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Academic OneFile [GaleGroup] Includes many mainstream and specialized sources to support research across virtually all academic disciplines plus many peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML or PDF format. Also includes the text from the New York Times newspaper back to 1995. The content of database Expanded Academic ASAP, formerly a separate database, is in this database.

Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] Contains indexing for 9,810 publications, with full text for more than 5,300 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1865 are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Complete contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.

Expanded Academic ASAP [GaleGroup] is now included in the database Academic OneFIle.

Gale Virtual Reference Library[GaleGroup] Full text eBook editions of 27 reference works published by Gale Research, Charles Scribner's Sons, MacMillan Reference, and their divisions. Includes Gale Reference's popular series: Drama for Students, Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, and Short Stories for Students plus important reference works such as The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. For complete holdings, please search the library catalog by Author for Gale Virtual Reference.

JSTOR [JSTOR] A searchable, printable, electronic backfile of important scholarly journals delivering in high quality images of journal articles in PDF format. Coverage usually stops from 2 to 5 years prior to the current year depending on the "moving wall" agreed to by each journal's publisher. Subjects included in SAC's subscription: African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, & Statistics. Some journals are indexed in America: History and Life with links to the full-text article in JSTOR.

Literary Index [GaleGroup] This is an index to the printed volumes in Gale's series on authors and their works. The series include Contemporary Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, etc. Not full-text. Most users should begin their search with the Literature Resource Center which is also published by Gale. WARNING! Use Internet Explorer if you wish to print from this database. Netscape Navigator 6.2 prints many blank pages.

Literature Criticism Online [GaleGroup] The 10 individual Thomson Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. The 10 series included are: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review. Users may browse the database by author or by title, or, may search by author, title, or a variety of criteria.

Literature Online [ProQuest] Database of literary criticism, reference sources, biographies, and literature. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, the full text of over 350,000 works of English and American literature, the complete full text of 100 literature journals, and links to literature journals in the JSTOR collections.

Literature Resource Center [GaleGroup] Provides online access to bibliographies and to full-text biographies and critical analyses of over 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Searchable by author, title, literary genre, literary movement, or literary theme. Includes Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.

Magill on Literature [EBSCO] Provides brief summaries of literary works, critical essays and reviews, literary characters, and biographies of authors. Includes the complete Magill's Masterplots and Masterplots II series plus: Magill's Literary Annuals, The Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill Book Reviews, and The Cyclopedia of World Authors and Magill's Guide to Scienc Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Full-text keyword searches may be limited by: title, author, genre, locale, and character.

MLA International Bibliography [EBSCO] Covers from 1926 to present and includes over 1,200,000 bibliographic citations for scholarly, critical materials on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Indexes over 3500 internationally published journals, books, etc. The full text of many articles is available in EBSCO's databases and through links to full text in the JSTOR and Project MUSE collections.

Project Muse [Johns Hopkins Univ. Press] Full text of articles from over 200 scholarly journals published by over 20 not-for-profit, scholarly presses in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Search across the entire database or limit a search to selected journals. Provides current issues for some titles in JSTOR.

Literature

Book Review Digest [H.W. Wilson Co.] Bibliographic citations to reviews plus selected excerpts from reviews of current English language fiction and non-fiction for children and adults from approximately 90 magazines. Begins 01/1983.

Book Review Index Online Plus Full Text [Gale/InfoTrac] A comprehensive online guide to book reviews of which many have full-text links. Coverage: 1965- .

Bowker's Books in Print [R.R. Bowker Co.] Find title, author, ISBN number ( a unique number for the book) and publisher information for over 3.4 million books, along with 600,000 full text reviews of many of these books. Give the information to a librarian for easy ordering for their collection or through interlibrary loan. One can also search by "Children's Room" to find age and reading level specific books, cassettes and videos; or search "In the Media," which allows one to browse titles mentioned on such popular media as Oprah Book Club, Today Show, and National Public Radio.

Journal Locator for the San Antonio College Library [Serials Solutions] Used to determine which database includes full text articles from a particular magazine, journal, or newspaper. Titles and information are based on the Library's subscriptions to databases with full text articles and the periodical holdings of the Library. Includes the beginning and ending dates of full text coverage and a link to the database.

LitFinder [GaleGroup] Searchable database of the full text (in English) of poems, plays, short stories, essays, and speeches not limited by time period or nationality. For entries that do not include full text, the database provides indexing and bibliographic information from published literary anthologies. Brief explications are included for well known works. A glossary of literary terms is also included.

NetLibrary [OCLC] Electronic books available through netLibrary and provided by TexShare. Titles may be checked out for 24 hours. Off-campus access: Current SAC students, faculty, and staff must click on the "Create an account" link after entering netLibrary in order to search for and check out eBooks. Other individuals must "Create an account" from a publicly accessible computer at the SAC Library or any other TexShare library in order to have access. After this free, confidential account is created, all users can then login and access eBooks directly at http://www.netlibrary.com.

Oxford English Dictionary Online [Oxford UP] Contains the text of the Second Edition together with the Additions Series. Also available is the New (Third) Edition which is currently in production.

Serials Directory [EBSCO] Provides up to date bibliographic and subscription information on over 182,500 periodicals and newspapers published in the U.S. and overseas.

Union List of Periodicals [OCLC] Search for periodicals by location to find magazines and journals in libraries close to your area. Includes more than 7 million listings linked to over 750,000 bibliographic records in WorldCat (the OCLC online union catalog).

World Cat [OCLC] The world's largest database of bibliographic information, OCLC's online union catalog, is culled from the shared records of libraries from all over the world. Over 43 million records, in over 400 languages, that contain holdings information, and other information vital to collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.