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Helpful eReference Titles

Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 by Jelena O. Krstovic, Project Editor
ISBN: 9781414431703
Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters
ISBN: 0550101276
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century by Edited by Eric L. Haralson
ISBN: 1579582400
Reference Guide to Short Fiction, 2nd Edition by Thomas Riggs, Editor
ISBN: 9781558622227
Shakespeare for Students, 2nd Edition by Anne Marie Hacht, Editor
ISBN: 9781414412559

How To Access Online Databases Off-Campus

Off-campus access is only available to ASU-Beebe students, faculty, and staff. To access the online databases off-campus, just enter the same credentials that you would use to login to your ASU-Beebe email. From there, it should take you to the online database that you chose. If you are having problems with accessing the databases, contact the library at circ@asub.edu or rsruss@asub.edu.

Article and Reference Sources

The following links will take you to indexes for articles as well as background information in literature and related resources. You might want to start out with an online reference source first and then go into more detail with the online journals articles.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Some of the helpful titles include the "For Students" series, British Writers, and Reference Guide to Short Fiction, among others.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I - V Archive Collection
JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. These collections contain over 500 journal tiles dating back to its inception through the last three to five years. Links to more current issues of a journal title are provided where available.
Literature Criticism Online
Contains the full text of the following criticism anthologies: Short Story Criticism, Poetry Criticism, and Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism.

ProQuest One Literature
One Literature includes everything in LION plus 150,000+ additional primary sources, 20,000 eBooks, and expanded resources on modern and diverse authors. This is a great resource for upper primary grades and college students doing any sort of literary criticism or report on an author or literary movement. This database is administered by the Traveler project with funds provided in part from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Oxford English Dictionary Online
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world. This database is administered by the Traveler project with funds provided in part from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Salem Literature
Contains the full text of the 2012 Magill Literary Annual and selected Critical Insights books.

MLA Citation Guide

Citing Sources Using MLA
Overview of MLA Style. Works cited and in-text citation examples are provided. Just use tabs at the top of the screen.