Literature Resources Available Through the TexShare Databases

TexShare has two databases that contain a vast amount of content relating to literature and literary criticism, including scholarly articles, biographies and subject pathfinders. Additionally, TexShare offers the netLibrary Ebook collection, which provides online book versions of many important works of literature and literary criticism. This pathfinder will explore the resources available to you as a TexShare user.

Databases Containing Literary Criticism and Book Reviews

Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center is an aggregation of three of Gale's literature databases: Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. It contains information about over one hundred thousand novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other authors, and it also offers subject pathfinders, such as Shakespeare For Students, Novels for Students, and the Children's Literature Review.

Here is an example of a search for Harper Lee:

Use the tabs to view biographical information, literary criticism, bibliographies, timelines, and more.

Academic Search Premier

Available through the EBSCO interface, Academic Search Premier has scholarly information from 1975 to the present. It aggregates almost four thousand journals, with full-text provided in HTML and PDF formats. It is updated monthly.

How to Use Academic Search Premier

Fill in the text boxes with search terms relevant to your information need. To continue our search on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, for example, this is how you would use Academic Search Premier:

netLibrary

NetLibrary is a collection of over four thousand electronic books. Simply search by title, author, language or subject to find electronic books, including works of literature and criticism. Additionally, you can search an individual work for specific words, phrases or quotes. eBooks may be viewed online or "borrowed" for a short period of time.

If you need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to ask your local reference librarian.

This page was written by Keith Rutledge in Spring 2006 and revised by Alison Hicks in 2007.
INF 382S: Library Instruction and Information Literacy, taught by Dr. Loriene Roy
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin