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English Department

General Resources

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General Resources - Databases
To access these databases from home, consult page 22 in your Student Handbook or stop by the library to get the username & password.

Click on the icon to go directly to the database.
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CultureGrams
Gain in-depth information on 190 countries and territories and the 50 United States.
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Encyclopedia Americana
An online encyclopedia that includes an international current events database and newspapers from around the world.
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JSTOR (Journal Storage)
JSTOR maintains a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and provides access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed and illustrated.
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Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center is the most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world.
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NoveList
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for more than 125,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-Alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context
A library of facts and arguments about current events topics; includes statistics and government information within the framework of a pro/con issue.
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SIRS
SIRS Researcher is an excellent source for full text articles on social issues. Also provides access to SIRS Government Researcher and SIRS Decades.
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Student Resources in Context
A fully integrated database containing thousands of primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, and critical analyses. Also contains full-text coverage of hundreds of magazines and newspapers.




Last updated 12/01/11
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Library Media Specialist