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An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.
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Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers from around the world in all disciplines and time periods.
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A bibliography of scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4400 journals and series and 1000 book publishers.  About 75% are language and literature journal articles.
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Full-text titles from over 100 scholarly journals in the Basic Undergraduate Collection. There is no way to limit to language on Project Muse searches. 
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The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.


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This EBSCOhost eBook collection provides access to over 138,000 titles covering a wide variety of subject areas. It is comprised of the following sub-collecctions:

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      eBook Clinical Collection
      eBook Community College Collection
      eBook High School Collection
      eBook K-8 Collection
      eBook Public Library Collection

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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Young adult drama
Young adult fiction
Young adult literature
Recommended Works
Best Books for Young Adults - available as ebook and in print - General Collection Z1037. C34 2007
Booklist's 1000 Best Young Adult Books Since 2000 - available as ebook
Literature for today's young adults - 1993 edition available in General Collection Z1037 A1 N55 1993 and 2005 edition available in General Collection Z1037 A1 D578 2005
Thematic guide to young adult literature - available in General Collection PS 374 Y57 T78 2006
Your reading : an annotated booklist for middle school and junior high - 1996 edition available in General Collection PN 1009 A1 Y69 1996 and 2003 edition available in General Collection PN 1009 A1 Y69 2003
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