Online Databases
InfoTrac
More than twenty partially and totally full-text databases covering general, business, and health-related periodicals, and newspapers. It includes both scholarly journals and general interest magazines.
OCLC FirstSearch
Twenty-seven databases in many subject areas, one of which, WilsonSelect Plus, is totally full text.
Marquis Who’s Who
Biographies of individuals who have appeared in Who’s Who volumes since 1985. Also includes Who Was Who in America.
NoveList
This is a reader’s advisory resource which helps to find the next best fiction book to read. Search by author, title, series, or plots. Browse lists of award winners, lists of genres, and lists based on age.
HarpWeek
Full text of Harper’s Weekly, a leading American illustrated newspaper, from 1857-1889.
Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings
Languages & Literatures
Print Resources
Library Catalog
Library of Congress Call Number Range for Language and Literature = P
Oxford English Dictionary – Reference Section PE1625 .M97
Oxford Dictionary of Slang – Reference Section PE 3721 .O94 1998
Masterplots (various) – Reference Section PN44 .M
Literary Criticism (various) – Reference Section PN99.H57 G4, PN 771 .C59, PN 771 .G27
Poetry Criticism – Reference Section PN 1010 .P499
Short Story Criticism – Reference Section PN 3373 .S56
Famous Quotations (various) – Reference Section PN 6080, PN 6081
Oxford Companion to Shakespeare – Reference Section PR 2892 .O94 2001
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the U.S. – Reference Section PS 147 .O94 1995
Contemporary Authors – Reference Biography Section Z 1224 .C68
Internet Resources
Language
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Global Language Monitor
iLove Languages: Your Guide to Languages on the Web
Modern Language Association language map
Language and Linguistics Resources (Internet Public Library)
American Literature
American Rhetoric
Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
Poetry Society of America
Poets.org from the Academy of American Poets
Literature Resources (Internet Public Library)
Literary Resources on the Net
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
British Literature
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
The English Renaissance in context
Literature Resources (Internet Public Library)
Literary Resources on the Net
Luminarium: Medieval - 17th Century English Literature
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
The Shakespeare Web
Surfing with the Bard
World Literature
Aesopica.net: Aesop’s Fables Online
African literature and writers on the Internet
Contemporary postcolonial & postimperial literature in English
Literature Resources (Internet Public Library)
Literary Resources on the Net
Princeton Dante Project
Librarian contact information
Charles Hanson, Ph.D
Director, Library Services
810-762-7812
chanson@kettering.edu
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