e-Resources
In addition to electronic journals and e-books, Oxford provides access to a wide variety of databases and online services, including dictionaries, citation indexes, bibliographical and biographical reference works, periodicals indexing services and full-text databases.
OxLIP+
OxLIP+ is the main gateway to Oxford's electronic resources. It can be accessed in the EFL through our public access PCs in the Main Library. Full instructions for accessing databases are provided in the library, but brief descriptions of the most popular services for English are given below. You can also view our online guide to OxLIP+ eResources for English.
To learn more about using OxLIP+ try working through this Informs online OxLIP+ tutorial, created by the Bodleian Libraries' eResources team.
MLA International Bibliography
The MLA indexes articles published in over 4,000 humanities journals from 1963 to the present. You can search for articles by author, subject or title, and complex combined keyword searches are also possible. Library staff will be pleased to help you with your searches. You can also view the ProQuest 'Getting started with the MLA' guide.
LION - Literature Online
LION offers online searching of an extensive range of full-text literary works from all periods. It can be used for stylistic comparison, word-finding, textual analysis, as an online concordance and for simply reading texts. Full help and documentation are available both online and in the library.
Although these are the most frequently-accessed online services, there are many more available which will be of use to the English scholar:
- Arts and Humanities [Citation] Index
- Periodicals Archive Online
- EEBO - Early English Books Online
- ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- The Shakespeare Collection
Library staff are always on hand to advise, or for training on specific resources attend the efl's information and study skills training sessions.