Literature Databases
Biography Resource Center
Biographies on more than 220,000 people, full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals and major reference
books. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality,
ethnicity, occupation, or gender.
Book Review Index Online Plus
A comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape, and electronic media. It contains the entire backfile of Book Review Index print content (1965-) with more than 634,000 full-text reviews.
Books & Authors
Search by title, author, or series, or browse for a good book by genre and more. This source includes both fiction and non-fiction works.
Discovering Collection
Search Discovering Authors, Exploring Novels, Exploring Poetry, Exploring Shakespeare, Exploring Short Stories, and UXL Junior.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - A selection of 24 e-book reference titles covering health, literature, arts, history, science and more. Conduct a single search across all publications in the collection.
Gale Virtual Reference Library II
A selection of 16 e-book reference titles covering health, American history, ancient civilizations, terrorism, science and more. Conduct a single search across all publications in the collection.
Literature Resource Center
90,000+ author biographies. Literary criticism from hundreds of sources.
LitFinder
Poem Finder with over 100,000 full-text poems. Story Finder containing classic and contemporary full-text stories
with explanations. Essay Finder providing full-text essays and critical writing based on books in the 20th
century. All three databases are combined into one comprehensive literature database.
NextReads
Choose from 20 different e-mail newsletters, with suggested reading lists, delivered monthly or bi-monthly by topic or genre.
Novelist
Guide to fiction by age level, readers' advice by genre, and book discussion aids.
Scribner's Writer Series
For high school through college level. Essays on the lives and works of 1600+ important authors from around the
world. In-depth coverage of noted novelists, playwrights, poets, short story writers, essayists, journalists,
critics, philosophers, and writers for children and young adults. Includes 40+ essays on special topics in
literature, gothic novels, nature, and poetry.
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