Academic Search Premier
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"The
world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search
Premier contains indexing for over 8,000 publications, with full text for
more than 4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available
for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided
for more than 1,000 titles."
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Expanded Academic ASAP
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For
college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
(1980 - present)
* Comprehensive
periodical database covering all academic disciplines
* Millions of full-text articles from 2000+ scholarly, refereed
and professional journals and selected general interest magazines
* Indexing of additional professional and general periodicals
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MLA International Bibliography
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"MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers."
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Contemporary Authors
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Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography
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Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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Academic OneFile
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Articles from 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals and reference sources, the majority in full-text, covering the disciplines of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more
Full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present
Podcasts and transcripts from National Public Radio (NPR), Cable News Network (CNN), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Updated daily
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America: History and Life
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A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States
and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the
database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. Covers over
2,000 journals published worldwide, including all key English-language
historical journals, selected historical journals from major countries,
state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds
of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
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Book Review Index Online Plus
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Book Review Index Online Plus, like Book Review Index Online , includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.
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Books & Authors
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For librarians, teachers and readers of all ages
Readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction.
Numerous search criteria, genre lists, plot summaries, author information, award lists, etc.
Book jacket images, book reviews from more than 30 sources
User-friendly tools that allow users to store reading and search lists and create reviews and ratings
Visual search technology for narrowing choices and graphically viewing search term relationships
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Chicago Tribune Full-Text (1849 - 1986)
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Chicago Tribune (1849-1986) offers full page and
article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital
reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
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Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
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Gale's Literary Index
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A master index for Gale Group's major literature series
containing authors' biographies and critical
essays on their writings. Included in the index are cross-references to more than
130,000 author names and more
than 140,000 titles.
*This database is only available on the Columbia College campus.
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Historical Abstracts
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A complete bibliographic reference guide to the history of the world
from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada,
which are covered in America:
History and Life). Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide,
including the key historical journals from virtually every major country,
as well as a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social
sciences and humanities.
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History Cooperative
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History Cooperative |
A premier resource for historians on the Web that provides access
to the full-text of current issues of the following journals: The
American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Law and
History Review, The William and Mary Quarterly, The History Teacher,
The Western Historical Quarterly, Common-place, and Labour/Le Travail.
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History Resource Center: U.S.
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History Resource Center: U.S.
provides a complete overview of U.S. history covering the most-studied events, issues and current
information. Selected by expert history advisors for its relevance in the undergraduate
curriculum, the content combines:
* Original materials from Primary Source Microfilm's digital archives-including documents, monographs, pamphlets, first-person accounts, etc
* Encyclopedic articles built from the foundation of respected MacMillan Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons information, as well as other Thomson Gale original, proprietary content such as country and era overviews
* Full-text periodicals and scholarly history journals
* A historical bibliography
* Links to digitized special collections
* Audio and Video clips of historic speeches and events
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History Resource Center: World
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History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
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Literature Resource Center
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Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
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LitFinder
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LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more.
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New York Times Full-Text (1851-2004)
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For more recent full-text coverage, please access any one of the following databases:
Academic OneFile
Custom
Newspapers
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Oxford African American Studies Center
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"The Oxford African American
Studies Center (AASC) provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to the finest
reference resources in African American studies. AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of
African American History 1619-1895, the three-volume Black Women in America, and the highly acclaimed
Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The
Center also includes content from the African American National Biography project and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture.
In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference
program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature."
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Oxford English Dictionary Online
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The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is
an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the
usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature
and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New
Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation
using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Play Index
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Coverage dates: Plays written from Antiquity to present and published from 1949 to present
Search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the
present in the convenient electronic form that patrons prefer. An invaluable aid to finding the
perfect plays to match your production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written
in or translated into English. Search for plays by title, author, subject, style, genre, cast type, and more.
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Project Muse
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"Provides online, worldwide institutional subscription access to the full text of over 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics."
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Scribners Writers
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Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series, including African American Writers,
African Writers,
American Nature Writers,
American Writers,
Ancient Writers,
The Books of the Bible,
British Writers,
European Writers,
Latin American Writers,
Modern American Women Writers,
Science Fiction Writers,
Supernatural Writers, and
Writers for Children.
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Shakespeare Survey Online
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Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.
Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start.
The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.
Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. Volume 60, due in October 2007, will be added to Shakespeare Survey Online on publication.
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SIRS Discoverer
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For
students in grades 1-9, their teachers and parents
* Articles,
pictures, reference information and Web sites on all subjects
* Age appropriate, full-text articles and images selected from 1,600+
U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications
and reference sources
* Reading levels assigned to all articles Maps, pictures, photo
essays, activities, biographies, country facts, current events
* Links to age appropriate Web sites with reading level indicators
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SIRS Knowledge Source
On-Campus
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remotely |
For
advanced middle school students through adults
* Articles,
images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects
* Articles selected from 2,500+ U.S. and international magazines,
newspapers, government publications and reference sources
* News, current events and organized links to evaluated Web sites
* Includes special features on - literature, terrorism and other
topics
* Interactive textbook on citizenship with teacher resources
* Images, maps, country profiles, primary sources and Supreme Court
decisions
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Twayne's Authors Series
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The
acclaimed Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth
introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence
of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This
online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise
three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World
Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from
librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in
high schools and colleges.
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