Literature

Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database
Includes critical reviews and information about children's books, videos and audio books.  This database contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books, ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults, and an average of more than 1500 new reviews are added to the database monthly.

Humanities International Collection (EBSCO)
Humanities International Complete™ provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.  This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases.  The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals.

Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
This database provides online access to the hundreds of volumes of literary criticism and commentary. These series represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.  The material is delivered in a format that matches the look of the print originals.

Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Current and comprehensive online literature database.  The resource's critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills.  Information on authors and their works, from all time periods and from around the world.

LitFinder (Gale)
LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains literature content, including more than 140,000 full-text poems, 840,000 poem citations and excerpts, 7,100 full-text short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays published in the 16th-20th centuries, 2,400 full-text speeches, and 1,250 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.  Within LitFinder's collection, patrons have access to works from over 80,000 authors from 660 nationalities.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.

Shakespeare Collection (Gale)
Offers functionality for the study of Shakespeare and his works.  Brings together general reference data, full-text scholarly periodicals, reprinted criticism, primary source material and the full-text annotated works from The Arden Shakespeare.