NVC Research Guides: Top 100 College Ready Reads: College

What Is a Database?

What is a Database?
A database is a library search engine for in-depth or subject-specific research.

Literature Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multi–disciplinary database that provides fulltext articles and abstracts in all subject areas.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
General reference source of encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations and bilingual dictionaries. Its full-text content covers every major subject. Try the Concept Map option.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access to many scholarly journals in the arts, literature, botany, ecology and the social sciences. Access to over 3 milliion high quality Artstor images.
Latino Literature This link opens in a new window
Brings together poetry, fiction, and plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds Latino authors working in the United States. Also includes Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays.
Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Contains over 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.

Tips for Finding Articles

Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed Journals: Look for a box or filter that allows you to limit results to scholarly journals (also known as peer-reviewed or academic journals).

Subject/Thesaurus Terms: Follow subject terms links (frequently displayed to the left of your search results) to find more on-target resources.

Books

The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama (Illustrator, Illustrator); Howard C. Cutler
ISBN: 9781573221115
The Divine Comedy by Dante Dante Alighieri; John D. Sinclair (Translator)
ISBN: 9780195004120
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
ISBN: 9781503292383
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781775412359
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781775411741
American Tragedy by David E. Kaiser
ISBN: 9780674002258
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9781775410027
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury by Harold Bloom (Editor, Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780791045190
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliott
ISBN: 9781775416180
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; Charles Johnson (Preface by)
ISBN: 9780679601395

Books

Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Robert D. Richardson (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780553213881
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; E. L. Doctorow (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780375504525
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding; Henry Fielding
ISBN: 9781775412533
Lord of the Flies by William Golding; Lois Lowry (Afterword by); Jennifer Buehler (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780399501487
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780007368655
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; Eleanor Marx-Aveling (Translator)
ISBN: 9781775411932
Faust by Jef Jacobs (Editor); Vincent Laarhoven (Editor); Ad van der Logt (Editor); Myra Nijhof (Editor)
ISBN: 9789089642363
Mythology by Edith Hamilton; Aphrodite Trust; Apollo Trust
ISBN: 9780316341141
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780486415895
The Scarlet Letter by Bryan Hunt; A. J. Alexander (General Editor); Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN: 9798559482163