Provides full text information on thousands of authors and their works including: study guides; plot summaries; articles of literary criticism; full text of literary journals; and author biographies.
Biography Reference BankThis link opens in a new windowBiography Reference Bank provides biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. BRB offers substantive narrative profiles, each about 2,000 words long, from H.W. Wilson publications and other respected publishers. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images. Daily updates provide up-to-the-minute coverage of newsmakers. Full-text articles, abstracts, and images gleaned from thousands of magazines and journals cover new names and expand on existing profiles. Book review excerpts and full text reviews help users find and select print biographies. [OhioLINK]
A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses)This link opens in a new windowDescriptions of doctoral dissertations and master's theses some of which may be available through traditional interlibrary loan:http://www.rio.edu/library/Interlibrary-Loan-Request.cfm