Essential Research Tools
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Provided by Gale's InfoTrac. |
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Literary Reference Center
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 and is an essential resource for academic libraries. Provided by EBSCO. |
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LitFinder
Access to poems, short stories, plays, speeches, essays, and biographies of literary figures. |
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MLA International Bibliography
Indexes journals in the fields of literature, linguistics, and folklore from 1963 to the present date. Provided by EBSCO |
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Academic Search Premier
Large, scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. Provides access to over 584 journals in the English field. Provided by EBSCO. |
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Bowker's Books in Print
Bibliographic information about more than 2 million books and lisitngs for more than 100,000 publishers. Includes book reviews and the Fiction Connection, a reader's advisory section. Also contains databases of book awards and author biographies. |
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Fiction Connection
Reader's advisory. "Allows readers to find books they will enjoy by typing in a title of a book they already love or to browse book titles by selecting a topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe." |
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Iter
Iter is an index that provides citations for books, journal articles, and other materials for the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). One of its components is the Milton Bibliography which "tries to bring together all manuscripts and editions of John Milton's works and all studies and critical statements concerning his life and works, all allusions and quotations, and all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799."
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JSTOR
Access to more than 100 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, 13 in the field of language and literature. All full text. |
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New York Times
Full text articles, 1995-present. Provided by ProQuest
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ProjectMUSE
Access to 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. All full text. |
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