General Reference Guide

Includes access to: Contemporary Literary Criticism - Covers authors who are currently active or who died after 12/31/59. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism - Covers commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed poets, novelists, short story writers, dramatists and philosophers who died between 1800 and 1899. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism - Includes criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999.

Includes scholarly journals, book reviews, and magazine articles on a wide range of literary topics as well as author biographies.

CLCD has information about children's and young adult books including book reviews, reading measurement scores, and links to curriculum resources.

This comprehensive and critically acclaimed series covers more than 12,000 authors, illustrators and others in children's and young adult literature.

The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition. It is the most comprehensive English language dictionary.

LLBA covers research in linguistics, language, and the pathology of speech, language, and hearing. It consists of over 318,000 bibliographic records with abstracts to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reviews of books and other media. Over 1,200 journals from 50 countries, with articles in 30 languages, are indexed. 1973 to present