English
Tutorials
Literature Resource Center teaches you how to effectively search the Literature Resource Center for biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers.
Project Muse teaches you how to get precise results from this database containing academic journals in a wide variety of disciplines.
Factiva teaches you how to use this international news database to retrieve the latest news on your topics.
CQ Researcher teaches you how to use this resource that provides comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news.
Remote Access Guide shows the step-by-step process for accessing subscription databases from off campus.
Library Subscription Services
Current PVCC students, faculty and staff have access through computers both on and off campus.
Literature Criticism Online, comprised of Contemporary Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Short Story Criticism, profiles selected authors and provides excerpts from critical analyses of their works.
Literature Resource Center has critical analyses, biographical information and bibliographies of authors and their works.
MLA International Bibliography provides access to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books and dissertations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines including language, literature, literary theory and criticism, folklore, linguistics and the dramatic arts.
Gale Virtual Reference Collection is a set of electronic encyclopedias and reference books. Includes Scribner Writers Online and Twayne's Authors Online.
EBSCO (for mobile devices) provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles.
Factiva is a leading provider of news articles and business information.
CQ Researcher contains comprehensive reports on the issues that shape our world.
CWI Contemporary Women's Issues provides a global perspective on critical issues and events that affect women.
Reference Works
American History Through Literature 1820-1870
American History Through Literature 1870-1920
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
A Dictionary of Shakespeare
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works
The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English
The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
The Oxford Dictionary of English
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
The Oxford English Dictionary
Pocket Fowlers Modern English Usage
Other Resources
MLA Documentation is a citation guide for PVCC student research papers and reports.
Citation Styles Research Guide A Web guide for both MLA and APA citation styles.
Strunk's Elements of Style provides information for writers on grammar, usage and style.
