Reference & Background
Reference & Background
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Gale Literature Criticism Online
Full text access to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children's Literature ReviewAccess to full text literary criticism in sources such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Poetry Criticism, and many more. -
Contemporary Authors
A bio-biographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the US and around the world.Biographies of authors, including novelists, playwrights and more. -
Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 31,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, more than 156,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), more than 440 literary journals, more than 620,000 book reviews, more than 68,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 18,000 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 5,500 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more. In addition, Literary Reference Center includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story , all of MagillOnLiterature PlusT , and much moreA comprehensive database providing a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames. -
Oxford English Dictionary
Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. Search for OED's definition of a word or phrase, etymologies and quotations.Find word definitions, etymologies, and quotations. -
Picture Book Database
The Picture Book Database combines data from dozens of online and print sources, thousands of picture books, and many publisher, author, and illustrator websites. You can find picture books by artistic media and style, character education, literary devices, literacy tie-ins, categories, genres, and formats, series and characters, original publisher/title/language (for titles published outside the U.S.), country of origin, and age ranges.Combines data from dozens of online and print sources, thousands of picture books, and countless publisher, author, and illustrator websites. -
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), your resource for an extensive array of information about children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media. The database contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books, ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults, and an average of more than 1500 new reviews are added to the database monthly. This database also lists awards, honors and prizes that books have won.Full text children's book reviews from board books to novels and non-fiction. -
Credo Reference
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
