Pop culture is all around us and influences our lives every day. For any social sciences, history, art, or liberal arts researcher, the Popular Culture Collection provides useful information from over two million articles found in over 100 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily, including:
Advertising Age, American Theatre, Billboard,
Cosmopolitan, Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter,
Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society,
Macleans, Newsweek, Vogue, and more.
Literary Reference Center (EBSCO) Grades 9 - 12
Provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.
Includes: Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham’s Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, and much more.
Literature Resource Center (Gale) Grades 9 - 12
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. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
Novelist (EBSCO 2011) Grades 9 - 10
Looking for something new to read? Novelist is a database that allows users to search for novels based on level, subject, title. Novelist provides access to reviews for 120,000 works of fiction and in addition. NoveList recommends books based on titles the user has already enjoyed.