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Literature
55 volume collection covering current topics, culture and medicine.
Academic journals; podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and CBC; full-text New York Times back to 1995.
Wide coverage scholarly database covering many academic areas. Full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
Thousands of critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom's Literary Criticism series; includes "Bloom's How to Write About:"with specific advice on how to write good essays on popularly assigned authors.
Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic online interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun. Includes the entire "What Do I Read Next?" collection.
Critical essays on contemporary authors. Entries contain biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.
Scholarly journals in literature and humanities.
Over 6,200 full-length programs and 65,800 video segments streamed on demand from Films for the Humanities, BBC, CBC, PBS and others. Subjects include humanities, science, business, health, technical education, careers and counseling. Watch an entire episode, or just one indexed segment keyed to your search.
497 scholarly titles in arts & sciences (JSTOR A&S II + III), and Language & Literature.
Research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in LibGuides!
Literary criticism; plot summaries; biographies & interviews; reviews & literary journals; full text of poems, short stories & novels; images.
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Searches across Gale Literature Resource Center
LitFinder and Gale Virtual Reference Library.
A wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Manual. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word.
To access NoodleBib off campus, login in to your Pipeline account and choose NoodleBib under the Library heading on the right side of the page.
Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world, offering more than 46 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages with holdings information.