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Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
A collection o f 11,000 searchable quotations, passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.
http://www.bartleby.com/100/ (Not a MDLP resource)

Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Covers the major movements in English and American literature from its early developments to the early twentieth century. Has useful biographical information and bibligraphies on major individuals and literary movements.
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/ (Not a MDLP resource)

Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete
Canada's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic full text reference and current events database with four subsets Reference, Current Events, Business and Education With over 4 million records, CBCA Complete is ideal for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images.

General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics.

Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline, covering more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.

Novelist Plus
An online readers’ advisory service to assist readers in finding fiction books based on the books they’ve read or topics in which they are interested. This database includes more than 130,000 fiction titles for all ages with subject and keyword access, full text reviews and 36,000 individual subject headings.

Novelist K- 8 Plus
An online readers’ advisory service containing enhanced subject access for over 50,000 fiction titles aimed at the K-8 population. Included are full text reviews from sources such as School Library Journal and Booklist.