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Database by Subject: Literature and Languages

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Literature and Languages

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Academic Search Complete

1990 - present

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Updated monthly. Provides full text for 5,256 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.

AfricaBib

1974 - present

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Updated regularly. Provides bibliographic access to Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature. Also has a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa.

Contemporary Authors

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Updated regularly. Covers more than 100,000 modern authors from a wide range of media who were active prior to 1960 and whose works continue to influence contemporary literature. Information is drawn from the entire Contemporary Authors print series.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select

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Updated regularly. Presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959. A strong emphasis is placed on including criticism of works by established authors who frequently appear on syllabuses of high school and college literature courses.

Dictionary of Literary Biography

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Updated regularly. 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.

Directory of Open Access Journals

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The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. DOAJ aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are over 2796 journals in the directory. Over 800 journals are searchable at article level.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Dozens of reference sources in many subjects.

International Children's Digital Library

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Explore a world of children's books at the ICDL, a public library for the world's children. Read 871 free children's books written in 33 different languages. The International Children's Digital Library is a project of the University of Maryland.

JSTOR

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Updated periodically. Includes the complete backfiles for over 200 scholarly journals, including major titles from all subject disciplines.

Latin American Network Information Center

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Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin. The ambitious mission of this site is "...to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America." From Peruvian recipes to Chilean economic policies, LANIC provides vast resources, and can be accessed in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. The resources available will be of use to anyone with an interest in most any subject related to Latin America, including academic researchers, primary, and secondary educators.

Literature Resource Center with Twayne's and Scribner

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Updated regularly. Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.

Online Books Page

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The goal of the Online Books Page is to facilitate "access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Now in its tenth year, this site includes a searchable database of over 20,000 book titles available from many different sources, including such well known sites as the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center and Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/), also a Mars Best 2003 winner. In addition to keyword searching, there are options to browse by author, title or subject, this latter category arranged by Library of Congress call number. New to the site are links to several runs of serial archives. Primarily an index to English language materials, there is a page of links provided to several foreign language sites.

Perseus Digital Library

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The Perseus Digital Library is "an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities." Though the Project initially focused on texts relating to ancient Greece, the site's contents gradually expanded to include Latin text and tools and Renaissance-related materials. Further collaborations with the site's host, Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives led to the inclusion of Tufts University historical material, the Bolles Collection on (19th century) London, and materials on the United States' westward expansion and other materials of early American history including the American Civil War.

Twentieth Century Poetry (American & English)

Most current file

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Updated periodically. Includes more than 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes of poetry by over 300 American poets.