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All Flagler College students, faculty, and staff may access Proctor Library databases from any computer with an Internet connection. When accessing from off campus, you will be prompted to log in to a database with your College username and password. These are the same as those used to access College e-mail.

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Offers access to citations for articles since 1985 in the humanities and social sciences. This database is not full text.
The best scholarly database subscribed to by the Proctor Library providing access to articles in the fields of history, politicial science, archaeology, art history, anthropology, literature and languages, music, and more; however, JSTOR usually is unable to provide access to the most recently published articles.
The best database we have for literary criticism.
A wide variety of reference book entries on over 120,000 authors, with selections of articles about them or specific works of literature. User-Friendly!
Indexes journal articles, books, and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database goes back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

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The online version of the reference books in the series American National Biography, this database is continually updated and contains over 17,400 biographies. The database includes biographies, illustrations, cross-references, and links to external web sites.
Rather than consult the physical Books Review Digest books for post-1983 publications, you can look up the title of a book here and get citations to reviews of the book. For titles published pre-1983 you can find BRD shelved in the reference collection under REF Z1219 .C96.
Profiles of major short-story writers throughout history and the world.
This should be the first place you look when trying to find a biography on a person (U.S. or international).
Multi-disicplinary database: art, archaeology, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and theology.
Includes 50,000 biographies of people affiliated with Great Britain from pre-history to 2006. This database is licensed for only 1 user at a time.
A historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record.
Full text and abstracts from ProQuest literature and language publications.
This database is for articles in/on science fiction, fantasy, horror, the supernatural, and weird fiction.