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Literature, Language, Linguistics and Folklore. From 1926 to the present. Updated quarterly.
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Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature series published by Gale Group, Inc. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 160,000 titles into one source.
Gale's Literary Index provides quick and easy access to 90 of our most popular literary series, including titles from our imprints, Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press, and Twayne Publishers. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. Check the catalog to see if we subscribe to the literary series title you find referenced, and where it is located. We maintain subscriptions to most of the series covered in this index.
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Contempary Authors Online: current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors. Each Contemporary Authors Online entry contains the most complete and up-to-date entry, accessible through an easy-to-use interface with a variety of search paths to help you locate the information you need quickly and efficiently. You can easily search for an author by name, title of work, subject/genre, nationality, date and place of birth, honors, awards and much more.
Includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes. The Encyclopedia's articles offer historical perspective and social context along with a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach.
The Encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant (e.g., The Stationers' Company, the sonnet, the "School of Night," or the Sublime).
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Iter was created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of online resources. more==>
Founded in 1972 the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453...more==>
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JSTOR : a collection of fulltext online scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines. Coverage is from volume 1 of the journal excluding the last 3-5 years. Subjects covered are: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archeology, Asian Studies, Business, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology, Statistics. Search the fulltext of the periodicals or browse by journal title.
NOTE: The most current issues of a journal are NOT available - this is known as "the moving wall" and ensures that libraries will not drop print subscriptions to these journals, which would discourage publishers from participating. Check the library catalog to see if we susbscibe to the most recent issues either in print or online from another vendor.
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Project MUSE® offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Project MUSE is setting the standard for scholarly electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
You can browse the journals by title, or do keyword searching. All the journals will also be available in the Connelly Library catalog with links to Project Muse.
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Records referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities periodicals. 1980 - present.
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Book, movie, music & play reviews. Also includes entertainment and sport news.
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This database offers full-text and full-image articles for The New York Times dating back to the 1851and covering up to 1999. The file will continue to grow as recent years are added. The database includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF® files.
This premier newspaper database represents the first initiative to not only reach back into the past to digitize historical newspaper information but also to provide that information as both full-page-images and as article images. The database is fully searchable.
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The most recent years of the New York Times are available both through Proquest Direct and Lexis-Nexis.
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Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. Sources indexed in BGMI are of several types:
- Biographical dictionaries and who's whos, which supply information on a number of individuals.
- Subject encyclopedias, which include some biographical entries.
- Volumes of literary criticism, which may contain only a limited amount of biographical information but give critical surveys of a writer's works.
- Indexes, which refer the user to a body of information found elsewhere.
BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual. Updated twice a year.
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