We wanted to let you know about a new resource that may be useful for literature students. We now have online access to the “For Students” reference series from Gale’s Virtual Reference Library. This includes Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, Drama for Students, Shakespeare for Students, and Short Stories for Students. These works include summaries & leading criticism of canonical works.

You can find this listed with our literature databases at this URL:
http://www2.morainevalley.edu/default.asp?Siteid=10&Pageid=359&Categoryid=24&Category=Literature%20Resources. It is listed at “Literature for Students” in our database list.

As an example, here is a direct link to the search for “Shakespeare”: http://0-go.galegroup.com.library.morainevalley.edu/ps/i.do?ty=bs&v=2.1&u=mvcc_main&it=search&s=RELEVANCE&p=GVRL&searchType=BasicSearchForm&st=T003&qt=KE~shakespeare&sw=w (ID required for off campus access)

The library has increased online periodical & magazine access for our students, staff, and faculty. We have added two new databases that can be accessed on campus and off campus (with a valid MVCC ID). These databases are:

Academic Search Complete
Access this database on the library database page here: http://www2.morainevalley.edu/default.asp?Siteid=10&Pageid=359&Categoryid=26&Category=Psychology
Description: Academic Search Complete is the world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,900 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,800 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,900 journals and a total of more than 12,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

PsycArticles
Access this database on the library database page here: http://www2.morainevalley.edu/default.asp?Siteid=10&Pageid=359&Categoryid=14&Category=Multiple%20Subject%20Databases
Description: PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains approximately 150,000 articles from over 70 journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. PsycARTICLES is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.