Criticism on Great Works of Literature--Online!

Who ever thought criticism begins online?! It now does at Chabot!

The Library is always looking to improve its online presence with full text resources, and this year with respect to English 4, the popular course of the Writing and Critical Thinking requirement for General Education, we have purchased a great number of E-Books so that everyone now has unlimited simultaneous access to more books devoted to literary criticism.

These are in addition to our main database of literary criticism, Literature Resource Center and journals in Academic Search Elite.

Through Literature Criticism Online, Short Story Criticism presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes overviews of three to six short story writers, works, or topics and a historical survey of the critical response. The Library has gotten all 150 volumes online and will be getting all future volumes in this format.

The Library has also purchased around 900 books in Gale Virtual Reference Library devoted to literary figures and literary criticism, including the entire Twayne series, spanning 860 E-books devoted to individual authors and works.

The Library has purchased over 40 additional E-books on literary criticism devoted to individual authors and texts in the ABC-CLIO ebook collection.

For the above, all individual texts are also in the Library Catalog. So students can find both our print and online texts of criticisms devoted to individual literary authors!

Finally, for students that want to find full-text poems and short stories on particular subjects or by authors, LitFinder provides it easily, including some works with copyright permission to appear here. It also provides indexing information to print materials.

Great literary critics abound online!

E-Books at Chabot College Library

Since last year, Chabot College Library has begun getting subscriptions and purchasing databases and platforms that provide E-Books. Here is an introduction to three products that are available to you:

Pop Culture Universe searches reference books, encyclopedias, biographies, and collections of essays on various aspects of popular culture from around the world, from the early twentieth century to the present. Provided by renowned publishers such as Greenwood and Praeger, this collection, written by scholars of many different fields, demonstrate a quality that Wikipedia can never compare. Whether it is research on film studies, cultural anthropology, the youth culture, trends in art or music, or biographies of well-known figures of the day, this is an excellent resource. The total of the collection amounts to around 370 titles with over 400 volumes, and includes over 5,500 book chapters AND over 19,000 detailed encyclopedia entries.


Gale Virtual Reference Library is a platform for you to access many different reference E-books. The Library has purchased so far 71 different titles, totaling to more than 200 volumes which includes research in the Social Sciences, the Sciences, Literature, Business, Law, Careers, and Education. Also contains analyses and statistics of the hot topics of the day.

Salem Literature and Salem Health are different platforms which contain titles that the Library has purchased in print, of which the Library is also given free online access. Salem Literature contains book-length critical analyses of individual authors such as Toni Morrison or individual works such as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Salem Health contains encyclopedias on various aspects of human health.

Where do I find them? All products are available on our Databases page where you click on Magazines, Journal Articles and Newspapers. You can also find them at our developing E-Books page (currently in progress).