Literature

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This database is a collection of 17,400 American biographies from throughout American History. ANB is the electronic version of the 24 volume print collection of American National Biography. It is updated quarterly with several hundred biographies and revisions added yearly. Each entry also provides links to related web resources and a bibliography.

Granger’s Poetry contains over 190,000 full-text poems. There are also hundred of biographies of the most famous poets from around the world. Users can search Granger’s Poetry by keyword, first line of poem, author, and title.

The Oxford DNB is a collection of over 50,000 illustrated biographies of prominent British figures. The Oxford DNB is an expanded version of the Victorian Dictionary of National Biography with revisions and the addition of 16,500 biographies.

Humanities International Complete
HIC provides full-text material from humanities scholarly journals, books, and other published sources. To access HIC click on “EbscoHost Web” and replace “Advanced Placement Source” with “Humanities International Complete” in the drop-down menu.

Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center contains 130,000 author biographies, all of the Masterplots editions in a digital format, literary criticism, over 1000 literary reference books, scholarly journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, classic books, and author interviews.

FirstSearch is a collection of databases that contain popular and scholarly journals with some links to full-text articles. There is a small collection of journals with a focus on literature.

JSTOR is a collection of over 900 full-text scholarly journals. JSTOR contains complete backfiles for each journal with a moving window that averages around 5 years (current issues are not available). JSTOR offers close to 70 journals that focus on language and literature.

The Nation Archive
The Nation is the United States’ oldest weekly magazine. The Nation covers foreign affairs, local and national politics, education, law, literature, and the arts. The digital archive contains every issue of The Nation from 1865 to the present. The articles are in PDF format with full color images.

This database lets the user search over 100 Oxford University Press reference books at the same time. Oxford Reference contains nearly 20 reference books on literature, such as The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature and The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare.

Project Muse is a collection of over 300 full-text scholarly journals. The coverage in Muse is current (five to ten years). Close to one-third of Muse’s collection focuses on literature. Muse has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings.