Howard County Library Databases

Access to these databases requires a library card number.

<strong>Instructions</strong>

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<li>How do I… > Use electronic resources > List of databases > Literature
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<li>Author Information and literary criticism (Infotrac)</li>
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<li>Change “search for words in:” to name of work if searching book title or to person if searching author</li>
<li>Check to limit “to documents with full text”</li>
<li>Uncheck “All” box and check “Literature Criticism” and/or whatever information you are looking for, then click search</li>
<li>You can limit results further by clicking on the book title (novel) on the left hand-side</li>
<li>Once you select the article, the tools are on the right-hand side
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<li>eBooks on literature criticism – Infobase eBooks</li>
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<li>Use the search bar for author or book title and change drop down to “search title text” before clicking search OR just sort by title (includes “a” and “the”) and browse the list</li>
<li>Within the book, the left–hand bar gives title information/summary and citation</li>
<li>Note – you can only print up to 9 pages
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<li>eBooks on Shakespeare’s works… – Marshall Cavendish eBooks (sparse for novels)</li>
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