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- 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.
- 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.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
- GVRL is a collection of online reference books on a variety of topics including Business, History, Literature, Medicine, Social Science, Technology and many more. Pages and chapters from this collection can be printed and emailed.
- JSTOR
- JSTOR is an archive of digitized journal articles ranging in date from the 1700's to the early 2000's. These collections span a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences.
- 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.
- 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 (1851-2008) Proquest Historical Newspapers
- Digital image of every issue of the New York Times from 1851-2008, 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. For pre-1980 full text coverage, see New York Times Historical.
- Novelist Plus
- An electronic readers' advisory resource which contains materials for all ages. In addition to non-fiction titles for adults and children, Novelist Plus includes picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and fiction for adult readers.
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