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American Literature Research Guide: Books & Ebooks

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Literary Index
Online database indexes literary reference works published in print by Gale Publishing, including several in our Reference Collection: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Drama Criticism & Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center Plus is a comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their literary works, including articles, biographies, and reviews.

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State Library of Ohio
With a library card from the State Library of Ohio, you can request OhioLINK items and pick them up there and return them there, even after graduation.

Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic indexes ebooks from Oxford Scholarship Online, Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Medicine Online, and Oxford Clinical Psychology. Full text is available only for the ebooks from Oxford Scholarship Online.

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