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Databases - Literature

Academic Search Premier (Ebscohost):
Contains full-text for over 3,280 scholarly publications in areas such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

America: History and Life:
Indexes and abstracts more than 2100 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. Books and dissertations are included.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online:
Contains over 13,000 poems in full text and 250,000 poetry citations, in addition to commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, notes on form and a glossary of prosodic terms. You are also able to search by author category (Asian-American, Irish, Polish etc.)

Literature Resource Center:
A literature reference database designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student as well as the sophisticated casual user. Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, with information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

MLA International Bibliography:
Indexes 3,000 English language and foreign periodicals as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations. Its subject matter includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Reviews of literary and scholarly works are not included. MLA does not provide abstracts.

Project Muse
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

The Twayne Authors Series:
Contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters Books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.


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