Book Index with Reviews™ (BIR) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 5 million book titles, in a wide range of formats. BIR also contains almost 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and others.

Features reviews of several thousand children’s books. Helps teachers, librarians, childcare providers, and parents make appropriate choices for children. At their page click on “Subscriber Login” to access database.

Literary Reference Center is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 31,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, more than 159,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), 450 literary journals, more than 632,000 book reviews, more than 69,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 18,000 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 5,600 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more.

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles.

This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques — including contemporary content from the finest publishers.

Facts and pictures about authors and illustrators of books for young people.