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  • Bloom's Literature Best Bet
    Contains essays on well-known writers, works, and influential movements and evens in world literature plus bios, character entries, and videos.
  • Gale Artemis: Literary Sources Best Bet
    Combines Literature Resource Center with Gale Virtual Reference Library in one interface. Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.
  • Gale's Literary Index Best Bet
    Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source.
  • Literary Reference Source Best Bet
    Full-text information on authors and works from reference works, books, and literary journals.
  • Literature Resource Center Best Bet
    Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors. Its critical, biographical and contextual content supports interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy and the development of critical-thinking skills.
  • MLA Directory of Periodicals Best Bet
    Detailed information on over 5,500 journals. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
  • MLA International Bibliography Best Bet
    Provides international scholarly materials, including journal articles, books/chapters, and dissertations, on literature, modern language, linguistics, and folklore.
  • Academic Search Complete Featured
    Designed for academic institutions, this multi-disciplinary database is a leading resource for scholarly research with access to 5,500+ full-text journals. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.
  • African-American History
    Covering more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History offers a fresh way to explore the full spectrum of African-American history and culture. Designed more for secondary education students.
  • Comics Plus New
    Comics Plus, powered by LibraryPass, offers thousands of comics, graphic novels, and manga digitally as an excellent resource to help build and expand the diversity of formats in curriculum, as well as the public awareness of the scope of what graphic novels has to offer. Some materials offered in this collection may display mature content and can be accessed by request made to the Electronic Resources Librarian.
  • eBook Collection
    Search and view the full text of eBooks.
  • JSTOR
    Access full text of journal articles (not including the most recent 2-6 years) as well as books and book chapters in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
  • ProQuest Ebook Central
    Funded by the PASCAL consortium, this collection of academic ebooks covers all subject areas. Page limits for printing and downloading vary by title and apply per book per user session.
  • The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic

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