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Librarian: Jason Ertz
Office: SRC 3050
Phone: (630) 942-3317
E-mail: ertzja@cod.edu
Can I find any criticism online? Databases
First, try the following databases for articles (not web sites) about your author or short story.
These databases are available on and off-campus. Have your library card handy when accessing the databases from off-campus. You will be asked for your name and library card number before you can search them.
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- One of the largest databases for articles. Full-text (that is, the entire article) from 1980-present.
- Academic Search Premier
- This database gives full-text from 1990-present.
- Literature Resource Center
- Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies and criticism of authors from every age and literary discipline. The Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
- Essay and General Literature Index
- Online database's index covers 1985 to present. Used for identifying essays in book length collections. Print Index covers 1900 to present.
- Magill's On Literature Plus
- Contains critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.
Remember, library staff can assist you in person, by phone, or online with search strategies.
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