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Last updated 1/20/2008 - This list of electronic resources is designed to assist students in "getting started" with online research. Additional resources, including books and periodicals, may be relevant.
Databases
Literature Resource Center Complete literature reference database. Includes biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of over 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
LitFinder^ Complete text of selected poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches from writers of diverse nationalities and ethnicities, dating from antiquity to the present. Also included are 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary.
Literature Criticism Online Poetry and short story criticism.
Biography Resource Center Search for author biographies.
MLA International Bibliography Major index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore and cultural studies. Includes some full text articles.
Scribner Writers Series Biographical and critical material about writers from Classical to the present. Primary focus is American and British authors. Over 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from many of the Scribner print sources.
Academic OneFile - Gale General interest database with more than 10,000 journals.
Academic Search Premier - Ebscohost General interest database of full text articles for nearly 4,700 publications.
SIRS Renaissance Current information on culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and visual arts.Credo Reference Includes full-text articles from language and literature reference books.
Internet Resources (opens in new window)
Literary Reference Center Requires Greenville County Library System Library Card. Plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, author biographies and interviews, literary criticism and book reviews, full text of over 300 literary journals.Gale Literary Index Find an author or title in this master index to every literary series published by Gale series.
Victorian Women Writers Project Transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. Includes anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, poetry, and verse drama.
Print ResourcesBeginning with call number P and continuing through PZ, the Language and Literature collection is one of the largest and most used collections in the Library.
- P Philosophy and linguistics
- PA Greek and Latin languages and literatures
- PC Romance languages, including foreign language dictionaries and translations
- PD English language, including dictionaries and thesauri
- PF - PH Germanic, Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Basque languages, including foreign language dictionaries and translations
- PJ - PM Languages and some literature of Asia, Africa, Oceania, and artificial languages, including foreign language dictionaries and translations
- PN Summaries and criticism for general literature, including poetry, short fiction, long fiction, and classic works
- PQ Summaries and criticism for French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese literature, including poetry, short fiction, long fiction, and classic works
- PR Summaries and criticism for British literature, including poetry, short fiction, long fiction, and classic works
- PS Summaries and criticism for American literature, including poetry, short fiction, long fiction, and classic works
- PT Other literature summaries and criticisms
- PZ General fiction, especially modern, and juvenile literature summaries and criticisms
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