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Literature Related
Databases
| Gale
Literary Databases: Gale
Literary Database is a cross searchable database of three databases:
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary of
Literary Biography. Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical
and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and
international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select collects
more than 35,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with
biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information.
Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical
and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential
literary figures from all eras and genres. |
| JSTOR:
Journal
Collection - full text - 100's of titles and increasing; generally
providing a back run from the journal's inception, period varies from
six months up to five years from the present. |
| LION
- Literature Online: A
fully searchable library of English and American poetry, drama, and
prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and key secondary sources. |
| Literature
Criticism Online: Literature
Criticism Online is comprised of ten individual Gale series that
represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their
works across regions, eras and genres. LCO features biographical and
bibliographical information on 20th century and contemporary literary
figures (novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and
literary theorists), and scholarly and popular commentary from books,
journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers. |
| Literature
Resource Center: The
world's most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature
database. Uniquely relevant to today's curriculum, the resource's rich
critical, biographical and contextual materials support
interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development
of critical thinking skills. Researchers will find the information they
need on authors and their works, from all time periods and from around
the world. |
| Literature
Resources from Gale: Provides a one-stop, intuitive
cross-searching environment for any combination of the proven products
within the collection. |
| LitFinder:
Gale's
core repository of full-text literature, LitFinder spans history and
geography to offer more than 135,000 poems, short stories, essays,
speeches and plays from more than 80,000 authors. |
| Oxford
English Dictionary (OED) Online: Traces the usage of words
(etymology), meaning, and pronunciation. |
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