Literature Databases
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| Biography Resource Center | This database combines award-winning biographies from respected sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who®, find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people. |
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| Choice Reviews Online | Search for reviews of books and electronic resources from 1988 onward. | On
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| Contemporary Literary Criticism | Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study. |
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| Essay Finder | Essay Finder is a unique database of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama. |
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| JSTOR | JSTOR is an online archive of full-text scholarly articles in the humanities and social sciences. Although it does not include the most current issues of journals, this is a reliable resource for academic articles in the fields of history, ethnic studies, political science and more. | On-Campus
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| Lit Finder | Poem Finder, Essay Finder, and Story Finder |
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| Literary Reference Center |
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works. |
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| Novelist | NoveList allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest, or to look for books by entering descriptive terms that appear in subject headings, reviews, and other fields. Users can learn more about books and authors through Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, etc. |
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| Poem Finder |
Poem Finder is the largest, most comprehensive and most current poetry database available. It is international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present. It is a one-stop resource for locating over 4 1/2 million lines of poetry, and over 100,000 full-text poems. |
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| Story Finder | Story Finder provides thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. The database will be updated constantly with classic and contemporary stories. |
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| WorldCat | Extensive catalog of bibliographic records for books and other materials in libraries worldwide. |
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