Literature: Web Databases & Resources

Literature: Web Databases & Resources

Links to Best Websites for:
- Art
- Current Events
- Ethnic Relations
- History
- Psychology
- Social Issues

Gale Literature Resource Center on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
START HERE for high quality full-text literary criticism articles & biographical info on authors. info
- For more precise searches, click on the Advanced Search button on the blue task bar
- In the Advanced Search mode, “Keyword” searches are usually most effective
- When results for a search are first displayed, only "Literature Criticism" articles are listed. Click on the “Biographies", "Topic & Work Overviews", “Reviews & News” or “Primary Sources” tabs for additional articles.

Gale LitFinder: More than 125,000 full-text poems and thousands of full-text short stories, essays, speeches, and plays, plus biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.

Gale PowerSearch databases - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
articles from academic journals, popular magazines and newspapers; excellent set of general periodical databases, especially useful for recent history.
- To narrow searches, combine concepts with AND or use the Advanced search mode to search for multiple concepts.
- PLEASE NOTE: When search results are first displayed, only magazine articles are shown, if available for your search.
Click on the “Academic Journals” tab to display journal articles, click on "News" to display news articles; click on "Books" to display book articles.

Oxford English Dictionary on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Definitions for most words in the English language, plus information on word origins

PLS Online Catalog: Online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and all S.M. County libraries.

Links to Other Web Resources:

Literary Criticism Resources (IPL): Links to other literary criticism sites.

Literature Criticism (LII): Links to recommended literature-related sites.

Online Books Page: Links to over 15,000 on-line books and shorter texts by author and title.

Bartleby.com: Database of thousands of full-text poems, novels, plays, essays, and other works in the public domain plus encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & close to 100,000 quotations.

Poets' Corner: Over 6,700 poems by 780 poets, including a subject index.

American Verse Project: More than 150 volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

last revised: 3-5-08
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
These materials may be used for educational purposes if you inform and credit the author and cite the source as: Skyline College Library. All commercial rights are reserved. To contact the author, or send comments or suggestions, email: Eric Brenner at brenner@smccd.net