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About Books | OPLIN What is it? Everything you want to know about books & authors. For more information, view this Ten Minute Tutor from the State Library of Ohio. Why use it? It is THE place to find read-alikes, author biographies, plot summaries, specific settings, specific genres, book publishing, and purchasing, series information, book reviews, and more!

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis.

American and English Literature Collections (© Chadwyck-Healey Ltd.) -- A fully searchable library of more than 260,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources.

Books and Authors Books & Authors offers ways to discover new books and authors. You can search by your favorite genre (mystery, romance, and more) or author. You can also find out what's new and what's coming soon. Review recommended books picked by librarians and write your own reviews and assign ratings.

Contemporary Novelists Gale Virtual Reference Library - Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.

Contemporary Poets Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provides biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets, including 120 new to this edition. Entries include personal and career information, addresses, a detailed bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and more. Each entry also includes a signed critical essay covering each poet's career and works, written by an expert in the field.

Discovering Collection | K- 12 Grades (© The Gale Group) -- This cross-curricular reference resource combines thousands of biographies, topical overviews, and critical analyses in the subjects of History, Science and Literature in a single database that supports classroom learning.

e-Sequels | A Reader's Guide to Novels in Series eSequels is current and complete so you can find the newest title by your favorite author or spot a title that you may have missed.

Gale Virtual Reference Library A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Updated weekly.

Literature On-Line Includes the following collections: 20th Century African Poetry Collection -- 20th Century American Poetry Collection -- 20th Century English Poetry Collection -- African American Poetry Collection -- American Drama Collection -- American Poetry Collection -- Bible in English -- Bibliography of American Literature -- Early American Fiction -- Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare -- Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- English Poetry Collection -- English Prose Drama -- English Verse Drama -- W.B. Yeats Collection.

Literature Resource Center (Cengage Learning - Gale) Access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary dicipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. Coverage of 2,000 of the most studied authors. Searchable by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary theme. Combines Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and more.

Student Research Center | 6 - 12 Grades (EBSCOhost) -- EBSCO's Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

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