Literary Databases from EBSCO

Literary Databases from EBSCO

Extensive indexing and full-text coverage of the leading literary resources

Poetry & Short Story Reference CenterTM

Bringing a new approach to poetry and short stories, Poetry & Short Story Reference Center provides users with a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies, and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques.

This full-text database incorporates contemporary content from the finest publishers including Knopf, Houghton Mifflin, New Directions, Copper Canyon Press and dozens of authors and estates, as well as Critical Survey of Poetry and Critical Survey of Short Fiction, and other major respected reference books and literary journals.

Poetry & Short Story Reference Center contains:

More than 712,000 full-text poems, both classic and contemporary

More than 53,000 full-text short stories, both classic and contemporary

Nearly 11,000 dramatic works

More than 2,300 audio recordings of poets reading their own works from Academy of American Poets, poets reading works of other poets and podcasts from The Poetry Foundation

High-quality videos provided by Academy of American Poets and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions

Nearly 450 explications of both classic and contemporary poems

Nearly 550 eBooks focused on poetry, drama and short stories

Teaching & Learning Guides featuring lesson plans and tips for assignments specifically crafted for this database

Literary Reference CenterTM Plus

Literary Reference CenterTM Plus is the ultimate online literary resource, providing users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. This full-text database combines information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals, as well as original content from EBSCO.

Full-text content contained within Literary Reference Center Plus includes:

More than 35,700 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews

Nearly 90,000 articles/essays of literary criticism

More than 259,000 author biographies

Full text for more than 700 literary journals

More than 2,500 reference books

More than 831,000 book reviews

More than 122,000 classic and contemporary poems

More than 29,000 classic and contemporary short stories

Nearly 9,800 author interviews

Over 2,800 images of key literary figures

Full text for more than 8,200 classic novels

In addition, Literary Reference CenterTM Plus includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus and much more.

Literary Reference CenterTM Plus contains everything in Literary Reference Center, plus the following

More than 1,400 additional full-text literary reference books/works

276 additional full-text literary journals & magazines 40 unique Critical Insights Volumes 40 full-text literary study guides 72 literary videos pertaining to classic literary works

and authors Literary Reference CenterTM (standard edition) and MagillOnLiterature Plus are also available for individual purchase.

MLA MLA International Bibliography MLA International Bibliography 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 more than 2.5 million citations from nearly 4,900 journals & series, and 1,200 book publishers.

The indexed materials coverage is international and includes 67 titles from J-STOR's language and literature collection as well as full-text links from publishers including J-STOR, Project Muse, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor & Francis. The accompanying Directory of Periodicals database includes journal information for nearly 7,000 titles. This database includes journal abbreviations and acronyms for approximately 3,500 titles, with full journal names standardized and ISSNs attached. MLA International Bibliography also contains more than 372,000 subject names and terms.

Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.

In addition to the bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals; the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography; and a proprietary, searchable directory of noted authors' names, with links to brief descriptive notes.

Humanities International CompleteTM

Humanities International CompleteTM provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes:

All data from Humanities International IndexTM (more than 2,200 journals and 3.4 million records)

Unique full-text content (for more than 1,200 journals), much of which is not found in other databases

Humanities Source

Developed through a combination of H.W. Wilson's high-quality subject indexing and the power of EBSCOhost?, Humanities Source offers a single, powerful resource to provide the most comprehensive and relevant search results.

Coverage dating back to 1907 Access to more than 1,500 journals A combination of Humanities Index Retrospective,

Humanities Abstracts, Humanities Full Text and Humanities International Complete, plus 165 additional full-text journals not previously available in any database

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