Something About the Author Online covers the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. Entries typically cover: personal life, career, writings, works in progress, adaptations, and additional sources.
Corresponds to the printed Something About the Author, the main series, and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series: more than 210 volumes; over 19,000 entries; and nearly 17,000 images.
Gale Literary Sources provides combined access to Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism Online and to Something About the Author Online.
Artemis Literary Sources provides information on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines. The following series are included in this database:
Children's Literature Review Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Contemporary Literary Criticism Drama Criticism Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Poetry Criticism Shakespearean Criticism Short Story Criticism Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Coverage: 1400's-present
MLA covers folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature. Provides over one million citations for items from more than 4,400 journals and series published worldwide. Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, bibliographies, and websites.
NoveList provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 250,000 fiction titles, and 50,000 non-fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.
CLCD is an academic and research resource for courses needing to locate children’s and young adult books and other media.
Reviews come from 36 review sources, including Children's Literature; The Horn Book Magazine; Kirkus; Media & Methods; and Parent's Guide. CLCD includes over one million fiction/non-fiction titles, hundreds of thousands of awards and professional reviews including author/title links, lesson plans and teaching guides. The search engine offers multiple options including 50 search filters for finding materials to determine interest and reading levels, selecting trade books based on standards, creating thematic and annotated biographies, interpreting reviews, developing classroom collections, book challenges and collection development.
Project Muse provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is in the following areas: Classics; Cultural Studies; Economics; Education; Film, Theater and Performing Arts; History; Judaic Studies; Language; Law; Literature; Math; Music; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy and Science; and Politics.
Coverage: 1996-present
Education Source provides full text access for more than 1,800 journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for thousands more. Also including are full text for 550 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. Education Source is an upgrade from Education Research Complete.
Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Source also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
Index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books.
Coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Searches over 13,000 journals covering a wide array of academic disciplines including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies.
VOYA magazine is the leading library journal dedicated to the promotion of young adult literature and reading. VOYA reviews over 350 new books in each publication and provides articles related to young adult readers.
