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- Academic Search Premier
- Academic Search Premier contains indexing and some full text for 4515 journals. This scholarly collection provides journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies.
- African American Literature, The Concise Oxford Companion To
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- Chicago Tribune (1849-1986) Proquest Historical Newspapers
- Digital image of every issue of the Chicago Tribune, cover-to-cover. Use this database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. By utilizing software enhancements, the original microfilm image can frequently be improved for a cleaner, more readable image. And the date range searching tool lets users search on, before, or between two dates.
The Chicago Tribune Historical database covers the years 1847-1985. For full text articles published between 1986-Present, use the Chicago Tribune online located on the Library's Article Databases page.
- Children's Literature
- This finding aid for children's literature offers more than 130,000 full text reviews of children's books from 24 reputable sources. Also includes entries for more than 200,000 awards, prizes, best book list and reading list entries. When you search for and find books, you will also see what awards the books have won and what lists they have made.
- Classical Literature, The Concise Oxford Companion To
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- Discovering Collection
- Comprised of several Discovering Program titles such as Discovering Authors, U.S. History, Science and Biography, and the entire contents of the Junior Reference Collection. Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.
- Essay And General Literature Index
- Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Also indexed are more than 20 annual and serial publications. Includes full bibliographic information for the titles in which the collected works are found. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature.
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Combining indexing, abstracts and full text, this database offers balanced coverage available through 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 1,400 journals are peer reviewed, and more than 20 years of backfile coverage are included.
- Literary Index
- This is an online index to the Gale Literary reference books in the Library and/or in online resources. Refer to the Literature Resource Center for full-text online resources.
- Literary Terms, The Concise Oxford Dictionary Of
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- Literature Resource Center
- Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies and criticism of authors from every age and literary discipline. 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.
- Magill OnLiterature Plus
- MagillOnLiterature is the definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. Also provides access to information on notable authors from 15 complete Salem Press sets containing a total of 62 volumes. This database has images for many well-known authors and embedded hyperlinks refer readers to related author essays.
- New York Times (1851-2004) Proquest Historical Newspapers
- Digital image of every issue of the New York Times from 1851-1999, cover-to-cover. Use this database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. By utilizing software enhancements, the original microfilm image can frequently be improved for a cleaner, more readable image. And the date range searching tool lets users search on, before, or between two dates.
- New York Times (1980-Present)
- Comprehensive digital coverage is available for this internationally renowned U.S. newspaper from 1980-present. The NYT Magazine and Book Review is covered from 1999-present.
- Novelist
- An electronic readers' advisory resource which contains materials for all ages including picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. Many full-text reviews of adult fiction are added frequently.
- Periodical Abstracts (PerAbs)
- A complete general reference resource, with indexing and abstracts for popular and academic periodicals. Included are transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.
- Shakespeare, A Dictionary Of
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- Shakespeare, The Oxford Companion To
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- Theatre In Video
- This resource contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays written, directed and performed by the world's definitive artists. Also included are the BBC's award-winning productions of Shakespeare's plays.
- Twentieth-Century Poetry In English, The Oxford Companion To
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- Writers And Their Works, A Dictionary Of
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