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LITERATURE DATABASE TUTORIAL -- New! Take a look!

LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER -- Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

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MAGILLONLITERATURE PLUS -- Literary database including literary works, reviewed critical analyses, brief plot summaries, biographies, and author essays.

MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Provides access to bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.

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Major 21st-Century Writers -- Source of detailed biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on the most influential authors studied at the turn of the 21st century. More than one thousand entries on the most widely known writers are included.

MERLOT Language and Literature -- Merlot is a collection of databases that have been created to be used by students. The sites have been reviewed and can supplement your assignments.

PROJECT MUSE -- One of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources; covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others.

HUMANITIES INTERNATIONAL COMPLETE -- Index, abstracts, and full text for journals, books and other resources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing, it includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full text content.

ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE -- Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. It includes indexing, abstracts, and full text for scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.

MASTERFILE PREMIER -- Multidisciplinary database providing full text for general reference publications covering subject areas of general interest. It includes full text from reference books, biographies, and primary source documents, as well as an image collection of photos, maps and flags.

NEWSPAPER SOURCE PLUS -- Full text for regional and national newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, and newspaper columns. This database also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts.

ASSOCIATES PROGRAM SOURCE -- This database, designed for junior & community colleges, focuses on degrees and certification programs including: accounting, agricultural sciences, child care services, cosmetology, culinary arts, forestry, food service management, graphic arts, hair dressing, hospitality management, interior design, journalism, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, veterinary technology and welding.

AMERICAN POETRY -- Gathers the works of influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century; includes 40,356 poems from works by 209 poets, along with anthologies of American poetry.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY, 1760-1900 -- a collection of over 2,500 poems, based on William French's bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and Drama 1760-1975.

ENGLISH POETRY -- Contains poems in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the nineteenth century by writers from the British Isles.

ENGLISH VERSE DRAMA -- Contains works by named and anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century through the unparalleled output of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the nineteenth century.

OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY -- Contains the entire text of the 22-volume Oxford English Dictionary, including definitions for most words in the English language and information on origins and quotations.

WOMEN’S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL -- Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. This database supports research in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.

FUENTE ACADEMICA (in Spanish) -- Provides full text for scholarly Spanish language journals in academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.


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