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Academic Search Complete (1985-present; updated daily; more full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) is a multidisciplinary database that covers nearly all academic areas of study, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language, linguistics, the arts, literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies. It indexes and abstracts over 9,300 journals, many of them peer-reviewed (4,400), and provides full-text for over 5,300 journals. It also includes indexing and abstracts for books, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.

CQ Researcher (1991-present; all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks) is the online version of the CQ Researcher print publication. It provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Each issue discussed includes an abstract, overview, background, current situation, outlook, special focus, chronology, pro/con, bibliography, next step, contacts, and footnotes. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner. It is published by and the user interface is provided by CQ Press, a Division of Congressional Quarterly, Inc. This subscription is limited to 5 simultaneous users.

General OneFile cancelled, see Academic Search Complete.

Literature Resource Center (all full-text; XLinks) provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. It includes online versions of Gale's Contemporay Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selections from Gale's other Literature Criticism and For Students Series, such as Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism and Short Stories for Students. It permits searches by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes. It is produced by Thomson-Gale and the user interface is provided by InfoTrac.

MLA International Bibliography (1926-present; updated 10 times/year; some full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides a classified listing and subject index for books, journal articles, and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association of America and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.

Education Databases

Electronic Books

Ideas for Creative Assignments/Research Paper Alternatives

Columbia Gorge Community College, Oregon
Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Gustavus Aldophus College, Minnesota
Memorial University Libraries, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
San Diego State University Library

Information Fluency

A Maria Muskie Adventure: The Library
Information Fluency Description (PDF)
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Websites

Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
CompPile
Heinemann/Boynton Cook Publisher
National Council for Teachers of English
Poets and Writers Online
Teachers and Writers Collaborative

Resources for Writers

Citing Sources (Duke University)
MLA Style Guide (Ohio State University)
MLA Style Guide (Xavier University)
Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors

Contacts

Alison Morgan, Librarian Liaison to English Department
Assistant Director, Information Resources Center
morgan@xavier.edu, (513) 745-3931

Xavier University English Department

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