Humanities

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.

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.

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:

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

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

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

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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:

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
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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.

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
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• decorative and utilitarian objects
• prints
• drawings and watercolors
• jewelry and costumes
• textiles
• books
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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.