Literature
Best Databases
Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. Additional features include an archive of more than 38,000 characters, a timeline of world literature, Harold Bloom's Western Literary Canon, and entries on literary topics, themes, movements, and genres.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences III
Focused on the arts and humanities, this collection contains 150 titles. The collection makes available additional journals in language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.
Literary Index
Master index to the Gale literature series housed in the Library's Reference Department. It combines and cross references authors' names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and sources. To find the books, use the HCC Online Catalog or see posting at each library terminal.
Literature Resource Center and Scribner Writers Series Online
Find up-to-date 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, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writer's Series.
Twentieth Century North American Drama
Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,900 plays from the United States and Canada. In addition to providing a comprehensive full-text resource for students in the performing arts, the collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries. Scholars and students who use the database will have a new way to study the signal events of the twentieth century - including the Depression, the role of women, the Cold War, and more - through the plays and performances of writers who lived through these decades.
General Databases
Academic Search Premier
mobile version. 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.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's English language journals and reference sources. It has extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, & millions of full text articles available in both PDF and HTML.
Films on Demand
Contains over 10,000 academic videos available for streaming. Watch full-length videos or one of the 90,000 video segments grouped by subject: Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics, Health & Medicine. Films on Demand also offers videos about careers.
