Critical responses to the writings of the world's most renowned novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers while providing supplementary biographical context and bibliographic material.
Literature Resource Center is a research-focused literary destination, providing students, academics and researchers authoritative and relevant results on demand.
LitFinder covers world literature and authors throughout history, and contains a wealth of literary works and secondary-source materials, including over 150,000 full-text poems and more than 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
Abounding with countless options for author searches, title searches, biographies, literary criticism, and literary terminology, this resource is ideally suited for our English classes.
A collection of academic journals, letters, images, and other academic resources appropriate for IBDP students.
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An engaging database of contextual information on the world's most influential people. Over 650,000 biographical entries cover a range of historically significant figures and present-day newsmakers.
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Research Database FAQs
What is a Research Database?
A Research Database provides access to reliable, accurate, and credible information from expert resources.
What will I find in a Research Database?
articles from magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals
articles from reference books
primary documents
radio and television transcripts
literature, poetry, plays
literary criticism
groundbreaking scientific research
and the list goes on and on…
Does a Research Database source count as a print resource?
Typically, yes. Even if you are told you “must find a print resource,” you can use the database results because the results are digitised versions of published materials. Just pay attention to the results you find.
What is different between search results in a Research Database and a search engine such as Google?
You will find information on databases that is not freely available on the web.
Any schmuck can publish something on the web and claim to be an expert; a database eliminates the doubt you may have about the expertise or authority of a resource.
