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Vendor	EBSCOhost
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=mzh
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Description	MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920's and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text. (from MLA Ebsco)
Subjects	Arts and Humanities Literature
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If Other: Name	Lund University Libraries
url	http://www.doaj.org/
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Description	DOAJ is a directory of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages
Subjects	Arts and Humanities Education General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Health Sciences Life Sciences Literature Physical Sciences and Mathematics Social Sciences Technology and Computing
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=brd
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Description	Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews. Every book in Book Review Digest Plus appears with all of its reviews together. A single book can have as little as one review citation and as much as a descriptive summary and many reviews with excerpts and full text, depending upon the coverage the book received in the reviewing literature. The database includes children’s books as well as books for adults and young adults.
Subjects	Education Literature Reference, Almanacs, Encyclopedias
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=hft
Coverage Begins	1984
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Description	The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more. Subjects Covered: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology.
Subjects	Alaskan Issues Arts and Humanities General and Multidisciplinary Literature Social Sciences
Recommended	Arts and Humanities
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Vendor	EBSCOhost
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=ofm
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Description	Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full text) that is contained in these six Wilson databases: Education Full Text; General Science Full Text; Humanities Full Text; Readers' Guide Full Text; Social Sciences Full Text; Wilson Business Full Text Note: Indexing and abstracting for all articles in journals covered by these six databases, whether or not they include full text, is included in OmniFile.
Subjects	Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Life Sciences Literature Social Sciences
Recommended	General and Multidisciplinary
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=egi
Coverage Begins	1985
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Description	Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.
Subjects	Arts and Humanities General and Multidisciplinary Literature Social Sciences
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Vendor	Gale Group
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://find.galegroup.com/menu/start?prod=LCO&userGroupName=june77027
Coverage Begins	1976
Coverage Ends	present
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Description	Critical entries on major works in childrens' literature. Search-able by author, works, and subject. Browse the authors, titles, or subjects with entries such as "Hawaiian Children's Literature", or "Evolution of Fairy Tales", or "The Influence of Disney on Children's Literature". Scanned full text entries may be printed or emailed.
Subjects	Education Literature
Recommended	Literature
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If Other: Name	Tutor.com
url	http://sled.alaska.edu/homework.html
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Description	Free Tutoring for Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Grades K-12, College Intro and Adult Learners. Requires a PC or Mac and internet access, compatible with a variety of browsers, may require an Alaska password available as a service to Alaskan students in grades K-12 and intro-level college students, offered seven days a week from 1 PM to 10 PM Alaska Time requires Flash on your computer with pop-up blockers turned off.
Subjects	Alaskan Issues Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Health Sciences Life Sciences Literature Physical Sciences and Mathematics Social Sciences Technology and Computing
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If Other: Name	OverDrive Digital Library
url	http://listenalaska.lib.overdrive.com/
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License Detail	Alaska Library Network
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Description	ListenAlaska Digital Catalog has the following for download: Kindle Books, Adobe EPUB eBooks, Adobe PDF eBooks, OverDrive WMA Audiobooks, OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks, OverDrive Music Before you can "check out" a digital title, you'll need your blue Juneau library card, an Internet connection, and the device or system required by the material(s) you'd like to download. Instructions are available at the Listen Alaska website.
Subjects	Arts and Humanities Education General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Literature Social Sciences
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Vendor	Gale Group
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/june77027?db=Twayne
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Description	Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.
Subjects	Literature
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Vendor	Gale Group
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/june77027?db=Scribner
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Description	Scribner Writers Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.
Subjects	Literature
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url	http://www.intute.ac.uk
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Description	Web portal created by UK academic librarians that provides an annotated web directory with search and browse capabilities for resources in a wide range of academic disciplines. Each site has a record with subject headings and uncontrolled keywords. Intute also provides a Virtual Training Suite with free online tutorials for many academic disciplines, including those taught at UAS.
Subjects	Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Health Sciences Life Sciences Literature Newspapers and Current Events Physical Sciences and Mathematics Reference, Almanacs, Encyclopedias Social Sciences
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url	http://scholar.google.com
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Description	Search for peer-reviewed academic papers across many disciplines found in many different sources.
Subjects	Alaskan Issues Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Health Sciences Life Sciences Literature Newspapers and Current Events Physical Sciences and Mathematics Reference, Almanacs, Encyclopedias Social Sciences Technology and Computing
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Vendor	OCLC Firstsearch
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=WorldCatDissertations;FSIP
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Description	A database of all the dissertations and theses available through WorldCat.
Subjects	Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Health Sciences Life Sciences Literature Physical Sciences and Mathematics Social Sciences Technology and Computing
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Vendor	OCLC Firstsearch
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=WorldCat;FSIP
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Description	Millions of records for books and other materials worldwide. Identify resources not available in the Juneau library system in WorldCat and order through interlibrary loan.
Subjects	Alaskan Issues Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Health Sciences Life Sciences Literature Newspapers and Current Events Physical Sciences and Mathematics Reference, Almanacs, Encyclopedias Social Sciences Technology and Computing
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If Other: Name	SLED - Databases for Alaskans
url	http://sled.alaska.edu/databases/home.html
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Description	Formerly known as 'Databases for Alaskans', the Digital Pipeline is a grouping of databases for Alaskan citizens to search for information from articles and selected reference sources. Look under the subject categories, or click the link to 'List of resources by name'.
Subjects	Alaskan Issues Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Health Sciences Life Sciences Literature Newspapers and Current Events Reference, Almanacs, Encyclopedias Social Sciences Technology and Computing
Recommended	General and Multidisciplinary
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url	http://www.bartleby.com/
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Description	Search anthologies of verse, reference books, encyclopedias, the King James Bible, Bartlett's Quotations, thesauri and more.
Subjects	Literature
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url	http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
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Subjects	Literature
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Vendor	Other
If Other: Name	University of Wisconisn-Madison The Writing Center
url	http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLA.html
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Description	A website guide to the 2003 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
Subjects	Arts and Humanities General and Multidisciplinary Literature Reference, Almanacs, Encyclopedias
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Vendor	RefWorks
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.refworks.com:80/Refworks/
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Description	Allows users to create a personalized bibliographic database. RefWorks supports hundreds of databases provided by numerous data vendors. After creating a personal account, you may import citations into RefWorks to save and manipulate them in a variety of ways; this includes the ability to create bibliographies in multiple writing styles such as MLA or APA. A plug-in tool for Microsoft Word (called Write-n-Cite) gives the ability to synchronize your word processing document with your RefWorks database, to insert citations and create a bibliography based on inserted citations.
Subjects	Alaskan Issues Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Health Sciences Life Sciences Literature Newspapers and Current Events Physical Sciences and Mathematics Reference, Almanacs, Encyclopedias Social Sciences Technology and Computing
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Vendor	EBSCOhost
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=novelists
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Description	Reader's advisory guide to fiction for students of grades K-8. Includes book reviews and teacher resources such as curriculum guides. Search by author, title, keyword, and series.
Subjects	Arts and Humanities Literature
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Vendor	EBSCOhost
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=novelist
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Description	Reader's advisory guide to fiction. Includes book reviews, information about books of fiction, and a search capability to locate similar titles. Also, browse by author or by award-winning title.
Subjects	Arts and Humanities Literature
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Vendor	Gale Group
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/june77027?db=LitRC
Coverage Begins	Varies
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Licence	Other
License Detail	Special licensing with Fairbanks?
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Description	Includes full-text biographical, bibliographical, and critical essays from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism as well as a number of scholarly journals.
Subjects	Arts and Humanities Literature
Recommended	Literature
Category	Databases

Vendor	Other
If Other: Name	Capital City Libraries Information Center
url	http://www.ccl.lib.ak.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/57/49?user_id=PACUAS&password=EGAN
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Type	Citation/Abstract
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License Detail	Open Access Juneau Area Libraries Catalog
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Description	The Capital City Libraries catalog includes the library holdings of University of Alaska Southeast Egan Library, the Juneau Public Libraries, the Alaska State Library, and the Juneau-Douglas High School Library.
Subjects	Alaskan Issues Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Health Sciences Life Sciences Literature Newspapers and Current Events Physical Sciences and Mathematics Reference, Almanacs, Encyclopedias Social Sciences Technology and Computing
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Vendor	JSTOR
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/
Coverage Begins	Varies
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Licence	UAS
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Description	An archive of entire runs of 19th and 20th century scholarly journals. Disciplines of journals include African American Studies, Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Botany, Business, Ecology, Education, History, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, and Statistics. Page images of journal contents may be viewed, printed, and downloaded.
Subjects	Alaskan Issues Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Life Sciences Literature Physical Sciences and Mathematics Social Sciences
Recommended	Arts and Humanities Life Sciences Literature Physical Sciences and Mathematics Social Sciences
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Vendor	ebrary
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uasoutheast
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Licence	UAS
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Description	The ebrary electronic book collection has more than 23,000 full-text electronic books in the subject areas of: Business & Economics, Computers & Technology, Humanities, Education, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and over 800 titles in the Spanish Language. In addition, ebrary features maps searchable within the Advanced search screen. Browse the collection by subject or use basic and advanced searching. Limited printing of ebrary ebooks is available. Create your own account with ebrary to take advantage of advanced features. The ebrary reader must be downloaded to computers accessing ebrary for the first time.
Subjects	Alaskan Issues Arts and Humanities Business and Management Education Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Health Sciences Life Sciences Literature Physical Sciences and Mathematics Reference, Almanacs, Encyclopedias Social Sciences Technology and Computing
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Vendor	EBSCOhost
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url	http://egandb.uas.alaska.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=aph
Coverage Begins	1975
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Type	Full Text
Licence	Statewide
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Description	Large multidisciplinary database providing full text access to almost 4,700 scholarly publications including nearly 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Subject coverage includes, but is not limited to, social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.
Subjects	Alaskan Issues Arts and Humanities Education General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Life Sciences Literature Physical Sciences and Mathematics Social Sciences
Recommended	Arts and Humanities Environmental Sciences General and Multidisciplinary Government, Political Science, Law Literature Social Sciences
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Recommended Databases for Literature

Recommended Databases for Literature
	Academic Search Premier	EBSCOhost	Details
	Children's Literature Review	Gale Group	Details
	JSTOR	JSTOR	Details
	Literature Resource Center	Gale Group	Details
	MLA Bibliography (Trial)	EBSCOhost	Details

Databases for Literature

Databases for Literature
	Academic Search Premier	EBSCOhost	Details
	Book Review Digest Plus (Wilson)	EBSCOhost	Details
	Children's Literature Review	Gale Group	Details
	Digital Pipeline	SLED - Databases for Alaskans	Details
	Essay & General Literature Index	EBSCOhost	Details
	Humanities Full Text	EBSCOhost	Details
	JSTOR	JSTOR	Details
	Literature Resource Center	Gale Group	Details
	MLA Bibliography (Trial)	EBSCOhost	Details
	Omnifile Full Text Mega (Wilson)	EBSCOhost	Details
	Scribner Writers Series	Gale Group	Details
	Twayne Authors Series	Gale Group	Details
	WorldCat Dissertations	OCLC Firstsearch	Details

Internet Resources for Literature

Internet Resources for Literature
	Bartleby		Details
	DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals	Lund University Libraries	Details
	Google Scholar		Details
	Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism		Details
	Intute		Details
	MLA Style Citation Guide	University of Wisconisn-Madison The Writing Center	Details

Books, E-books for Literature

Books, E-books for Literature
	ebrary (Electronic Book Collection)	ebrary	Details
	Library Catalog (CCLIC)	Capital City Libraries Information Center	Details
	ListenAlaska	OverDrive Digital Library	Details
	WorldCat	OCLC Firstsearch	Details

Tools for Literature

Tools for Literature
	Live Homework Help	Tutor.com	Details
	NoveList	EBSCOhost	Details
	NoveList K-8	EBSCOhost	Details
	RefWorks	RefWorks	Details

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