The Literature Online database contains the electronic full texts of over 350,000 works of English and American literature (prose, poetry, drama).
It also provides access to:
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920- (ABELL): next to the MLA the most important bibliographic database of English language and literature
- Journals in electronic full text: approx. 430 journals in literature and cultural studies
- 27 literary reference works
- New Essays on the American Novel: the 38 volumes of the Cambridge University Press series
- Cambridge Companions to Literature: over 300 volumes of this Cambridge University Press series
- KnowledgeNotes: Short introductions to 230 works of world literature
- Poets on Screen: about 900 video clips of authors reading their own poems or the other poets
- Shakespeare Audio Plays: unabridged radio play versions of all 38 plays by Shakespeare
- about 6,300 author biographies and 1,550 author bibliographies