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1. LicencedAustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature

AustLit is a key resource for information about Australian writers and writing covering the 1780s to the present. AustLit provides a combination of enhanced biographical and bibliographical information and the full text of critical articles, creative writing and information resources about many aspects of Australia's literary heritage. AustLit also provides specialist research and information subsets, including Black Words: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Story Tellers, which contains biographical, bibliographical and full text material relating to Australian Indigenous cultures of literature and story. Other AustLit subsets cover children's literature, drama and popular theatre, multicultural writers, Australian magazine history, and Banned Books.

2. LicencedBook Review Digest

H.W. Wilson: Book Review Digest, is a bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. Periodical coverage includes leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. To be indexed in Book Review Digest, a book must have been published or distributed in the United States or Canada. A work of nonfiction must have received reviews in two or more of the periodicals on the Book Review Digest selection list. A work of fiction must have received reviews is at least three of the periodicals. An exception is made for books reviewed in the Reference Books Bulletin section of Booklist. For these books one review is sufficient. Reviews must have appeared within 18 months after a book was published, and at least one review must be from a periodical published in the United States or Canada. Reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in the law and sciences are excluded. Also available in print from 1906 at RF 015.73 B00.

3. FreeIPL Literary Criticism Collection

Contains over 2500 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

4. LicencedLiterature Resource Center

Gale Group: The foundation of the Literature Resource Center is built on Thomson Gale's three hallmark author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 115,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars. The Literature Resource Center also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's respected Literature Criticism and For Students Series. The titles in these series include: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. In addition, users can access current, full-text critical essays on major authors via the Literature Resource Center's link to more than 250 prominent literary journals.

5. OnsiteMasterFILE Premier

EBSCO publishing: This resource provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,800 titles. It features full text Magill Book Reviews; hundreds of reference books including the World Almanac and Book of Facts; full text from thousands of biographies; thousands of full text primary source documents; American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition; and an Image Collection of over one hundred thousand photos, maps and flags. It offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal and National Review.

6. FreeOzLife: Australian Biography Index

National Library of Australia: OzLife commenced in September 2000 (includes earlier articles from The Canberra Times) and provides web access until June 2005 to the citations for biographical articles selected from the following Australian major national and metropolitan newspapers: The Advertiser (Adelaide); The Age (Melbourne); The Australian; The Australian Financial Review; The Canberra Times; The Courier Mail (Brisbane); The Mercury (Hobart); The Sydney Morning Herald; and The West Australian. Articles on prominent Australians in all walks of life, including musicians, authors, politicians and business executives, are included. Until September 2002 OzLife also indexed book reviews on works of Australian fiction and non-fiction which appeared in Australian journals and newspapers.

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