Humanities
Biographies of authors with some critical commentary.
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Full text: current edition.
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his reference eBook contains entries on authors that are searchable in a variety of ways: by author's name, title of work, nationality, ethnicity, and others. Many entries include hyperlinks to other entries on related authors and subjects. Also includes essays on literary topics and publishing houses.A few of the authors indexed are:
Ralph Ellison
William Faulkner
Jerzy Kosinski
Margaret Mitchell
Toni Morrison
Amy Tan
The print versions of current and previous editions are available in Miller Nichols Library Ready Reference PN451 .D43.
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Truncation*, Fuzzy searching
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September 29, 2009--MC
Searchable essays on literary theory and criticism.
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Full text: current edition
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This reference eBook contains more than 240 explanatory entries on literary criticism that can be searched by author, literary movement, or subject. Essays include hyperlinks to other related entries and feature bibliographies of selected primary and secondary sources. Provides an easy to browse list of entries. Literary theories covered include:
Deconstruction
Discourse Analysis
Ecocriticism
Feminism
New Historicism
Post-Colonial Studies
The print version of the first edition is available in Miller Nichols Library Reference PN81 .J554 1994.
Features:
Truncation*, Cross references
Vendor:
Johns Hopkins University Press
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September 29, 2009--MC
Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
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Citations only: 1975 - present.
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Indexes citations for articles from more than 2,600 scholarly journals in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. The journals, which are edited in 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries, also contain essays, book reviews, technical reports, and interviews.
Journal topics include:
Agricultural sciences
Anthropology
Arts
Biology
Chemistry
Economics
Education
Engineering
Foreign affairs
Geosciences
History
Law
Linguistics and literature
Management and accounting
Medicine
Philosophy
Physics
Politics
Psychology
Religion
Sociology
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August 24, 2009-- MC
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Full text: current edition.
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Literature Criticism Online is comprised of 10 subdatabases, which offer both modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. The database features scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. Literary references cover the last 30 years.
Subdatabases Include:
Contemporary Literary Criticism: Covers authors currently active or who died after Dec. 31, 1999
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Covers major authors of 1900-1999
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Covers major authors of 1800-1899
Shakespearean Criticism: Comprehensive Coverage of Shakespeare
Literature Criticism from 1400–1800: Covers authors of the late-Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restoration eras
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Covers major classical and medieval authors
Poetry Criticism: Covers poets of all eras
Short Story Criticism: Covers major authors of short fiction
Drama Criticism: Covers major dramatists of all eras
Children's Literature Review: Covers the most influential authors of children’s literature
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August 19, 2009 -- AFF
Literary texts and criticism, author information.
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Full text literary works: 600 AD to the present. Full text journals: 1988 - present. Indexes MLA: 1926 to the present and ABELL: 1920 to the present.
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Covers poetry, prose, drama, literary criticism, and author biographies, providing access to over 350,000 literary works. Allows you to search for book chapters, dissertations, and articles from scholarly journals using both the MLA International Bibliography and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Includes 250+ full text journals. Also includes an index of reliable and relevenat web sites selected by specialists. Provides access to Poets on Screen, sound files of poets reading their own and others' poetry.
Includes the following electronic versions of reference works:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century
Encyclopedia of the Novel
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
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Student guides, Reference shelf, Saved searches in My Archive, Truncation*
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August 19, 2009--MC
Provides full text access to popular Hispanic magazines and other bilingual sources for Spanish speaking users.
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Full text: 2002 - present.
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Access is restricted to UMKC students, faculty and staff. Off-campus access is available.
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Designed for Spanish speaking users with a dual language interface allows Spanish speaking users and
English speaking users to browse full text articles from over 420 popular Hispanic and bilingual periodicals such as:
Latin American Research Review
NACLA Report on the Americas
La Opinión
National Geographic en Español
Epoca
Provides primary indexing, imaging and full-text access to research materials in Spanish, not just translations. Topics covered include:
news
politics
current events
culture
entertainment
health
literature
science
Link to title list .
Updated daily.
Features:
Saved Searches Function
Journal Alerts
Customizable Interface for users
Bilingual interface
Spanish language Index and Thesaurus
Audio versions of articles available
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August 18, 2009 -- KS
Librarian-selected guide to 16,000 of the best reference sources, organized by discipline.
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Citations only: current version
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Access is restricted to UMKC students, faculty and staff. Off-campus access is available.
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Guide to Reference online is published by the American Library Association. The Guide is a collection of 16,000 sources chosen and evaluated by reference librarians and subject specialists.
Reference categories include:
General Reference Works
Bibliography
Biography
Dissertations
Encyclopedias
Genealogy
Government Publications
Language Dictionaries
Library and Information Science
Newspapers
Periodicals
Other General Reference Works
The Web as Reference Tool
Online General Reference Libraries
History and Area Studies
General History
History of Africa
History of the Americas
History of Asia
History of Australia and Oceania
History of Europe
History of the Polar Regions
Humanities
General Humanities
Art and Architecture
Design and Applied Arts
Languages, Linguistics, Philology
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Religion
Sports and Recreation
Theater and Performing Arts
Science, Technology, and Medicine
General Science
Agriculture
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Mathematics
Medical and Health Sciences
Physics
Social and Behavioral Sciences
General Social Sciences
Anthropology and Ethnology
Education
Economics and Business
Geography
Law
Mythology, Folklore, Popular Culture
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Statistics and Demography
Interdisciplinary Fields
Cognitive Science
Communication and Media Studies
Cultural Studies
Environmental Studies
Gender Studies
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Truncation, Creation of User Profile, Saved Searches
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August 18, 2009 -- FEN
Large collection of searchable ebooks covering many disciplines.
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Full text: coverage varies
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ebrary Academic Complete contains more than 43,900 full-text ebooks covering a wide range of disciplines. The sixteen key subject areas are:
Business & Economics
Computers & IT
Education
Engineering & Technology
History & Political Science
Humanities
Interdisciplinary & Area Studies
Language, Literature & Linguistics
Law, International Relations & Public Policy
Life Sciences
Medical
Nursing & Allied Health
Physical Sciences
Psychology & Social Work
Religion, Philosophy & Classics
Sociology & Anthropology
Additional content, including maps, journals and reports
Features:
Can create ebrary account to:
Make bookmarks and page notes for any available book.
Highlight text in any available book.
Quickly and easily access all books you have bookmarked, notated, or highlighted.
Be notified of new features and new document collections as they become available.
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August 18, 2009 -- FEN
Full-text digital articles from newspapers around the world
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Full text: coverage varies by title
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Access is restricted to UMKC students, faculty and staff. Off-campus access is available.
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Info Trac Custom Newspapers provides full text articles from over 565 newspapers around the world. Searchable by title, headline, date, author, or section.
Features:
RSS feeds and Search Alerts for new content, Citation Tools
Description updated:
August 18, 2009 -- FEN
CAMIO contains fine art and decorative art from pre-history through contemporary works. All content is rights-cleared for educational use in the classroom or to illustrate papers, Web projects and other assignments.
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Prehistoric to contemporary time artwork
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CAMIO—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online—contains about 95,000 works of fine and decorative art from leading museums around the world. The scope of the collection ranges from 3000 BCE to the present, representing premiere examples of Asian, African, Latin American and Western art. Difficult-to-find contemporary art is one of its strengths. The content includes high-resolution images of:
photographs
paintings
sculpture
decorative and utilitarian objects
prints
drawings and watercolors
jewelry and costumes
textiles
books
installations
architecture
In addition, audio-video and mixed media works are included. Benefits of the interface include downloading high-resolution images, the ability to e-mail images and metadata for further study, and fast, powerful, Web-based searching. All content is rights-cleared for educational use.
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June 11, 2009 -- FEN