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Version 12.1
January 2012
Criticism and Reference Resources
51 volumes from the Companions to Literature series (Cambridge University Press); 25 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 11.9
December 2011
Criticism and Reference Resources
70 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 11.8
November 2011
Criticism and Reference Resources
New and updated reference resources added: Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Concise Oxford English Dictionary (12th Edition).
3 new full-text journals added: Field, Flannery O'Connor Review, The New Criterion; 15 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 11.7
September 2011
Criticism and Reference Resources
4 new full-text journals added: Arthur Miller Journal, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Foundation, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre; 53 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 11.6
August 2011
Primary Texts
| Penguin Classics | 390 volumes; 1,283 works plus associated Penguin Classics Introductions |
Criticism and Reference Resources
7 new reference works added: The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature, Third Edition, Handbook of African American Literature, Encyclopedia of African Literature, Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003, Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory and Encyclopedia of Linguistics.
4 new full-text journals added: Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies, Chinese Literature Today, Thomas Hardy Yearbook, New Zealand Journal of French Studies; 76 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 11.5
June 2011
Criticism and Reference Resources
3 new full-text journals added: Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Shakespeare Bulletin, the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review; 1 title change: NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association changed to Feminist Formations; 54 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 11.4
April 2011
Criticism and Reference Resources
2 new full-text journals added: J Journal, Studies in Literature and Language; 27 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 11.3
March 2011
Criticism and Reference Resources
40 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 11.2
February 2011
Criticism and Reference Resources
2 new full-text journals added: 580 Split, The Journal of Browning Studies; 30 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 11.1
January 2011
Criticism and Reference Resources
36 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 10.9
December 2010
Criticism and Reference Resources
6 new full-text journals added: Book History, Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiens, Eudora Welty Review, Fantasy Commentator, Mythlore, JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature; 58 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 10.8
November 2010
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | twelfth and final release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Multimedia Content
922 Poetry Archive links added
Criticism and Reference Resources
5 new full-text journals added: DQR Studies in Literature, European Studies, Nature, Culture and Literature, Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, Themes in Theatre; 44 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 10.7
September 2010
Criticism and Reference Resources
5 new full-text journals added: Critical Studies, French Literature Series, International Ford Madox Ford Studies, Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication; 13 journals removed due to publisher's agreement change: American Literary History, British Journals of Aesthetics, Cambridge Quarterly, Forum for Modern Language Studies, International Journal of Lexicography, Journal of Semantics, Library, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Literature & Theology, Notes and Queries, Review of English Studies, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Year's Work in English Studies; 57 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 10.6
August 2010
Criticism and Reference Resources
6 new full-text journals added: Bunyan Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, European Comic Art, Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui, Samuel Beckett Today, The Byron Journal; 100 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 10.5
June 2010
Multimedia Content
38 Shakespeare Audio Plays
Criticism and Reference Resources
5 full-text journals added: Australian Humanities Review, British Journal of Canadian Studies, HJEAS: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, International Journal of English Studies and Studies in the Humanities; Second Edition of Routledge Encylopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English added; 42 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 10.4
April 2010
Criticism and Reference Resources
40 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 10.3
March 2010
Criticism and Reference Resources
23 full-text journals added: African Studies Review, American Journal of Philology, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Antigonish Review, Arcadia, Bookbird, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Canadian Women’s Studies, Classical Quarterly, Critical Matrix, Daphnis, French Forum, Journal of American Culture, Neophilologus, Phoenix: The Journal of the Classics Association of Canada, Ploughshares, Resources for Feminist Research, River Teeth, Romanic Review, TheatreForum, Western Journal of Black Studies, Zeitschrift für Deutsches Alterthum und Deutsche Litteratur, Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik; 35 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 10.2
February 2010
Criticism and Reference Resources
24 full-text journals added: African Arts, Afro-Hispanic Review, American Theatre, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Antichthon, Australian Journal of French Studies, Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingue, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Chasqui, Classical Bulletin, Classical Review, Etudes Anglaises, Fabula, Feminist Review, Greece and Rome, Journal of Canadian Studies, Journal of Folklore Research, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Poets & Writers, Queen’s Quarterly, Revue de Litterature Comparee, Revue de Philologie, de Litterature et d’Histoire Anciennes, Transactions of the American Philological Association and Women’s Studies Quarterly; 40 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Functionality Enhancements
COUNTER III compliant statistics for Journals added.
Version 10.1
January 2010
Criticism and Reference Resources
5 full-text journals added: Romance Quarterly, Italian Culture, South Central Review, Contagion and Partial Answers; 37 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 09.9
December 2009
Criticism and Reference Resources
1 full-text journal added: Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History; 39 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 09.8
November 2009
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition | fifth and final release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| African Writers Series | eighth and final release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Criticism and Reference Resources
8 full-text journals added: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Margaret Atwood Studies, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, Studies in the Fantastic, Old English Newsletter, CR: The New Centennial Review, Fourth Genre and Red Cedar Review; 70 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 09.7
September 2009
Criticism and Reference Resources
8 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 09.6
August 2009
Criticism and Reference Resources
8 full-text journals added: European Joyce Studies, George Eliot Review, Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Tampa Review, Thomas Hardy Journal, Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, The Wyndham Lewis Annual; 56 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 09.5
June 2009
Criticism and Reference Resources
3 full-text journals added: Carlyle Studies Journal, Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, Tolstoy Studies Journal; 5 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 09.4
May 2009
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | eleventh release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition | fourth release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Criticism and Reference Resources
4 full-text journals added: The Beckett Circle, Wallace Stevens Journal, Cithara: Essays in the Judeo-Christian Tradition and Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America ; 5 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Functionality Enhancements
COUNTER-compliant statistics for Books and Reference Works added.
Version 09.3
March 2009
Criticism and Reference Resources
1 full-text journal added: Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate; 41 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 09.2
February 2009
Criticism and Reference Resources
43 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 09.1
January 2009
Criticism and Reference Resources
5 full-text journals added: The Comparatist, New Coin, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Theory & Event and William Carlos Williams Review; 15 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 08.9
December 2008
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | tenth release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition | third release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Criticism and Reference Resources
71 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 08.8
November 2008
Criticism and Reference Resources
4 full-text journals added: AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, The Germanic Review, The Midwest Quarterly and Southwest Review; 85 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 08.7
September 2008
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | ninth release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| African Writers Series | seventh release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition | second release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| Poetry, Prose and Drama volumes | 41 new volumes added |
Poets on Screen
Sixth instalment (58 clips)
Criticism and Reference Resources
41 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Functionality Enhancements
Bibliographies made searchable, improvements to RIS format full-text citations, MLA International Bibliography Publisher Abstracts field separately searchable
Version 08.6
August 2008
Criticism and Reference Resources
15 full-text journals added: Anglo-Saxon England, English Language and Linguistics, English Today, Journal of American Studies, Journal of Linguistics, Language in Society, Language Variation and Change, New Theatre Quarterly (NTQ), Victorian Literature and Culture, Theatre Survey, Theatre Research International, Literary and Linguistic Computing: Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Et Cetera, International Journal of Lexicography and Journal of Semantics: An International Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Semantics of Natural Language; 131 new and revised biographies, updates to full-text journals.
Version 08.5
June 2008
Criticism and Reference Resources
1 full-text journal added: English in Africa; updates to full-text journals.
Version 08.4
May 2008
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition | first release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Criticism and Reference Resources
4 full-text journals added: Conradian, John Clare Society Journal, Langston Hughes Review and The Year's Work in English; 47 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 08.3
March 2008
Criticism and Reference Resources
27 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 08.2
February 2008
Criticism and Reference Resources
39 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 08.1
January 2008
Criticism and Reference Resources
25 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 07.9
December 2007
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | eighth release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| African Writers Series | sixth release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| Faber and Faber volumes | 46 new volumes |
Criticism and Reference Resources
101 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Functionality Enhancements
Cross-searching from Oxford Reference Online, Variant spellings and variant forms search functionality, new images and footnotes display methods, print view added to full-text, full records and Author pages, enhancements to full-text journal table of contents
Version 07.8
November 2007
Criticism and Reference Resources
22 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 07.7
September 2007
Criticism and Reference Resources
6 full-text journals added: Browning Society News, New Formations, George Herbert Journal, Fifteenth-Century Studies, Goethe Yearbook and Renaissance Drama; 25 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 07.6
August 2007
Criticism and Reference Resources
3 full-text journals added: Wordsworth Circle, Journal of West Indian Literature and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research; 60 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 07.5
June 2007
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | seventh release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| African Writers Series | fifth release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Criticism and Reference Resources
3 full-text journals added: Boston Review, Atlanta Review and Carolina Quarterly; 30 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals; extended JSTOR linking; Project Muse user edit option added.
Functionality Enhancements
Subscription options added to Home Page; Reference Shelf added to Home Page; Safari browser now supported; RSS feeds available.
Version 07.4
May 2007
Criticism and Reference Resources
1 full-text journal added: The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographic Society; 31 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 07.3
March 2007
Criticism and Reference Resources
2 full-text journals added: Journal of Narrative Theory and The Baker Street Journal: An Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana; 55 new and revised bibliographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 07.2
February 2007
Criticism and Reference Resources
115 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 07.1
January 2007
Criticism and Reference Resources
Updates to full-text journals.
Version 06.9
December 2006
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | sixth release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| African Writers Series | fourth release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Criticism and Reference Resources
2 full-text journals added: English Studies in Canada and Textual Cultures; new and revised biographies and bibliographies.
Functionality Enhancements
Tenth Birthday Edition: linking to Oxford Reference Online; enriched indexing in Quick Search; display of advanced options and genre search in Search Texts.
Version 06.8
November 2006
Criticism and Reference Resources
151 new and revised biographies; new ABELL volume published; updates to full-text journals.
Version 06.7
September 2006
Criticism and Reference Resources
62 new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Version 06.6
August 2006
Criticism and Reference Resources
10 full-text journals added: Antipodes, B. Ma, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Eighteenth Century, Intertexts, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Philip Roth Studies, Storytelling, Theatre Notebook and Victorian Poetry; 61 new and revised biographies.
Version 06.5
June 2006
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | fifth release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| African Writers Series | third release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Quarto and Cambridge editions of Shakespeare added to Literature Online.
Criticism and Reference Resources
2 full-text journals added: Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism and Pedagogy and The Seventeenth Century; new and revised biographies; extended JSTOR linking.
Functionality Enhancements
New and improved Bibliography of American Literature upgrade released; module content usage broken out in usage statistics; addition of 'Previous record' and 'Next record' links to Criticism records.
Version 06.4
May 2006
Criticism and Reference Resources
MLAIB backfile records added for 1926 to 1962; new and revised biographies.
Version 06.3
March 2006
Criticism and Reference Resources
5 full-text journals added: Clues, College Composition and Communication, Comparative Drama, Discourse and Theatre Studies; updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies.
Version 06.2
February 2006
Criticism and Reference Resources
Updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies.
Functionality Enhancements
Enhancements to MLAIB thesaurus browse lists.
Version 06.1
January 2006
Criticism and Reference Resources
Updates to full-text journals.
Version 05.9
December 2005
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | fourth release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| African Writers Series | second release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Criticism and Reference Resources
Updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies.
Functionality Enhancements
Enhancements to ABELL records, including addition of ISBN and ISSN fields.
Version 05.8
November 2005
Criticism and Reference Resources
1 full-text journal added: Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film; updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies.
Functionality Enhancements
Firefox support; marked list selection improvement.
Version 05.7
September 2005
Criticism and Reference Resources
6 full-text journals added: Critical Inquiry, Daedalus, Hudson Review, Journal of British Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Signs; updates to full-text journals.
Version 05.6
August 2005
Criticism and Reference Resources
8 full-text journals added: Arthuriana, Australasian Drama Studies, Christianity and Literature, Conradiana, Gothic Studies, Journal of New Zealand Literature, Literature and History and Marvels & Tales; new biographies and updates to full-text journals.
Version 05.5
July 2005
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | third release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
| African Writers Series | first release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Criticism and Reference Resources
New and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Functionality Enhancements
Cross-search with EEBO; 'one-click' Marked List and direct export of citations; A-Z browse added to Author Index; modifications to Complete Contents.
Version 05.4
June 2005
Criticism and Reference Resources
6 full-text journals added: Caribbean Quarterly, Indiana Review, Language and Literature, Minnesota Review, Seventeenth-Century News and Yeats-Eliot Review; new biographies and updates to full-text journals.
Version 05.3
May 2005
Criticism and Reference Resources
1 full-text journal added: Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory; one new biography; updates to full-text journals.
Version 05.2
April 2005
Primary Texts
| American Drama 1714–1915 | fourth and final release of data |
| Early American Fiction 1789–1875 | third and final release of data |
| Canadian Poetry | third and final release of data |
Criticism and Reference Resources
3 full-text journals added: College English, Teaching English in the Two-Year College and Theatre Survey; new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals.
Functionality enhancements
Z39.50 compliance; modifications to MLAIB Search page; new 'Search within this journal' feature.
Version 05.1
February 2005
Criticism and Reference Resources
| MLA International Bibliography | Launch of premium module within Literature Online (only available to premium subscribers) |
3 full-text journals added: American Indian Quarterly, American Journal of Semiotics and Studies in American Indian Literature; new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals; new web sites.
Functionality enhancements
Outbound and inbound OpenURL linking enabled; integration of MLA International Bibliography; new ABELL search page in Search: Criticism.
Version 04.8
December 2004
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | Second release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Poets on Screen
Fifth instalment (173 clips)
Criticism and Reference Resources
11 full-text journals added: Arizona Quarterly: a journal of American literature, culture and theory, Film Quarterly, Harvard Review, Huntington Library Quarterly, Law and Literature, Representations, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetorica, Symploke, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire and Legacy; new and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals; new web sites.
Functionality Enhancements
Integration of Poets on Screen.
Version 04.7
September 2004
Criticism and Reference Resources
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | Volume 78 (2003) final release |
New and revised biographies; updates to full-text journals; new web sites.
Version 04.6
August 2004
Criticism and Reference Resources
5 full-text journals added: American Drama, Hotel Amerika, Shakespeare Quarterly, Southern Quarterly and Texas Studies in Language and Literature; updates to full-text journals; revised Debrett's biographies; new web sites.
Version 04.5
July 2004
Criticism and Reference Resources
Updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies; new web sites.
Version 04.4
June 2004
Criticism and Reference Resources
3 full-text journals added: Forum for Modern Language Studies, Literature & Theology: an interdisciplinary journal of theory and criticism, and Renaissance Studies: journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies; updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies; new web sites.
Version 04.3
May 2004
Criticism and Reference Resources
4 full-text journals added: American Literary History, Cambridge Quarterly, Notes and Queries and Review of English Studies; updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies, 1 new bibliography and new web sites.
Functionality Enhancements
Compatibility with reference manager software; MARC records for Criticism and Reference content and Poets on Screen added; Level One COUNTER-compliant usage statistics; display of availability and coverage added to Full-Text Journals Table of Contents.
Version 04.2
March 2004
Poets on Screen
Fourth instalment (361 clips)
Criticism and Reference Resources
1 full-text journal added: Theatre Topics; updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies and new web sites.
Version 04.1
January 2004
Literature Online, Third Edition
Complete re-design and re-engineering of Literature Online. New features added, including Quick Search, Complete Contents, Author Index, OpenURL bookmarking, My Archive, Marked List, Literary Works in Journals, typographical variant searching, genre indexing of poetry, and expanded Information Centre, including customisation options within the Librarians' Administration Resources. King James Bible added to both Reference Shelf and Prose database. Launch of the first premium module, Twentieth-Century Drama.
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century Drama | First release of data (only available to premium subscribers) |
Criticism and Reference Resources
3 full-text journals added: American Quarterly, MLN and British Journal of Aesthetics; updates to full-text journals; new web sites and revisions to biographies.
Version 03.8
October 2003
Criticism and Reference Resources
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | Volume 77 (2002) final release |
Version 03.7
September 2003
| American Drama | third release of data |
Criticism and Reference Resources
3 full-text journals added: Configurations: a Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology, Journal of the History of Ideas and Lion and the Unicorn: a Critical Journal of Children's Literature; updates to full-text journals; new biographies and new web sites
Version 03.6
August 2003
Criticism and Reference Resources
Updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies including 350 Debrett's biographies and new web sites
Version 03.5
July 2003
Poets on Screen
Third instalment (183 clips)
Criticism and Reference Resources
15 full-text journals added: American Imago, American Jewish History, Callaloo, Diacritics, ELH, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Emily Dickinson Journal, Henry James Review, Literature and Medicine, Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/Modernity, New Literary History, Philosophy and Literature Theatre Journal, Yale Journal of Criticism ; updates to other full-text journals; new biographies and new web sites
Functionality Enhancements
Additional MARC records linking to volume level
Version 03.4
May 2003
Criticism and Reference Resources
Updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies and new web sites
Version 03.3
April 2003
Primary Texts
| Early American Fiction 1789-1875 | second release of data |
Criticism and Reference Resources
Updates to full-text journals; 1 new biography and new web sites
Functionality Enhancements
MARC records linking to volume level
Version 03.2
March 2003
Criticism and Reference Resources
Updates to full-text journals; new and revised biographies and new web sites
Functionality Enhancements
Bracket functionality added to Boolean searching
Version 03.1
February 2003
Criticism and Reference Resources
One full-text journal added: Nabokov Studies; updates to other full-text journals; new and revised biographies and new web sites
Version 02.9
December 2002
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | Volume 76 (2001) final release |
Functionality Enhancements
JSTOR linking from ABELL records; combined Author/Subject search added to Search Criticism and Reference page; new resources pages for students, administrators, teachers and researchers
Criticism and Reference Resources
One full-text journal added: Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History; updates to other full-text journals; new and revised biographies and new web sites
Version 02.8
November 2002
Primary Texts
| Early American Fiction 1789-1875 | first release of data |
810 full-text literary essays added
Functionality Enhancements
Scope notes for Ethnicity, Nationality and Literary Period indexing in Find Authors and Search Texts
Criticism and Reference Resources
Updates to full-text journals, new and revised biographies and new web sites
Version 02.7
October 2002
Criticism and Reference Resources
10 new full-text journals: Asian Theater Journal, Bucknell Review, Chicago Review, English Studies in Africa: A Journal of the Humanities, Faulkner Journal, Folklore, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Journal of American Folklore, NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women's Studies Association and Western Folklore; updates to other full-text journals; new and revised biographies and new web sites
Version 02.6
September 2002
Poets on Screen
Second instalment (16 clips)
Functionality Enhancements
Emailing reference works and biographies; 695 new authors added to Find Authors; KnowledgeNotes student guides added to Search Criticism and Reference
Criticism and Reference Resources
19 new full-text journals: American Poetry Review, American Transcendental Quarterly, Black Scholar, Contemporary Review, Feminist Studies, History and Memory, Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Journal of Popular Culture, New England Quarterly, Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada, Research in African Literatures, Scandinavian Review, Shakespeare Studies, Small Axe, Studies in Philology, Victorian Studies, World Literature Today and Writing; updates to other full-text journals; new and revised biographies and new web sites
Version 02.5
August 2002
Functionality Enhancements
Separate User Statistics for Individual Literature Collections; more than 900 new authors added to Find Authors
Criticism and Reference Resources
Three new full-text journals: Commonweal, Differences and Scandanavian Studies; updates to other full-text journals, new and revised biographies and new web sites
Version 02.4
July 2002
Functionality Enhancements
Variant and alternative author name searching; more than 900 new authors added to Find Authors
Criticism and Reference Resources
New full-text journal articles, biographies and web sites
Version 02.3
June 2002
Primary Texts
| Canadian Poetry | second release of data |
Functionality Enhancements
Enhanced Web Sites Keyword search
Criticism and Reference Resources
Shakespeare Glossary added to Dictionaries search; new full-text journal articles, biographies and web sites; 2,000 new authors added to Find Authors
Getting Started with Literature Online
Addition of this new interactive site demo
Poets on Screen
First instalment (70 clips)
Version 02.2
April 2002
Functionality Enhancements
Author Record pages; additional fields on Web Sites search screen in Criticism and Reference
Criticism and Reference Resources
New full-text journal articles, biographies and web sites.
Version 02.1
February 2002
Functionality Enhancements
Static navigation toolbar
Criticism and Reference Resources
New full-text journal articles, biographies, KnowledgeNotes student guides and web sites; 800 authors added to Find Authors.
Version 01.9
December 2001
Primary Texts
| Canadian Poetry | first release of data |
Criticism and Reference Resources
Four new full-text journals: Criticism, Style, Tri-Quarterly and Studies in the Literary Imagination; additional full-text journal articles, new biographies, new KnowledgeNotes student guides, full-text journal articles and web sites.
Version 01.8
October 2001
KnowledgeNotes Student Guides
First release of this new collection of student guides.
Criticism and Reference Resources
Two new full-text journals: Massachusetts Review and Studies in the Literary Imagination; new biographies, bibliographic records, full-text journal articles and web sites.
Version 01.7
August 2001
Criticism and Reference Resources
Four new full-text journals: African American Review, Parnassus, Literature & Psychology and Michigan Quarterly Review; new biographies, bibliographic records, full-text journal articles and web sites.
Version 01.6
July 2001
Criticism and Reference Resources
New biographies, bibliographic records and full-text journal articles
Version 01.5
June 2001
Primary Texts
| English Poetry, Second Edition | second release of data |
Criticism and Reference Resources
| Reference Works | The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 1994); The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (Columbia University Press, 2001); The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (Columbia University Press, 1980) |
New biographies, bibliographic records, full-text journal articles and web sites
Version 01.4
May 2001
Criticism and Reference Resources
New biographies, bibliographic records, full-text journal articles and web sites
Version 01.3
April 2001
Functionality Enhancements
Emailing the full text of journal articles
Criticism and Reference Resources
New biographies, bibliographic records, full-text journal articles and web sites
Version 01.2
March 2001
Criticism and Reference Resources
New biographies, bibliographic records, full-text journal articles and web sites
Version 01.1
February 2001
Primary Texts
| English Poetry, Second Edition | first release of data |
Version 00.10
December 2000
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century English Poetry | third and final release of data |
| Early American Fiction | third and final release of data |
| The Faber Poetry Library | update to data |
| American Drama | second release of data |
Secondary Works and Other Resources
Major reconstruction of secondary content: addition of the full text of 29 more journals to ABELL; addition of new full-text reference works; expansion of our database of external Web sites; development of a unique thesaurus to aid searching.
Version 00.9
September 2000
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century English Poetry | second release of data |
| The Faber Poetry Library | update to data |
Version 00.8
August 2000
Secondary Works and Other Resources
Version 00.7
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
July 2000
Primary Texts
| Nineteenth Century Fiction | second release of data |
| American Drama | update to data |
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
Version 00.6
June 2000
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | interim release of 1998/99 records |
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
Version 00.5
May 2000
Primary Texts
| 20th Century English Poetry | first release of data |
| Database of Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry | second and final release of data |
| Early American Fiction | second release of data |
| Twentieth-Century American Poetry | third and final release of data |
| The Faber Poetry Library | third release of data |
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
Version 00.4
April 2000
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
Version 00.3
March 2000
Primary Texts
| American Drama | first release of data |
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
Version 00.2
February 2000
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
Version 00.1
January 2000
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
Version 99.9
December 1999
Primary Texts
| The Faber Poetry Library | second release of data |
Version 99.8
November 1999
Primary Texts
| Early American Fiction | first release of data |
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | full release of 1997 records |
Version 99.7
October 1999
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
Version 99.6
September 1999
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
Version 99.5
September 1999
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | update to LIFT data |
Version 99.4
August 1999
Primary Texts
| Nineteenth-Century Fiction | first release of data |
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Literary Journals Index Full Text | access to the full text of 30 journals |
Version 99.3
May 1999
Major restructuring of Literature Online. Organisation of the primary texts by literary form - poetry, drama and prose. Addition and integration of more secondary content, enabling searching for works by and about an author. Several new search features. New metadata to enable richer searching. Addition of more primary texts, especially twentieth-century poetry.
Organisation of Literature Online into three core subscription options: Literature Online Complete Collection, Literature Online Poetry Collection and Literature Online English Corpus (please note that English Corpus is no longer available; see Subscription Options. Incorporation of key secondary resources into these subscription options. Institutions may subscribe to individual literature collections such as The Bible in English in addition to the three core collections.
Version 99.2
March 1999
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | first release of 1997 records |
Version 99.1
February 1999
Primary Texts
| The W. B. Yeats Collection | new collection |
Version 98.6
December 1998
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | full release of 1996 records |
Version 98.5
November 1998
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century American Poetry | second release of the database |
Version 98.4
October 1998
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry | first release comprising 5,402 poems |
Version 98.3
June 1998
Primary Texts
| English Poetry | additional poetry included |
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | addition of volumes 1920-1996; standardisation of all subject classifications to conform to current practice; standardisation of periodical references to conform to current practice; Cyrillic texts in early volumes transcribed to conform to current practice |
Version 98.2
May 1998
Primary Texts
| Nineteenth-Century Fiction | first release comprising 15 novels by Charles Dickens |
Version 98.1
March 1998
Primary Texts
| Twentieth-Century American Poetry | first release of a new database of twentieth-century American poetry |
| Modern Poetry | second release |
Version 97.3
October 1997
Primary Texts
| Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare | 11 complete editions of the works of Shakespeare, from the First Folio to the nineteenth-century Cambridge edition |
| English Drama | additional works of English prose drama, taking the total to 1,600 |
| Modern Poetry | first release of a new database of twentieth-century English poetry including poets published by Carcanet and Oxford University Press |
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | addition of volumes 1960-1994; standardisation of author names in subject classifications |
| Periodicals Contents Index: Literature | addition of 200 journals |
| Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia | new resource added |
| Cambridge Encyclopedia | new resource added |
Version 97.2
June 1997
Primary Texts
| The Bible in English | 20 versions of the English Bible, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the twentieth century |
| Early English Prose Fiction | 211 works of English prose from the period 1500 to 1700 |
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | addition of volumes 1980-1994 |
Version 97.1
March 1997
Secondary Works and Other Resources
| Periodicals Contents Index: Literature | new database added |
Version 96.1
December 1996
This was the launch version of Literature Online which included the contents listed below, each as a discrete database. No major changes in the structure of the site nor in functionality were introduced until Version 99.3.
Primary Texts
| African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 | 2,928 poems |
| American Poetry | 40,368 poems from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century |
| Eighteenth-Century Fiction | 77 works of English prose fiction from the period 1700 to 1780 |
| English Drama | 2,200 works of English verse drama from the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and 800 works of English prose drama from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century |
| English Poetry | More than 150,000 poems by writers of the British Isles from the period 600 to 1900 |
Secondary Works and Other Resources
Bibliography of American Literature
King James Bible - 'Authorised' Version
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
Index to Web sites in English and American literature (regularly
reviewed and updated)
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