ENG 190 Honors Composition & Literature

Academic Search Premier is an excellent multidisciplinary research database that contains scholarly journals as well as magazines, newspapers, and trade publications. Much of the content is full text.

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A great place to start your research with access to the world's best citable information, wherever you are. Easy access to trusted content from over 70 of the world's leading academic publishers. Access to a large number of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference books. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology.

The Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides reliable information on authors and their works while at the same placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Complete Online includes the main series, documentary, and yearbook volumes.

Collection of over 900 journals relating to the field of Education and the Social Sciences. Covers 1988-present and many are full text journals.

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Connects users to biographical information on over 120,000 authors, and includes over 10,000 biocritical essays. Includes the Gale Literary Index - containing abstracts of critical scholarly articles on literature, poetry, drama, and more.

Literature Online (LION) includes access to works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. Proquest has provided additional product information and 'Search Tips.'

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