Literature databases for NSU patrons

Top Picks

1. 1. Gale Literature (formerly Gale Literary Sources)Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
   This searchable database has a comprehensive collection of literature criticism, biographies, analysis, citations and more from the entire suite of Gale Literary products. The criticism covers all varieties of literature from the 1400s through the current.
   This database is no longer available off campus for the public. Please visit the NSU Alvin Sherman Library in person if you need to access it.
   
2. 2. Essay & General Literature (H.W. Wilson)Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - EBSCOhost
   Citations for essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works. Also provides full citations on collective titles indexed. Emphasis on the humanities and social sciences.
   
   
3. 3. Gale Literature Criticism (formerly Literature Criticism Online)Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
   Presents a wide range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Includes criticism of drama, short stories, Shakespeare, classics, children's literature, and Western literature from the 1400's to the present.
   This database is no longer available off campus for the public. Please visit the NSU Alvin Sherman Library in person if you need to access it.
   
4. 4. Gale Literature Resource Center (formerly Literature Resource Center)Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
   Full-text database that provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every time period and literary discipline. Also includes overviews of major literary works. Teacher resources available.
   This database is no longer available off campus for the public. Please visit the NSU Alvin Sherman Library in person if you need to access it.
   

Also Recommended

1. 1. Alexander Street LiteratureLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Cross-searchable collection of databases containing literature, drama, and primary texts in postcolonial, black, gender, and regional literatures. It contains more than 3,900 plays and more than 450,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and essays from Africa and its Diaspora, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and other regions.
   
   
2. 2. American Film Scripts OnlineLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Provides accurate and authorized versions of 1008 copyrighted screenplays. Titles include Bringing Up Baby, Network, In the Company of Men, Drugstore Cowboy, Marty, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Thomas Crown Affair, Suspicion, The Shawshank Redemption, Fort Apache, Notorious, and The Last Detail.
   
   
3. 3. Asian American DramaLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
   
   
4. 4. Black DramaLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
   
   
5. 5. Black Short Fiction and FolkloreLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Black Short Fiction is the most comprehensive collection yet created of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. When complete, it will offer more than 8,000 short stories and folktales, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life.
   
   
6. 6. Black Thought & CultureLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.
   
   
7. 7. Black Women WritersLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Black Women Writers celebrates the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora. Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries, the database gives an unparalleled view of black women's struggles through time.
   
   
8. 8. Cambridge CoreLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - Cambridge University Press
   Cambridge Core includes ALL content from Cambridge Journals Online and Cambridge Books Online under one unified site. E-books include subjects in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Computer Sciences, and Sciences. E-books are presented in full image PDF using Adobe Reader and are supported by all popular browsers for viewing. The Cambridge Core also hosts the NSU Libraries full text journal subscriptions of almost 350 titles.
   
   
9. 9. Caribbean LiteratureLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Presents fiction and poetry of hundreds of authors in their original language. Also includes manuscripts, archival materials, interviews, photographs, and audio files.
   
   
10. 10. Chicago Manual of Style OnlineLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - University of Chicago Press
    Chicago Manual of Style Online provides full-text access to the guide's 17th edition. Aside from the full-text, the site contains an extensive FAQ section and additional tools, such as sample letters to editors and a citation quick guide.
    
    
11. 11. Ebook CentralLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - ProQuest
    Ebook Central is the new platform for accessing the NSU Libraries EBL e-books and former MyiLibrary ebook collections. Subject content includes Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Health & Medicine. E-books are downloadable for offline reading in both PDF and EPUB or can be read online with the e-book viewer.
    
    
12. 12. eBook CollectionLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - EBSCOhost
    Ebsco eBook Collection provides full-text e-books and e-audio books in all subject areas. Current collection includes over 50,000 titles. Find e-books and e-audio in all subject areas and over 90 percent of the titles are downloadable. Many titles in this collection are shared with other institutions and have single-use access. Need help downloading ebooks? Try this guide!
    
    
13. 13. Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography (formerly Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online)Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Over 16,000 biographical and critical essays on predominantly American and British authors from all eras and genres.
    This database is no longer available off campus for the public. Please visit the NSU Alvin Sherman Library in person if you need to access it.
    
14. 14. Gale Literature: LitFinder - Florida Electronic Library Resource (formerly LitFinder)Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Gale Cengage Learning
    International in scope, LitFinder covers all time periods and contains a wealth of primary literature content. This includes approximately 140,000 full-text poems, 800,000 poem citations and excerpts, 7,100 full-text short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays, 2,000 full-text speeches and 1,700 full-text plays. It also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary.
    
    
15. 15. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic PeriodLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842.
    
    
16. 16. JSTORLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - JSTOR
    Full-text articles from scholarly journals are available (from Volume 1 to issues published 2-5 years ago) in the arts, business, humanities, literature, social sciences, general science, mathematics and statistics
    To view full-text PDF articles, you must allow popups for this site.
    
17. 17. KanopyLocal access only for NSU. Remote access only for NSU. - Kanopy
    Kanopy is a video streaming database featuring more than 60,000 films. Subjects covered in our collection include the Arts, Business, Education, Global Studies & Language, Media & Communications, and the Social Sciences. Films range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, classics and blockbuster movies. Download the Kanopy app from the Apple App Store or Google Play store. Users must create an account to use as a login for the mobile app.
    
    
18. 18. Latin American Woman WritersLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    Latin American Women Writers is an extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included are essays by Latin American feminists and revolutionaries, who address both the universal concerns of women in every age and the distinctive issues of their struggles in the region.
    
    
19. 19. Latino LiteratureLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    Latino Literature includes over 100,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, novels, and more than 450 plays written by authors of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, and South American descent living in the United States. The majority of works are in English, but approximately 25% of the collection is presented in Spanish. It also includes more than 6,000 pages of bilingual text and many Spanglish works.
    
    
20. 20. Literary IndexLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Master index to Gale series on literary biography and literary criticism. It indexes author names and titles, and provides citations to the print series.
    This database is no longer available off campus for the public. Please visit the NSU Alvin Sherman Library in person if you need to access it.
    
21. 21. Literature (Oxford Scholarship Online)Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Oxford University Press
    Full-text of books covering all areas of literature searchable by book or chapter. The coverage begins with 16th century, to American Colonial, Drama, Film, Media, Poetry, Shakespeare, and much more.
    
    
22. 22. New York Times, The (Online)Local access only for NSU. Remote access only for NSU. - The New York Times
    Online version of The New York Times includes all articles, features, interviews, columns, obituaries, audio/video/images, and multimedia since site was launched in 1996 (no crosswords). Also includes some content from 1851 to the present and content from pre-1981 is growing. The New York Times is a critical source of journalism for politics, finance, health, science, the arts, sports, and fashion in the U.S. and abroad. Mobile apps available for multiple devices, including Apple, Android, Kindle, Windows, and Blackberry. Personal registration required for using resource. After registration please return to login page and enter your account username/password. For help using New York Times on mobile devices see this guide!
    *Some user accounts are currently experiencing technical difficulties during this time. If you have already created a user account for The New York Times, please access this resource by going to nytimes.com and using your associated credentials to log in. If you do not have an account please go into the database first and create an account and then go to nytimes.com and log in there to access.
    
23. 23. North American Indian DramaLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    This first release of North American Indian Drama contains 93 plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes the Native Playwrights' Newsletter, a unique resource, containing a wealth of original essays, articles, photographs, interviews, reviews, and production information related to the plays.
    
    
24. 24. North American Theatre OnlineLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    Provides in-depth detail records for more than 10,000 plays, including many previously unpublished works by major authors; more than 1,000 playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical ephemera; and 40,000-plus pages of in-copyright reference texts.
    
    
25. 25. North American Women's DramaLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    This edition of North American Women's Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
    
    
26. 26. Oxford Scholarship OnlineLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Oxford University Press
    Full text of over 4,264 Oxford books in Political Science, Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Public Health and Epidemiology, and Religion. Provides keywords, abstracts and full text at both book and chapter level, as well as relevant journal abstracts.
    
    
27. 27. Project MuseLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Johns Hopkins University Press
    Full-text ebooks and journals from scholarly journals and publishers in the humanities and social sciences, including arts, history, literature, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more. All ebooks and journals are fully integrated for search and discovery.
    
    
28. 28. Salem PressLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - Salem Press
    Salem Press provides ebooks for broad informational and educational purposes only. Readers will discover a wealth of information in the following subjects: history, health, environmental sciences, and literature. Find critical reviews for fiction, primary source documents from History and biographies. The platform includes access to Magill's Literary Annual from 1977 to present.
    
    
29. 29. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic PeriodLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    In addition to 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, the database includes extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays specially commissioned for the project.
    
    
30. 30. South and Southeast Asian LiteratureLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    South and Southeast Asian Literature is a searchable collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas. Focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras, the collection will also feature author interviews and manuscript materials that will shed additional light on the rich literary heritage and emerging traditions of this region.
    
    
31. 31. Theatre in VideoLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    Contains performances of the world's leading plays and more than 100 film documentaries.
    
    
32. 32. Twentieth Century North American DramaLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    This edition of Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,386 plays by 209 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
    
    
33. 33. University of California Press JournalsLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - University of California Press
    University of California Press Journals contains access to 31 peer reviewed publications covering humanities and the social sciences.
    
    

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