New Literature Databases

New to the Southwestern College online Authors and Databases website is direct access to both the Scribner Writers Online and Twayne’s Authors Online databases.

Scribner Writers Online provides access to more than 2,000 original essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 important authors from around the world and from all time periods. Content in this database also includes additional resources like World Poets, British Writers Classics, American Writers Classics, Latino and Latina Writers, and more.

The Twayne’s Authors Online database offers criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature. This online resource provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.

You can access both resources from our Articles and Databases website in the Arts, History & Humanities section. For off campus access to these resources you must be a currently enrolled student in a Southwestern College credit course to receive off campus access.

Students can request off campus access by using the online Password Request Form at www.swccd.edu/~library/PasswordRequest.. Currently enrolled students will receive the list of passwords for off campus access within minutes by email.

You can also view an online tutorial that explains how to request the off campus passwords and how to access the online databases from off campus locations.