NEW Literary Resources at Panitza Library

All these vendor-specific literary databases are being trialed for the 2-month period through December 18^th, 2010:

• Gale:

  • MLA International Bibliography - for sheer depth and scope of bibliographic data. Contains more than 2 million citations to journal articles, books and dissertations cover more than 80 years of publishing.

  • Literature Resource Center - is the world's most current, comprehensive and reliable, online literature resource with more than 850,000 full-text articles, critical essays, reviews and broadcast transcripts, as well as biographical coverage of more than 135,000 authors.

  • Literature Criticism Online - this collection brings together 10 of the most acclaimed literary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.

To access Gale databases, please visit http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/aubg 

• ProQuest:

  • MLA International Bibliography (via ProQuest)

  • Literature Online - a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 315 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. Literature Online, a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English

To access ProQuest databases, please visit http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/  

• EBSCO:

  • MLA International Bibliography (via EBSCO) - offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.

  • Literary Reference Center - is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

  • Literary Reference Center Plus - contains everything in Literary Reference Center, plus the following: over 1,220 Additional Full-Text Literary Reference Books/Works; over 170 Additional Full-Text Literary Journals & Magazines; 35 Volumes of New Contemporary Literature Titles from Salem Press; 40 Full-Text Literary Study Guides; 72 Literary Videos.

To access EBSCO’s databases, please go to http://www.aubg.bg/library/ and choose Online databases – EBSCO Host databases.

• Chronicle of Higher Education

Trial access to the Chronicle of Higher Education online is also being made available to our institution until February 1, 2011. To access, please visit http://chronicle.com .

If you are experiencing log in difficulties, or have questions regarding the databases, please contact Nikolina Ivanova-Bell at nbell@aubg.bg or ext.340. Your feedback will be highly appreciated. We strongly believe that access to this high-standard literary content would offer you quality information for your research.