http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/tags/A/poetry-short-stories.html en Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:44:43 -0400 webmaster@lib.vt.edu webmaster@lib.vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/africa-knowledge-project.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_akp.jpg" alt="African Knowledge Project" height="165px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/index/search" title="Africa Knowledge Project" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/index/search')" shape="rect">Africa Knowledge Project</a> </span></h2><p>The <i>Africa Knowledge Project</i> indexes the full text of articles, reports, dissertations, short stories and folktales, plus audio and music files on Africa and the African diaspora. 1968-present.  <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1001175"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/africa-knowledge-project.html">Full record</a></p> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:42:00 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/africa-knowledge-project.html Article searching Countries and cultures Governance Multimedia Music recordings and scores Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Theses and dissertations Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/K/kiswahili-story-database.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_akp.jpg" alt="African Knowledge Project" height="165px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/ksd/search" title="Kiswahili Story Database from Africa Knowledge Project" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/ksd/search')" shape="rect">Kiswahili Story Database from Africa Knowledge Project</a> </span></h2><p><i>Kiswahili Story Database</i> provides full-text short stories, folktales, proverbs, and poems in Kiswahili (Swahili) in PDF. 2009-present. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1001192"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/K/kiswahili-story-database.html">Full record</a></p> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:00:00 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/K/kiswahili-story-database.html Countries and cultures Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/N/S_newsbank.jpg" alt="Newsbank Readex" height="103px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EAIX" title="America's Historical Imprints from Newsbank-Readex" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EAIX')" shape="rect">America's Historical Imprints from Newsbank-Readex</a> </span></h2><p><em>America's Historical Imprints</em> is a digital collection containing virtually every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America over a 200-year period. It is comprised of a vast range of publications, including advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties, and more. Scanned pages available as JPEG, TIFF, and PDF. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000847"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html">Full record</a></p> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:42:00 -0500 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html Countries and cultures Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Governance Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/B/black-literature-criticism-classic-and-emerging-authors-since-1950-from-gale.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/G/S_gale-virtual-ref.jpg" alt="Gale Virtual Reference Library" height="132px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/screencasts/gale/index.html"><img alt="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_screencast.gif" title="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" width="20" /></a></div><h2><span> <a href="http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&amp;prodId=GVRL&amp;eisbn=9781414431741&amp;userGroupName=viva_vpi&amp;version=1.0" title="Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 from Gale Virtal Reference Library" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&amp;prodId=GVRL&amp;eisbn=9781414431741&amp;userGroupName=viva_vpi&amp;version=1.0')" shape="rect">Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 from Gale Virtal Reference Library</a> </span></h2><p><i>Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950</i> provides full-text reference articles in HTML and PDF on selective works of African American literature, including works of African and Carribean authors. Entries include biographical data, overviews of literary interests, summaries of works, and critical commentary. Many entries include an author portrait. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000876"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/B/black-literature-criticism-classic-and-emerging-authors-since-1950-from-gale.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/B/black-literature-criticism-classic-and-emerging-authors-since-1950-from-gale.html Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Poetry and short stories Reviews and critiques Restricted to Virginia Tech users Screencast tutorials available http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/artfl-frantext.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_artfl.jpg" alt="ARTFL" height="113px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/content/artfl-frantext" title="ARTFL-FRANTEXT" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/content/artfl-frantext')" shape="rect">ARTFL-FRANTEXT</a> </span></h2><p><i>ARTFL-FRANTEXT</i> provides HTML full-text works ranging from classic French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000221"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/artfl-frantext.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/artfl-frantext.html Countries and cultures Ebook packages Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/annee-philologique.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/print/S_annee-phil.jpg" alt="L'Annee philologique" height="123px" width="185px" /> </div></div><h2><span> <a href="http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1276076~S1" title="L'Annee philologique " class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1276076~S1')" shape="rect">L'Annee philologique </a> </span></h2><p><i>L'Année philologique</i> (The Year in Philology) is a print index contains citations of all known scholarly work published in any language anywhere in the world in the areas of ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian texts, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy. Each entry offers a one- or two-sentence summary of the content. Includes coverage of conference proceedings and book reviews. Coverage begins in 200 BCE and ends roughly in 800 AD.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/annee-philologique.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/annee-philologique.html Article searching Catalogs (about publications) Conference papers, preprints, and working papers Poetry and short stories Reviews and critiques Print index http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-poetry.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/V/S_virgo.jpg" alt="VIRGO from UVA" height="160px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_viva.gif" title="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" width="36" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog?complete=true&amp;f%5Bdigital_collection_facet%5D%5B%5D=Chadwyck-Healey+American+Poetry" title="American Poetry from the Electronic Text Center at UVA" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog?complete=true&amp;f%5Bdigital_collection_facet%5D%5B%5D=Chadwyck-Healey+American+Poetry')" shape="rect">American Poetry from the Electronic Text Center at UVA</a> </span></h2><p><em>American Poetry</em> contains over 40,000 full-text poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early twentieth century. Any accompanying text written by the poet and forming an integral part of the poem, such as dedications, notes, arguments and epigraphs, is also generally included. 1625-1900. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000131"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-poetry.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-poetry.html Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users VIVA Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-periodical-series-online-from-proquest.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/P/S_proquest.gif" alt="ProQuest search screen" height="134px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://search.proquest.com/americanperiodicals/advanced?accountid=14826" title="APS - American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 from ProQuest" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://search.proquest.com/americanperiodicals/advanced?accountid=14826')" shape="rect">APS - American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 from ProQuest</a> </span></h2><p><em>American Periodicals Series Online</em> contains over 1,100 full-text periodicals (in HTML and PDF) that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including scholarly, special interest, and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Covers all academic disciplines including the sciences, though news and literary magazines are most prevalent. An excellent source of primary documents.  <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000296"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-periodical-series-online-from-proquest.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-periodical-series-online-from-proquest.html Article searching Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Professional and trade literature Restricted to Virginia Tech users Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/L/S_LoC-am.jpg" alt="Library of Congress" height="116px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /> <img alt="Gold open access - publishing" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_open-access-gold.gif" title="Gold open access - publishing" width="14" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" title="American Memory from the Library of Congress" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html')" shape="rect">American Memory from the Library of Congress</a> </span></h2><p><i>American Memory</i> is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s digitized American historical materials, organized into more than 100 thematic collections. Original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music. Each collection provides explanatory features to make the materials easy to find, use, and understand. Collections may be browsed individually, searched individually (including full-text searching for many written items), or searched across multiple collections. 1400s-present.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html Catalogs (about publications) Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon Gold open access: publishing http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-newspapers-from-newsbank-readex.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/N/S_newsbank.jpg" alt="Newsbank Readex" height="103px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EANX" title="America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 from Newsbank Readex" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EANX')" shape="rect">America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 from Newsbank Readex</a> </span></h2><p>Cover-to-cover reproductions of 1,000+ US newspapers in PDF. Restrict searches to dates/eras, article types (news &amp; opinion, election returns, letters, poetry/songs, legislative, prices, advertisements, matrimony &amp; death notices), region/state, and newspaper name. Includes the digital versions of the <i>Early American Newspapers</i> microforms collection, <i>African American Newspapers 1827-1998</i>, and a collection of Virginia newspapers (labeled Selected Historical Newspapers). <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000423"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-newspapers-from-newsbank-readex.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-newspapers-from-newsbank-readex.html Article searching Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Reports, standards, and financials Reviews and critiques Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-american-poetry-database-from-uva.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/V/S_virgo.jpg" alt="VIRGO from UVA" height="160px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_viva.gif" title="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" width="36" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><div><h2><span> <a href="http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog?complete=true&amp;f[digital_collection_facet][]=Chadwyck-Healey+African-American+Poetry" title="African-American Poetry Database 1760-1975 from the Electronic Text Center at UVA" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog?complete=true&amp;f[digital_collection_facet][]=Chadwyck-Healey+African-American+Poetry')" shape="rect">African-American Poetry Database 1760-1975 from the Electronic Text Center at UVA</a> </span></h2><p>A collection of over 2,500 full-text poems in HTML. It provides a survey of African American poetry from the earliest published African American poems to the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar. The bibliographic basis is William French's <em>Afro-American Poetry and Drama 1760-1975</em>. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000128"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-american-poetry-database-from-uva.html">Full record</a></p></div> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-american-poetry-database-from-uva.html Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users VIVA Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/academic-search-complete-from-ebscohost.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/E/S_ebsco.jpg" alt="EBSCOhost interface" height="123px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_viva.gif" title="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" width="36" /> <img alt="This resource provides a mobile interface; see description for link" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_mobile.gif" title="This resource provides a mobile interface; see description for link" width="10" /> <a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/screencasts/ebsco/index.html"><img alt="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_screencast.gif" title="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" width="20" /></a> <img alt="database provides Get VText links" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_getvtext-20.gif" title="database provides Get VText links" width="80" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=a9h" title="Academic Search Complete from EBSCOhost" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=a9h')" shape="rect">Academic Search Complete from EBSCOhost</a> </span></h2><p><i>Academic Search Complete</i> indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journal articles, books, reports, and conference proceedings in all subject disciplines. Full text provided in PDF and HTML. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals. Searches can be limited to peer reviewed sources. Indexing 1887-present, most content 1980s-present. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000630"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/academic-search-complete-from-ebscohost.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/academic-search-complete-from-ebscohost.html Article searching Conference papers, preprints, and working papers Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Professional and trade literature Reviews and critiques Restricted to Virginia Tech users VIVA Mobile interface Screencast tutorials available Get VText