Use this guide to discover useful resources for conducting research in your subject area.
The University of Sussex's Library Search is a good starting point, as it spans all subjects and searches the university's collections and subscriptions. However, to be more comprehensive in your research, you’ll need to use other resources, databases and collections.
The best place to search will depend on what types of sources you’re looking for, your research topic, and where you are in your research process.
The resources listed on this guide are useful for English. This page lists some of the most used research databases in this field.
The other pages of this guide list even more resources which are useful for English Research, including subject-specific dictionaries, corpora, and archives of historical texts.
A comprehensive literary database offering over 500,000 primary texts, including poetry, prose, and drama by influential and lesser-known authors from around the world. It features contemporary and historical criticism, reference works, full-text journals, ebooks, dissertations, and multimedia resources like performances and author interviews. Explore global literature through curated collections, engaging with diverse perspectives and voices. With content spanning traditional and emerging areas of literary studies.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.