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American Book Prices Current User limit: 1 maximum ABPC indexes auction sales of books, manuscripts and autographs reported by American Book Prices Current. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	This is a library-subscribed resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for terms and conditions regarding use restrictions. Please note that Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide when using this resource. If you require assistance, please contact us here.
American Periodicals Series Online Includes over 1500 American magazines and journals published between the colonial era the beginning of the 20th century. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
BookFinder BookFinder.com is an openly available search engine that searches over 150 million books for sale (new, used, rare, out-of-print, and includes textbooks). more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.
British Literary Manuscripts UBC Students, Staff & Faculty - click on "Login via your home Institution". Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE. Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
British National Corpus A 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.
Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson presents Jonson's complete writings in the light of current editorial thinking and recent scholarly interpretation and discovery. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
Canadian Book Review Annual Online More than 40,000 reviews of Canadian-authored books over the last 35 years. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Canadiana Online 'Canadian' source material written by Canadians, published in Canada or written/published outside the country but about Canada. Includes all the content formerly available through 'Early Canadiana online'. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
CanLit Guides CanLit Guides is an open educational resource, created and maintained by Canadian Literature, which supplements classroom learning and private study. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) First-time users must register for an account to benefit from UBC's academic license. Use this link to create a new account affiliated with UBC. UBC faculty and graduate students may also request access to a downloadable version of COCA. The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is a large, genre-balanced corpus of American English. The corpus contains more than one billion words of text (25+ million words each year 1990-2019) from eight genres. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	This is a library-subscribed resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for terms and conditions regarding use restrictions. Please note that Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide when using this resource. If you require assistance, please contact us here.
Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) First-time users must register for an account to benefit from UBC's academic license. Use this link to create a new account affiliated with UBC. UBC faculty and graduate students may also request access to a downloadable version of GloWbE. The corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE; pronounced “globe”) allows researchers to carry out comparisons between different varieties of English. It contains about 1.9 billion words of text from 20 countries. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Unknown Learning Management System? Unknown Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) First-time users must register for an account to benefit from UBC's academic license. Use this link to create a new account affiliated with UBC. UBC faculty and graduate students may also request access to a downloadable version of COHA. The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) contains more than 475 million words of text from the 1820s-2010s, balanced by genre decade by decade. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Permitted uses not available. Please contact e-resources for details.
Dictionary of American Regional English American regional vocabulary, from Adam’s housecat to Zydeco.This digital version is an interactive, multimedia tool that will greatly benefit both scholarly inquiry and general intellectual curiosity. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? Ask Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Dictionary of Canadianisms on historical principles (second edition) An historical dictionary that shows changes in the meanings of words over time. Includes words that have become outdated or obsolete and others that are now considered offensive or derogatory. These are clearly marked. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources Online A comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin and the first ever to focus on British Medieval Latin. Based on the close reading of thousands of Medieval Latin texts, both literary and documentary. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Ask Tell me more »
Dictionary of Old English Corpus The Dictionary of Old English Corpus in Electronic Form is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every Old English text. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Drama Online Includes Core Collection, Shakespeare's Globe on Screen, Playwrights Canada Press, Royal Shakespeare Company Live, Critical Studies & Performance Practice, Nick Hern Books Modern Plays, and National Theatre Collections more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales & British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) EEBO-TCP creates XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early print books in ProQuest's Early English Books Online. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Early English Prose Fiction Over 200 complete works of English prose fiction from the period 1500 to 1700 by writers from the British Isles. Includes novels, stories, tales, jest-books, and satires. New ProQuest site. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Eighteenth Century Collections Online Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE. Eighteenth Century Collections Online delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
Eighteenth Century Fiction This collection brings together 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700 - 1780 by writers from the British Isles. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Eighteenth Century Journals: Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815 British periodicals of the eighteenth century. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
Electronic Enlightenment Remember to Log Out. User limit: 1 maximum Over 69,000 items of edited correspondence discussing everything from religion to animal rights, vulcanology to classical archeology, economic modelling to celebrity culture from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? Ask Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
ESTC : English Short Title Catalog Lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.
Gale Literary Sources (formerly Artemis Literary Sources) Indexes over a million full-text articles from scholarly journals & literary magazines, critical essays, topic overviews, biographies, & more. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Gale NewsVault Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE. A range of historical newspaper and periodical collections. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	This resource contains multiple collections. License permissions vary by collection. For license permissions specific to a collection, please consult the full display for the resource page. If you require assistance, please contact here.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984 This database will migrate to the new EBSCOhost user interface on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907 more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Informit Indigenous Collection Collection includes journals, reports and monographs from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada, the US and the Pacific. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? Yes Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
International Bibliography of Humanism and Renaissance Focuses on 16th and 17th century European history and culture. Also includes publications on the interaction with the wider world through exploration, colonization, slavery, and the Christian mission more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Ask Tell me more »
Literary Manuscripts: 17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
Literary Manuscripts: Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library Literary manuscripts supplemented by rare printed material. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
Middle English Compendium The Middle English Compendium offers easy access to and interconnectivity among three major Middle English electronic resources. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? No Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
MLA Handbook Plus Digital version of the 9th Edition of the Modern Language Association's (MLA) Handbook -- a complete resource for documenting/citing sources using MLA's citation style. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Ask Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Ask Tell me more »
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This database will migrate to the new EBSCOhost user interface on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. The MLA International Bibliography is the core database for English language and literature. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Naxos Spoken Word Library User limit: 10 maximum Naxos provides online streaming access to over 400 audio books, comprising over 1,100 works and stories. Categories range from classic fiction to Shakespeare to selected children's works. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
New Oxford Shakespeare Interactive resource presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? Ask Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
News on the Web (NOW) First-time users must register for an account to benefit from UBC's academic license. Use this link to create a new account affiliated with UBC. UBC faculty and graduate students may also request access to a downloadable version of NOW. The News on the Web (NOW) corpus contains billions of words of data from online magazines and newspapers in 20 English-speaking countries from 2010 to the present. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? No Learning Management System? Unknown Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Nineteenth Century Collections Online Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE. Fully-searchable primary documents arranged in subject-specific archives. Encompasses a variety of disciplines from History to Literature to Women's studies to Science more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
Nineteenth Century Index [C19] This database provides integrated access to the twelve most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives for 19th century studies. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
North American Indian Thought and Culture American and Canadian primary source materials. Mainly textual materials from American libraries (books, articles, pamphlets, oral histories). Indexed for place, event and individuals. Also audio, video, images. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
Novelist NoveList Plus a database of reading recommendations, presenting fiction, nonfiction and audiobooks and includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the authority on the English language. It is a guide to the meaning, history & pronunciation of 600,000 words from across the English-speaking world. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Oxford Handbooks Online The Oxford Handbooks series covers 17 subject areas and UBC Library has access to all titles in all collections. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Parker Library An interactive, web-based workspace designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Punch historical archive Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE. The celebrated British humorous periodical whose contributors ranged from Thackery to Wodehouse. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape Literary manuscripts,letters and other material by Wordsworth, Coleridge, de Quincey and others supplemented by selections from printed books and images of the Lake District created by Gainsborough, Turner and others. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
Routledge Performance Archive User limit: 9 maximum Streaming audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	This is a library-subscribed resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for terms and conditions regarding use restrictions. Please note that Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide when using this resource. If you require assistance, please contact us here.
Shakespeare / Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare Includes eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66; 24 original printings of individual plays; selected apocryphal plays; over 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? No Tell me more »
Termium Plus Government of Canada's terminology and linguistic database. French, English, Spanish dictionary. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: Open to Everyone Access open for everyone (other restrictions may apply)	This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE. Contains images of every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902-2013. Fully-searchable. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? No Alumni Access? Yes Tell me more »
World Shakespeare Bibliography Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions produced from 1960 to present. more info » ^ Back to Search	Access: UBC Only Access open only for UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)	Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Text and Data Mining? Ask Alumni Access? No Tell me more »

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