| Subject: English | ||
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| full-text | Alexander Street - a ProQuest Company (formerly VAST) | |
| Valuable video, music and unique primary source collections encompassing nearly a billion searchable items in 20 academic disciplines as well as 270 million pages of historical primary source collections. Each video comes complete with keyword-searchable, synchronized transcripts as the video plays. Customize clips, name them, and annotate them. | ||
| full-text | Early English Books Online (EEBO) | |
| Early English Books Online (EEBO) features page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700. EEBO's content draws on authoritative short-title catalogues of the period and features a large number of text transcriptions specially created for the product. | ||
| full-text | Films on Demand - Humanities and Social Science | |
| Streaming access to full-length films and documentaries in the humanities and social sciences, including psychology, criminal justice, sociology, education, literature, and political science. Clips can be downloaded on instructor’s class pages for immediate viewing by students. | ||
| index | Gale Literary Index | |
| A master index to reference works, such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography, published by Gale. | ||
| full-text | Literary Reference Center Plus (EBSCO) | |
| Full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. It contains full text for plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, articles/essays of literary criticisms, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, and more. | ||
| full-text | Literary Reference Center Plus Classic View | |
| Full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. It contains full text for plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, articles/essays of literary criticisms, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, and more. | ||
| index | MLA Bibliography (EBSCO) | |
| Covers literature, language, linguistics and folklore. | ||
| index | MLA Directory of Periodicals (EBSCO) | |
| The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. | ||
| mixed | Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale) | |
| Covers social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to marijuana. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions. | ||
| full-text | Oxford English Dictionary | |
| The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. | ||
| full-text | Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO) | |
| Points of View Reference Center is a full text database provides students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications. | ||
| full-text | Points of View Reference Center Plus (EBSCO) | |
| Enhanced POV interface, containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. | ||
| web | Project Gutenberg | |
| Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. These are free because the copyright has expired. | ||
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| full-text | 18th Century Collection (Gale Primary Sources) | |
| Digital images of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. | ||
| full-text | 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale) | |
| With advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. | ||
| full-text | Films on Demand - Humanities and Social Science | |
| Streaming access to films and television shows in the humanities and social sciences. | ||
| full-text | Sabin Americana (Gale Primary Sources) | |
| Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Includes original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, and more. | ||
| full-text | Times Digital Archives (Gale) | |
| First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source, from 1785 to 2011. | ||
| General | ||
| full-text | JSTOR Arts and Sciences I , II, III & IV Collections | |
| The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals. JSTOR is not a current issues database. | ||