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Academic Search Complete	Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections Online	Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography	ebrary	Gale Virtual Reference Library - Literature	Literature Resource Center
Magill on Literature Plus	netLibrary	Proquest Learning Literature	Student Resource Center	Scribner Writer's Series	The Twayne Authors Series

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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study.

Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections Online

Twentieth-Century English Poetry offers online access to the poetry of some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. It incorporates the works of 285 of the most widely studied poets of the British Isles and beyond, including over forty distinguished authors from The Faber Poetry Library.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry - This unparalleled collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.

Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography

Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select collects more than 35,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

ebrary

The ebrary collection consists of 18,000 electronic books on many subjects. Easy to install software is required to take advantage of the ability to insert notes, highlight passages and bookmark, among other personalizing features.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Literature

Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers a wealth of eBook reference content in a database format, allowing libraries to choose exactly which titles to make available to their patrons. Temple College has access to the following multivolume collections: Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, and Short Stories for Students.

Literature Resource Center

Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles.

Magill On Literature Plus

Magill on Literature Plus combines Magill on Authors and Magill on Literature into one searchable database. MagillOnLiterature is the definitive, online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses. This database also includes brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.

netLibrary

netLibraryis a collection of electronic books on many subjects including Computer Science, Nursing, Literature, and History. For information on setting up a free personal account and to read the FAQ, click on the Help button at the top of the Net Library web page. Click on the netLibrary link above to go to the web site and begin taking advantage of a library of thousands of e-books accessible through your computer.

Proquest Learning: Literature

A comprehensive resource including 3,000+ author biographies; 40 searchable full-text literature journals; full-text literary works; and other key criticism and reference sources.

Scribner Writer's Series

Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.

The Twayne Authors Series

Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.

Student Resource Center Gold

A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.

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