Downloadable audio and ebooks on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with all popular e-readers that support apps. An app is available for download. Users will need to make a personal account to use this resource.
Full-text works of poetry, prose and drama, and secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and interviews. Designed with schools and public libraries in mind.
ProQuest Learning: Literature delivers more than 180,000 searchable works of literature from medieval times to the present. Students can find author biographies, contemporary criticism, reviews, and multimedia resources organized into more than 3,000 Author Pages.
ProQuest Learning: Literature also features 100+ searchable full-text literary journals and magazines for the latest in literary criticism.
Content and Features
100% full-text
180,000 searchable works of poetry, prose, and drama
110+ Literary review and criticism sources
3,500 author biographies
Multi-media images, audio, video, websites
Dedicated author landing pages
20 Reference book sources
950+ Recorded poems read by poets
220+ KnowledgeNote™ Study Guides literary text guides
Cambridge University Press essays on 37 noted American authors and works
Study Pages with selected criticism, multi-media, and reference for genres, literary periods, literary movements, and Shakespeare
A readers’ advisory resource that uses appeal factors and expert reviews to offer read-alike and listen-alike recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.
Overview
NoveList's expertise in books and reading means that you'll always get the best help for finding just the right books.Hand-crafted recommendations are created by professionals -- NoveList will tell you who wrote a recommendation and why the recommendation makes sense. Appeals factors are a signature feature of NoveList -- and help match readers with their perfect books. Do you like funny, fast-paced mysteries? Or detailed mysteries with a lot of intrigue? The appeal language in NoveList will help you identify books that fit your style.
Features Include:
Expert recommendations for fiction and nonfiction
Coverage of book titles for all ages
Audiobook recommendations
Complete series information
Appeal language to describe books
Benefits Include:
Popular, professional and reader reviews all in one place
Browsing by topic, age, reading (Lexile) level and more
Hundreds of reading lists, such as “Top 10” and “Best of”
Extensive “How Do I?” tab links to common FAQs
Downloadable quick lists of recommended books by topic
Common Core Standard documents, articles and other support
This database allows you to search the full-text of leading library and information science journals. This collection provides full-text coverage of 125+ core titles.
The Library Science Database provides access to over 150 top publications in library and information science. It is specifically designed to provide full-text support for the core titles included in the Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) database.
With coverage of hundreds of topics researched in the field of library and information science, this database includes text and images from journals such as:
American Libraries
Collection Building
Portal: Libraries and the Academy
Reference & User Services Quarterly
Technical Communication Quarterly
School Libraries Worldwide
Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics.
