The Yocum Library Online Databases
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| Oxford Reference Library | √ | √ | 100+ subject dictionaries |  |
| Oxford English Dictionary | √ | √ | 600,000+ words | |
| ProQuest's Literature Online on campus / off campus |
√ | √ | literary criticism & poetry videos | |
| Contemporary Authors on campus / off campus |
√ | √ | literary criticism | |
| Litfinder | √ | √ | full text literature | |
| EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier on campus / off campus |
√ | √ | citations, abstracts, & full-text articles from magazines, journals & newspapers | |
| Ethnic News Watch | √ | √ | full-text multicultural articles | |
Book Source Click "Search other resources" tab |
√ | 1600+ popular non-fiction books | |
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| √ | √ | Info on fiction and non-fiction books including reviews, chapter previews, and articles | |
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| √ | √ | Info on children's and teens' fiction and non-fiction books including reviews, chapter previews, and articles | |
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| Tell Me More | √ | √ | Language learning center | |
| Bloom's Literary Reference Online Funded by the Ruth R. Mayer Library Endowment |
√ | √ | Contains author bios, literary criticism, and character info. | |
Search approximately 100 Oxford dictionaries, thesauri, and handbooks covering a variety of topics - the English language, foreign languages, linguistics, quotations, art, architecture, history, literature, mythology, dance, music, theater, biography, psychology, sociology, political science, religion, business, law, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computing, environment, nutrition, medicine, and nursing.
Search the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 and 1997. The OED is currently being revised, with the aim of producing a completely updated third edition by the year 2010.
Search more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 192 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources, including 62 new and revised biographies, 10 new full-text journals, new releases of African Writers Series and Twentieth-Century Drama, additional Shakespeare editions, and more.
Search 100,000+ modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Featured are current writers, the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th Century and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States.
thousands of full-text poems, plays, stories, essays, and speeches that are searchable by title, author, keyword, line, character, etc. Spanish language texts with English translations are included.
Search newspaper, magazine, and journal articles. Databases include Academic Search Premier, Master File Premier, Newspaper Source, Health Source, CINAHL, Business Source Premier, ERIC, Professional Collection, Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection, Religion & Philosophy Collection, Sociological Collection, Vocational & Career Collection, and Military & Government Collection.
Search hundreds of full text ethnic magazines, journals, and newspapers. including Arab American News, Cherokee Advocate, Irish Voice, The Italian Voice, Jewish Press, Korea Times, La Prensa, Navajo Times, Polish American Journals, The Ukranian Weekly, Black Issues in Higher Education, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Race, Gender, & Class, Biracial Child, Filipinas Magazine, German Life, Hinduism Today, Hispanic Times, etc.
Search full text and informative abstracts for more than 1,600 popular nonfiction books found in school and public libraries, including full text articles on literature, social studies, history, and science as well as career information, health, sports, adventure, and technology.
Information on more than 200,000 titles, including over 60,000 nonfiction titles. Reading lists covering all genres and reading levels for fiction and nonfiction titles, as well as ongoing tracking of over 500 awards lists. Continued coverage of thousands of adult and juvenile, fiction and nonfiction series. Features such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles.
These titles include fiction, narrative nonfiction, as well as those critical nonfiction titles tied to curricular standards and requirements. Also focused on titles that will appeal to boys hoping to provide solutions addressing the concern that boys are not reading.
Includes English, Dutch, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Latin American Spanish instruction."
Browse each content category for more specific results by time period within American, British, and world literature; by author type, including Novelists, Poets, and Short Story Writers; by literary genre, including Drama, Essays and Speeches, and Science Fiction; by nationality for all authors; and by an A-to-Z list. Author biographies link users to a list of major works, and works are linked to a list of principal characters.