GUIDE TO
LIBRARY
RESOURCES
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HILL
COLLEGE
LIBRARY
LIBRARY RESOURCES
BOOKS
Search the library OPAC (Online Public
Access Catalog).
Go to: http://www.hillcollege.edu/library
Click on “Card Catalog/OPAC” and type your
query into the search box.
JOURNALS and Ebooks
Search the library databases and electronic
books:
Go to: http://www.hillcollege.edu/library
Click on “Databases”.
If you are on-campus, click on the desired
database link.
If you are off-campus, click on “please click
here” in the red rectangle and log in.
Students: Your user name is your
firstname.lastname. Your password is your last
name (using the correct capitalization) and the
last 4 digits of your student ID number.
Faculty/Staff: Your user name is the fir st
section of your email address. Your password
is the same as the one used for your Hill
College email account.
If your login information does not work,
contact one of the campus libraries.
After log in, choose the desired database and
type your query into the search box. Use
additional options (full-text articles, peer
reviewed, date ranges and options
for searching specific journals) to
narrow your results.
DATABASES
BLOOM’S LITERARY REFERENCE
Examines great writers, works, characters, movements and
events in world literature; includes numerous literary
criticisms.
Ebooks on EBSCOhost
Access to thousands of electronic books covering many
topics.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Blue Book of Grammar
http://www.grammarbook.com
Complete Shakespeare Reader (Download)
All 38 Shakespeare Plays
http://download.cnet.com/The-Complete-Shakespeare-Reader/300018495_4-10908984.html
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.mit.edu
EBSCO GROUP
Multi-disciplinary databases with sections on literature.
Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
http://www.symbols.com
EBRARY
Access to over 118,000 ebooks covering numerous topics.
Titles may be downloaded.
Library of Congress
Sources for literature, poetry, journalism.
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
GALE GROUP
Sources for Literature, sections on contemporary authors,
literary criticisms, Twayne Author’s Series, Scribner
Writers Series and the Literature Research Center.
LITERARY REFERENCE CENTER (EBSCO)
Information regarding authors, works, characters,
movements and events in world literature. Includes the
“Critical Insights” Series.
PLAY INDEX (EBCO)
Covers over 30,000 plays written from antiquity to the
present and published from 1949 to the present..
SALEM PRESS LITERATURE
Literature resources, critical insights on works and authors,
critical surveys on long fiction
The Literary Encyclopedia
http://www.litencyc.com
Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes (Library of Congress)
Find books and poems without knowing the title or author.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost
Luminarium (Anthology of English Literature)
http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
Merriam-Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus
http://www.merriam-webster.com
Perspectives in American Literature (PAL)
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML
Perseus Digital Library (Ancient Texts)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/
SHORT STORY INDEX (EBSCO)
Index of all the important collections and anthologies of
short stories that are published each year. All literary genres
are covered.
Purdue OWL
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl
SIRS RENIASSANCE
Literature section including sources for biographies, drama,
fiction, literary classics, poetry, publishing, world literature,
writing and more.
Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
STUDENT RESEARCH CENTER (EBSCO)
Features an English and Language Arts section offering
resources for Authors, Literature, Folklore and Myths,
Literary Criticisms, Plays, Poetry. Also includes a
dictionary and encyclopedia.
WRITER’S REFERENCE CENTER
Covers the fundamentals of quality writing and provides
word tools including a dictionary and thesaurus.
Reading Women Writers & African Literature
http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/FEMEChomeEN.html
SF Site (Science Fiction/Fantasy)
http://www.sfsite.com
Ultralingua-Definitions and World Translations
http://www.ultralingua.com/onlinedictionary/
Wordnik-Definitions/Pronunciations/Word Etymology
http://www.wordnik.com
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