Literature

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Book Review Digest Retrospective 1903-1982
Indexes reviews from approx. 90 US and British periodicals. Indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and some full text reviews from 1903-1982.

Book Review Digest Plus 1983-
Indexes and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction.

Provides full text browseable and searchable online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects.

Columbia Granger’s contains 250,000 poems in full-text and 450,000 citations. This features poems in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Latin. The complete works of several great poets, including Shelley, Keats, Poe, & Blake, are also available through this database. There are also numerous commentaries on individual poems that places the poem in historical context.

  
Credo Reference offers over 575 titles from more than 80 of the best reference publishers. This database contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, a crossword solver, and measurement conversions. Categories for searching range from Art to History, to Literature and Science.

This resource outlines the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarizes the critical response to their work; each entry contains personal information, a list of principal works, and further readings about the author.

Informé provides full-text access to over 420 popular Spanish-language magazines that range from current events to academic studies. All of the annotations are in English to assist the user and there is also a Spanish thesaurus.

JSTOR is a collection of over 1,300 academic journals ranging from the sciences, humanities, and the social sciences, and offers peer-reviewed scholarly research. This database also includes current issues for more than 150 journals. JSTOR maintains a moving window of archived material that averages 3 to 5 years.

Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive resource in all aspects of literature. This database contains more than 159,000 author biographies, nearly 100,000 articles and essays of literary criticism, 450 literary journals, and more than 632,000 book reviews. Also included are classic & contemporary short stories, author interviews, classic books, and biographies.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) offers almost 4.5 million words, phrases, and translations in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.  This database also features native speaker audio, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, writing and word games, notes on life and culture, and usage tools and resources.

This database lets the user search over 320 Oxford University Press reference books at the same time. There is a wide range of titles that focus on art, history, law, religion, science, and the social sciences.

Project Muse is a collection of over 730 full-text scholarly journals. The coverage in Muse is current, from five to ten years, and has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings. Subjects range from Art to History, and from Music to Science.

  
WorldCat is a global network of more than 10,000 libraries that unite their collections into one master catalog. WorldCat is searchable by format, author, title, and subject.