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- Book Index with Reviews
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An index of book, music, and video titles with over 800,000 full-text reviews. (Provider: EBSCO)
- CQ Researcher
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Special reports, published weekly, on current controversial topics. (Provider: CQ Press)
- Literary Reference Center Plus*
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Includes literary journals, books, author biographies, plot summaries, and more. (Provider: EBSCO)
- Literature Resource Center*
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Literary criticism, plot summaries, author biographies, bibliographies, links to web resources, and more. (Provider: Gale)
- MAS Ultra*
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A basic reading level collection of journal articles, reference books, documents, and photos. (Provider: EBSCO)
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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A multimedia database with in-depth analysis of thousands of social issues. Includes essays, journal articles, images, videos, podcasts, and more. A companion to the Opposing Viewpoints book series. (Provider: Gale)
- Oxford English Dictionary
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Definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language. (Provider: Oxford University Press)
- Primary Search
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Basic reading-level articles from over 70 popular magazines. Also includes Encyclopedia of Animals. (Provider: EBSCO)
Article Databases (multiple subjects)
- EBSCOhost*
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Combined search of EBSCO’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information. (Provider: EBSCO)
- JSTOR*
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An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals. (Provider: JSTOR)
- Newspaper Source Plus
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Over 1000 local, national, and international newspapers in full-text. Also includes news transcripts from ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, and more. (Provider: EBSCO)
- ProQuest Newspapers
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Full-text access to the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor. (Provider: ProQuest)
Reference Databases (multiple subjects)
- Biography Reference Bank
- Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries. (Provider: EBSCO)
- CQ Researcher
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Special reports, published weekly, on current controversial topics. (Provider: CQ Press)
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias (Provider: Gale)
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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A multimedia database with in-depth analysis of thousands of social issues. Includes essays, journal articles, images, videos, podcasts, and more. A companion to the Opposing Viewpoints book series. (Provider: Gale)
- Oxford Reference Online
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Contains over 250 reference works published by Oxford University Press. (Provider: Oxford University Press)
- Points of View Reference Center
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A database of resources that present multiple sides of a current issue. Includes point/counterpoint essays, videos, primary source documents, news transcripts, and more. (Provider: EBSCO)
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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Basic-level, general encyclopedia. (Provider: EBSCO)
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- Dictionary: OneLook Dictionary (Searches multiple English dictionaries)
- Dictionary: Online Etymology Dictionary
- Grammar & Writing Help: Dr. Grammar – FAQs (U. of Northern Iowa)
- Grammar & Writing Help: Proofreading for Errors (Indiana U.)
- Grammar & Writing Help: Purdue Online Writing Lab
- Grammar & Writing Help: Writer’s Handbook (UW Madison)
- Grammar & Writing Help: Writing and Grammar Handouts (UNC-Chapel Hill)
- Lit. : Bartleby Great Books Online (Reference, verse, fiction, nonfiction)
- Lit. : Early American Fiction Collection (Univ. of Virginia)
- Lit. : Emory Women Writers Resource Project
- Lit. : International Children’s Digital Library
- Lit. : Online Text Collections in Western European Literature
- Lit. : Prize-Winning Books from the Online Books Page (U. of Penn.)
- Lit. : Project Gutenberg eBook Archive
- Lit. : Selected Works of 19th Century African American Women Writers
- Lit. : The Literature Collection (U. of Wisconsin Digital Collections)
- Lit. : Women Writers (Search by name, date, country, or ethnicity)
- Lit. : Wright American Fiction (Indiana U.)
- Lit. Criticism: Gale Literary Index
- Lit. Criticism: Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection (ipl2)
- Lit. Criticism: Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism (Purdue OWL)
- Lit. Criticism: Literature Notes From CliffsNotes.com
- Lit. Criticism: The Cambridge History of English and American Lit. (Bartleby)
- Literary Awards: Children’s Notable Lists (ALSC/ALA)
- Literary Awards: Links from the American Writers Museum
- Literary Organizations: Links from the National Book Foundation
- Mythology: Encyclopedia Mythica
- Plagiarism.org
- Plays: Dramatists Play Service
- Poetry Foundation
- Poets' Corner
- Poets.org (Academy of American Poets)
- Primary vs. Secondary Sources: Comparative Chart (St. Anselm College)
- Primary vs. Secondary Sources: Primary Sources Tutorial (Michigan State U.)
- Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages (Bartleby.com)
- Quotations Collections (10+ classic collections presented by Bartleby.com)
- Quotations: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Bartleby.com)
- Reader's Advisory: What Should I Read Next?
- Reader's Advisory: WhichBook
- Reviews: Kirkus Reviews
- Reviews: New York Times Book Reviews
- Rhetoric: Silva Rhetoricae - The Forest of Rhetoric
- RhymeZone
- Scholary Journals -- How to Identify: What is a Scholarly Journal? (SDSU)
- Science Fiction: Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- Shakespeare Online
- Shakespeare: Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- Speeches: American Rhetoric (5000+ famous speeches, lectures and more)
- Website Links from the Mesa College English Department
- Writers: Interviews with Contemporary Authors (Paris Review)
- Writers: Interviews with Top Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators