Literature Research Guide

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Literature Resource Center (LRC) This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines, combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more on authors, their works, and literary movements. Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window
Is a historical dictionary. It includes present-day meanings and also the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

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Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
OBO offers a highly authoritative guide to the key literature in a field. UCSC access includes fields of: Anthropology, Cinema & Media Studies, International Relations, Latin American Studies. Find peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies plus links to cutting edge research from books, applicable journals, primary documents, multimedia and web resources.
Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Full-text database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research
SAGE Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Searchable online encyclopedias and handbooks in the social sciences from SAGE Publications -- Encyclopedia of African American Education, Encyclopedia of Perception, Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, Encyclopedia of Drug Policy, 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook ...
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Full-text database of over 200+ dictionaries, language reference works (including thesauruses), and encyclopedias in all subject areas published by Oxford University Press
Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Reference books online. UCSC provides access to the collections for: Archaeology, Business & Management, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

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