| Gale Literature | Good starting place. Contains biographies, criticism, story overviews, bibliographies and more. |
| Gale Ebooks | Allows you to search and find articles across a collection of subject specific encyclopedias. |
| Academic Search Complete | A solid, multidisciplinary database that makes a good a starting point for researching many issues, though it doesn't focus on literary criticism. |
| JSTOR | Scholarly journal articles covering many topics suitable for students with good reading abilities. |
| Project Muse | Covers gender studies and the arts very well. Articles come from scholarly journals. |
| SocIndex with Full Text | Scholarly articles from journals related to sociology and related fields of study. |
| APA PsychArticles | Scholarly journal articles dealing with psychology and related fields of study. |