication of entries), sometimes the entries are more varied.  ABELL also includes reviews.
 
When the link to one of the ejournals didn’t work, by looking at the Find it@Emory page, I saw that the journal was available in LION.  Currently, the database contains 341 full-text journals.  Go to "Full-Text Journals" in the left-hand column on the home page.  That link will take you to an alphabetical list of journals.  Farther down the home page is the "Reference Shelf," which contains:  Concise Oxford Dictionary, Webster's Dictionary, Shakespeare Glossary, and King James Bible.  There is even a combined search, which will search across all of these reference works.
 
Check it out!  You may find that Literature Online is a very helpful database.

Sandra Still
English and Women's Studies Librarian