Full-text access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic, and social history, philosophy, and literature of selected countries and subjects. Continually updated with new volumes taken from the print series as soon as they become available.
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Combines the core Gale Group literary databases: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Complements Literature Criticism Online.
African American literature; African literature; American Indian literature; American literature; Asian American literature; Authors; Bibliograpy; Biographies; Biography; Black literature; Book reviews; Chicano literature; English literature; Eurpean literature; French literature; Italian literature; German literature; Latin American literature; Mexican American literature; Native American literature; Western literature; LRC; literature resource center
African American literature; African literature; American Indian literature; American literature; Asian American literature; Authors; Bibliograpy; Biographies; Biography; Black literature; Book reviews; Chicano literature; English literature; Eurpean literature; French literature; Italian literature; German literature; Latin American literature; Mexican American literature; Native American literature; Western literature; LRC
Oxford Handbooks, now a part of Oxford Academic, provide review articles which summarize and analyze current research and trends in a given discipline. UCLA subscribes to most Oxford Handbooks Online, excluding a few individual titles.
Spans 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. UC subscription allows limited simultaneous users, so if you can't connect try again later.
Handbooks covering a wide range of humanities, social sciences, psychology and some science topics, published by Routledge, Ashgate and other imprints. Some CRC Press handbooks can also be accessed via this particular site.
A reference source that covers multiple aspects of the international theater, including full text of major reference materials and records for individual plays, people, theaters, productions, and production companies. Also includes images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other ephemera. Formerly titled North American Theatre Online.
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