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The following
links will lead you to online databases to which the library subscribes. These
databases are unfortunately available ONLY from within one of the East Central
Georgia Regional libraries. Please come into one of our libraries
to use these online databases.
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Facts
on File Personal & Business Forms
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Facts
on File Landmark Documents of American History
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Facts
on File Science Experiments On-line
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Facts
on File Science Online
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Augusta
Chronicle Archives
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Gale
Literature Resource Center , including:
Key content
elements of LRC as of October, 2005:
- Contemporary Authors through the current volume, featuring
biographies on more than 122,000 authors
- Contemporary Authors New Revision Series through the current
volume, featuring updated biographies on prominent contemporary authors
- Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, offering selected
criticism through volume 210 of the print series
- Dictionary of Literary Biography, all biographies through
volume 314 of the print series
- More than 59,000 full-text articles and excerpts from critical
essays originally appearing in:
- Children's Literature Review
- Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
- Drama Criticism
- Drama for Students
- Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
- Literature of Developing Nations for Students
- Literature and Its Times
- Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
- Novels for Students
- Poetry Criticism
- Poetry for Students
- Shakespearean Criticism
- Short Stories for Students
- Short Story Criticism
- Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
- More than 1.7 million bibliographic citations from 1963 to the
present from the Modern Language Association (MLA)
International Bibliography and over 5,800 records from the
Directory of Periodicals (for subscribers to the MLA module).
- Integrated content from Macmillan Library Reference (for subscribers
to the Macmillan modules), including: The Scribner Writer Series
(African American Writers, African Writers, American Nature Writers,
American Writers, Ancient Writers, The Books of the Bible, British
Writers, European Writers, Latin American Writers, Modern American Women
Writers, Science Fiction Writers, Supernatural Writers, Writers for
Children and Writers for Young Adults) and The Twayne
Authors Series (600 monographs from the Twayne's US Authors,
Twayne's English Authors, Twayne's World Authors series)
- Access to full text articles and abstracts published in more than
260 academic literary journals
- 5000+ Work Overviews, consisting of plot summaries and explications
of prominent works
- 5100 Websites, guiding the user to useful Internet resources on
authors and their works
- 2300 Author Portraits
- Access to more than 6500 timeline events designed as an
interdisciplinary tool to provide social and historical context for the
study of literature.
- Guide to Conducting Literary Research, instructing the user how to
create an MLA-style literary research paper
LRC
also provides the following features through strategic partnerships:
- Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature (EOL) for all
subscribers. Comprises over 10,000 descriptive entries for authors,
works, literary landmarks, literary and critical terms, mythological and
folkloric figures, fictional characters, literary movements, and prizes.
Don't forget the largest database resource that we have :
GALILEO!
Galileo is available from your home or office with a password.
Please come to a library to obtain a password
in person. Galileo passwords cannot be given out over the telephone or
in email. Passwords are changed quarterly.
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