Electronic Resources: Books & Literature

STLS provides access to several subscription products for our member library cardholders, accessible 24 hours/day with a valid library barcode.

We are pleased to recommend the following web-based resources, but STLS is not responsible for the content of linked sites.

Bartleby Library	Includes thousands of full-text poems, novels, plays, essays, and other works in the public domain, as well as close to 100,000 quotations. Resources are carefully edited to ensure accuracy of data entry. A trustworthy place to locate classic works. Searchable and browsable.
BookBrowser: The Guide for Avid Readers	Excellent readers advisory site. Some of its features include Series and Sequels, in story order; The Best of... (find award winners); If You Like... Try...; and fiction arranged by Place and Time. Also, thousands of book reviews and links to various readers' resources. Contributed to by lots of librarians.
The Cambridge History of English & American Literature	Subtitled An encyclopedia in eighteen volumes this work was originally published from 1907 to 1921. It is well indexed; with an index to chapters, authors, and bibliographies, as well as a table of principle dates and contents of all the volumes. Not searchable.
Children's Literature Web Guide	The guide to Internet resources related to books for children and teens. Excellent source! Includes Children's Book Awards, the most comprehensive guide to English-language children's book awards on the Internet.
Citing Sources	Essential for writers of term papers, this clearly written guide gives examples of how to cite a specific source in APA, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian formats. Among the many examples included are citations for electronic books, online magazines, and web pages. From the Guide to Library Research site from Duke University Libraries.
IPL Online Books Collection	Over 20,000 online texts that can be browsed or searched by author, title, or Dewey Decimal Classification. From the Reading Room of the Internet Public Library. These aren't just the out-of-print classics. Try a search on "digital" or "electronic."
IPL Literary Criticism Collection	Links to over 4,000 critical and biographical resources dealing with American and British literature from pre-1500 to the twentieth century. Each link is annotated and can be accessed by author, work or literary period. The links are selected "for their overall usefulness" for high school and college students. From The Internet Public Library.
Librarian's Index to the Internet: Literature & Book Topics	Librarian-reviewed and selected resources. A great starting point for any type of research.
Literature Resource Center	Subscription resource: Log-in with your library card. Rich in biographical, bibliographical and critical content, the Literature Resource Center provides information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism and more. Click here for a title list. Access provided through NY State Library regional funding.
OCLC First Search, including WorldCat	OCLC FirstSearch: Includes WorldCat, the world's foremost bibliographic database with over 46 million records of electronic and traditional materials in library collections around the world. Also find full-text documents from over 1,400 journals through WilsonSelectPlus. Access provided through NY State Library regional funding.
Study Guides	GradeSaver
	Novel Guide
	PinkMonkey
	Spark Notes
The Webrary: Web Sites for Book Lovers	An annotated directory of online bestseller lists, booklists, book awards sites, book discussion resources, genre fiction sites, and much more. There are also links to other libraries' reader's advisory pages. From the Morton Grove, IL Public Library.
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