Online Indexes

These links are to online indexes for print resources the Alden Library has in its Reference Collection located on the 3rd floor of the Harrington Learning Center.  They are offered as a convenience for looking up topics in these resources.   There is no full text available to the QCC community online.  If you have questions about these indexes or how to use them please call the Reference Desk at (508)854-4366 during hours the library is open or email reference@qcc.mass.edu when the library is not open and you will receive a reply the next time the library is open.

CQResearcher index is a PDF document that is searchable to assist in locating topics in issues of CQResearcher, available in the Reference Collection in the Alden Library.  Adobe Acrobat must be on the computer accessing this online index in order to view it.

Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references about 149,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 196,000 titles into one source.  The Alden Library owns the following sets indexed in the Literary Index:

African-American Writers

American Writers

American Writers: The Classics

American Writers Retrospective Supplement

American Writers Supplement

Black Writers

Contemporary Authors New Revision Series

Contemporary Authors Permanent Series

Contemporary Dramatists

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Contemporary Poets

Contemporary Popular Writers

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century

Harlem Renaissance: A Gale Critical Companion

Hispanic Literature Criticism

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

Poetry for Students

Reference Guide to World Literature

Short Story Criticism

Twayne's English Authors

Twayne's United States Authors

Twayne's World Authors

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

World Literature and Its Times (v.2 African Literature)

World Poets

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