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Literature: Finding Sources (Databases, etc)

Suggested Databases

General Periodical Databases (news, magazines, journals, reference)   

Your Borrower ID is your Student Number and your PIN is the month and year of your birth, in MMYY format. 

Academic Search Complete 
The largest at SPC, ASC offers articles across all disciplines. See Tutorial Below 

CQ Researcher
News and views on legislative matters.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Specialized encyclopedias, such as Encyclopedia of Judacia

JSTOR
Connects libraries, researchers, teachers, and students around the world with vital scholarly content in more than 50 disciplines

Newsbank
News (broadcast & print) from across the country and around the globe

Opposing Viewpoints 
Pros and cons on social issues

Literature-Related Periodical Databases

Your Borrower ID is your Student Number and your PIN is the last four digits of your Social Security Number or 9999. 

Literary Reference Center
Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Literature Resources from Gale
Includes over 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children's Literature Review

LitFinder

LitFinder spans history and geography to offer nearly 150,000 poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays representing the work of more than 80,000 authors

Books

Library Catalog
Find print books and other resources in various SPC Libraries.

Your Borrower ID is your Student Number and your PIN is the last four digits of your Social Security Number or 9999.

NetLibrary
Find and read electronic books online across virtually all disciplines. Tutorial

Your Borrower ID is your Student Number and your PIN is the last four digits of your Social Security Number or 9999.

Web

Google Scholar

Perhaps an easier way to search SPC databases. See how to link Google Scholar, when working at home, with SPC databases in the tab above.  Stick to journal articles, not websites, but do NOT pay for an article.  Ask your librarian to help you find it or an alternative. 

Academic Search Complete Tutorial 1

Learn about how to access Academic Search Complete through SPC Library and how to set up a search using Boolean operators, phrase searching, and limiters, such as "Full-text" and "Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journals."

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