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 Children's Literature Comprehensive Database |
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Full text children's book reviews from board books to novels & non-fiction.  |
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Contemporary Authors |
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Biographies of authors, including novelists, playwrights and more. |
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Gale Literature Criticism Online |
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Access to full text literary criticism in sources such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Poetry Criticism & much more! |
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Humanities International Complete |
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Full text journals in language, literature, poetry & more. |
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JSTOR Language & Literature Journals |
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On the search screen, check the box next to Language & Literature to search 49 full text journals. Here's a link to the list of journals you're searching. |
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MLA Bibliography |
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Search for articles in the most comprehensive source for scholarly research in literature. Contains limited full text. See also the MLA Directory of Periodicals |
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Oxford English Dictionary |
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Find word definitions, etymologies, and quotations. |
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Project Muse Literature Journals |
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Search Project Muse journals by clicking the link above, or here's a link to the list of literature journals in Project Muse. |
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List of English journals owned by Polk Library (print and online) |
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Art & Humanities Citation Index |
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Indexes many English journals, and provides the ability to do cited-reference searching |
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Black Drama: 1850 - Present |
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Online searchable plays (over 500!) by 125 playwrights. |
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Early English Books Online |
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Full text copies of a selection of books published 1475 - 1700. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online |
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Full text searching and page images for 150,000 books published during the 18th century. |
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Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text |
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Indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, with full text for over 90 journals and 50 books. |
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International Medieval Bibliography |
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Index to articles relating to the Middle Ages (400-1500 AD). Also includes an online version of the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages. |
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Literary Reference Center |
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Covers antiquity to the present day. Over 1,000 books, literary encyclopedias and reference works, plot summaries, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. |
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LitFinder |
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Full-text poems, essays, plays, speeches, and short stories. Available to Wisconsin residents via BadgerLink |
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Points of View Reference Center |
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Essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database offers 255 topics, each with an overview, two opposing points of view, and critical thinking guide |
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Search Oxford Literature Books |
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Searchable online full text version of many useful books such as The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms & more. |
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period |
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60 full text volumes of Romantic poetry, critical reviews and more. |
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Academic Search Complete |
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Multi-topic tool with full text for nearly 4,500 journals including 3,700+ peer-reviewed journals. |
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Masterfile Premier |
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Multi-topic tool includes full text of popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, and more. |
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Lexis Nexis Academic Universe |
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Full-text news & newspapers, business, legal, medical, and reference information. |
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Oxford Reference Online - Dictionaries/Encyclopedias |
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Over 100 dictionaries (both English and foreign language), reference books on many subjects & more.
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