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Literature: Web Databases & Resources

 


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Gale Literature Resource Center on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
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for high quality full-text literary criticism articles & biographical info on authors.
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For more precise searches, click on the Advanced Search button on the blue task bar
- In the Advanced Search mode, “Keyword” searches are usually most effective
- When results for a search are first displayed, only "Literature Criticism" articles are listed. Click on the “Biographies", "Topic & Work Overviews", “Reviews & News” or “Primary Sources” tabs for additional articles.

Gale LitFinder: Nearly 150,000 full-text poems and thousands of full-text short stories, essays, speeches, and plays, plus biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. - info

Oxford English Dictionary on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Definitions for most words in the English language, plus information on word origins

PLS Online Catalog
Catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System.

After clicking on the link above to access the catalog, follow the steps below:

  • Type search words in the first search box
  • To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library, scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select Skyline College & then click the Submit button.

Links to Other Web Resources:

Literary Criticism Resources (IPL): Links to other literary criticism sites.

Online Books Page: Links to over 15,000 on-line books and shorter texts by author and title.

Bartleby.com: Database of thousands of full-text poems, novels, plays, essays, and other works in the public domain plus encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & close to 100,000 quotations.

Poets' Corner: Over 6,700 poems by 780 poets, including a subject index.

American Verse Project: More than 150 volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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last revised: 2-4-10
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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