Biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Includes full-page images from the entire Dictionary of Literary Biography series (the DLB Main Series, DLB Documentary Series, and DLB Yearbook Series), a mainstay in the reference collection for over 30 years.
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information about U.S. and international authors. This resource covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters.
This resource covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters.
A digital reference library of dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and subject-specific titles, covering many subjects, all from leading publishers.
Credo Reference is a digital reference library that places a world of factual information at your fingertips. Containing more than 500 high-quality reference books from some of the world's leading publishers, this is a great place to start your research. The database contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, as well as a variety of subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature. Besides textual information, you can also find thousands of images (including 17,000 art images from The Bridgeman Art Library Archive), sound files (especially pronunciations of words), and animations.
Browse or search more than 100,000 articles from Encyclopædia Britannica
Entries range from short to book-length articles. This resource includes:
Thousands of photographs, illustrations, and sound files
Links to thousands of websites selected by Britannica editors
Thousands of entries from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
Articles from selected magazines and journals (sources include EBSCO and ProQuest)
Hundreds of video clips (requires Microsoft Media Player or Apple QuickTime)
A collection of quotations from both historical and contemporary men and women on a wide variety of topics
World Data Analyst - a collection of in-depth information about the countries of the world, including statistics, with tools that enable you to create interesting and information comparative charts and tables.
Gateway to the Classics - a selection of 225 works by 140 authors introducing you to the great writing and ideas of the Western world
An index to scholarly research in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore produced by the Modern Language Association of America.
A multi-disciplinary database. You can narrow your search to journals in specific subject areas like "Language & Literature" and "Latin American Studies."
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. Subject areas include the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
JSTOR includes various collections, and the St. Kate's Library has purchased the Arts and Sciences Collections I-VII and the Biological Sciences Collection. These collections include subsets for ecology & botany, language & literature, and music.
JSTOR's agreements with publishers often include a "moving wall," which means that the most recent years (typically 3-5 years) are not available.
An Internet search engine for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Our link to Google Scholar enables you to see which documents you can access through St. Kate's.
