New to Literary Criticism? Start here.


Now it’s easier than ever to find critical reviews of an author or work of literature. Albertsons Library is pleased to announce the addition of the Gale database Literature Criticism Online, an invaluable gateway that can help students new to literary research find introductory information about an author or work. The database is equally useful to more experienced researchers who are seeking biographical and contextual details about an author, their time, and the critical reception of their individual works.

Literature Criticism Online builds upon the Literary Index database that enabled basic searching of Gale’s literary criticism series. Literature Criticism Online includes searchable full-text entries with original page images for ten of Gale’s critical series that cover nearly every major period and genre.

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism
  • Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
  • Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism
  • Literature Criticism 1400-1800
  • Shakespeare Criticism
  • Poetry Criticism
  • Short Story Criticism
  • Children’s Literature Review

And soon to be added:

  • Drama Criticism
  • Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism

Perhaps best of all, like all Albertsons Library databases, Literature Criticism Online is available 24/7 from anywhere you have an internet connection and a BroncoWeb login. Enjoy!

BioOne: biosciences database

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new and comprehensive biosciences database: BioOne. BioOne brings together peer reviewed and research journals from a variety of small society and not-for-profit organizations and publishers, along with open access journals whose emphases cover all fields of biology, ecology, and environmental sciences.

With BioOne you now have access to over 100 new titles, ranging in scope from coastal research, herpetology, and paleobiology to primate conservation, weed science, and palynology, to name a few.

What makes BioOne such an important resource is that it brings together many high-impact research journals in an online environment for the very first time. Titles such as:

  • Advances in Applied Biodiversity
  • Avian Diseases
  • The Condor
  • Comparative Parasitology
  • Fieldiana (Anthropology, Botany, Geology, & Zoology)
  • Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
  • Journal of Raptor Research
  • Mountain Research and Development
  • Northwestern Naturalist
  • Rhodora
  • Western North American Naturalist

Most titles in BioOne from 2000 to present are available in full-text HTML or PDF formats, with pre-2000 backfiles available in JSTOR, another of Albertsons Library's databases.

Get 24-hour online access to BioOne, along with other new research databases such as Ethnic NewsWatch and Birds of North America, on the Albertsons Library Articles, Databases page.