Onondaga County Public Library Online Databases

Books and Literature

Gale Literature Resource Center
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

Gale Twayne's Authors Series
Contains the full text of 200 Twayne Literary Masters books on U.S., English, and world authors.

NoveList
A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles.

NoveList K–8
A fiction database designed for young readers, their parents, and teachers. Includes hundreds of theme-oriented book lists for readers at all grade levels, award-winning and recommended titles, and book reviews.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Provides 250,000 full-text poems and commentaries, biographies, books, and glossary as well as indexing and citations to anthologies.  New tools include Save Search (My Granger's), split screen poem comparison, a listening room, and our 6,000 subject browse.

Books in Print
Comprehensive database of 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Includes Fiction Connection, an easy-to-use tool that allows you to discover titles similar to books you already enjoy or to create a suggested reading list based on the search criteria you enter.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Searchable full-text reference titles, including Contemporary Poets.

Credo Reference
Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus) is a digital reference library featuring content from high-quality reference books in a broad range of subjects. Search all books simultaneously, or browse individual titles.

FirstSearch WorldCat
Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. [This is not the Onondaga County Public Library catalog.]