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Classic Tri-C Catalog
Search using the subject option to limit to materials about your author.

OhioLINK Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Use the search by subject option to limit to materials about your author in this combined catalog of millions of books and other library materials from Ohio academic libraries and the State Library of Ohio.

Electronic Book Center OhioLINK This link opens in a new window
Full text of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books; covers many subject areas.

Young Adult Authors, Literary Reference Source Plus
Includes the following authors: Angeline Boulley, Akwaeke Emezi, Cynthia Voigt, Dashka Slater, David Yoon, Gene, Luen Yang, Ibi Zoboi, Jason Reynolds, Judy Blume, Kacen Callender, Leah Johnson, Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Neal Shusterman, Nicola Yoon, Nnedi Okorafor, Rick Riordan, Ruta Sepetys, Sabaa Tahir, Sharon Draper, Suzanne Collins, Tahereh Mafi, Tomi Adeyemi, Traci Chee

Literary Reference Source Plus This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text articles on topics in multiple disciplines, useful as a starting point for most subjects.
Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Reference works focusing on the lives and events that have shaped African American and African history and culture.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
An index to books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics, includes literature from all over the world.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,900 titles, and full text of hundreds of journals books and other publications in the humanities.
Biography Reference Source This link opens in a new window
Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images; offers substantive narrative profiles, each about 2,000 words long.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Provides background information from subject-specific dictionaries and encyclopedias, including hundreds on literature.

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Includes questions to ask when evaluating an author, an article, and a website...from EBSCO

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