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School & Society in the Novel Professor Gay Fall 2005 Reference Sources Books Articles Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494) Reference Works Biographies | General Works Biographies American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999-2002. Reference R 920.073 A512 Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . British Writers. Ed. Ian Scott-Kilvert. New York: Scribner, 1979- . Reference R 920.9 B8621 Contemporary Authors. Gale, 2001- . The E.H. Little Library also has copies of the print volumes from 1967-2003; they are shelved in Reference at call number R 928 C76. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1978- . Reference R 928.1 D554 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Anne Commire. 17 vols. Waterford, CT: Yorkin, 1999. Reference R 920.7 W872 General Works The ABC-CLIO World History Companion to Utopian Movements. Daniel W. Hollis. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998. Reference R 335.02 H742a Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Reference R 909.04 A2581 The American College Novel: An Annotated Bibliography. John E. Kramer. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004. Reference R 016.813 K89a Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003. Reference R 973 D554 2003 Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia. Ed. David L. Levinson. New York: Routledge, 2002. Reference R 306.43 E24 Encyclopedia of African-American Education. Ed. Faustine C. Jones-Wilson et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996. Reference R 370.3 E5612 Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. Ed. John Middleton. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1997. Reference R 967 E56 Encyclopedia of American Education. Ed. Harlow G. Unger. 2nd ed. 3 vols. New York: Facts on File, 2001. Reference R 370.973 U57e Encyclopedia of American Social History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton et al. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1993. Reference R 301.097 E56 Encyclopedia of Education. Ed. James W. Guthrie. 2nd ed. 8 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003. Reference R 370.3 E561 Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. 15 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005. Reference R 203 E562 Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa. Ed. Philip Mattar. 2nd ed. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2004. Reference R 956.03 E561 Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996. Reference R 973.03 E562 Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Ed. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Dickson Eyoh. New York: Routledge, 2003. Reference R 960.3 E56 Encyclopedia of Women and Gender. Ed. Judith Worell. 2 vols. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001. Reference R 305.4 E56 Encyclopedia of Women in American History. 3 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2002. Reference R 305.409 E56 Europa World: The Europa World Year Book Online. London: Europa, 1959- . The online edition contains current data and information. The Library also has print versions of the Europa World Year Book from 1959 to present (Reference R 341.1 E89). A Handbook to Literature. William Harmon. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. Reference R 803 H747h9 Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Ed. James J.F. Forest and Kevin Kinser. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002. Reference R 378.73 H638 Historical Dictionary of Fascist Italy. Ed. Philip V. Cannistraro. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982. Reference R 945.09 H673 Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Mark F. Gilbert and K. Robert Nilsson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1999. Reference R 945.08 G464h Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988. Ed. Robert W. Kern. New York: Greenwood, 1990. Reference R 946.003 H673 Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Ed. James W. Cortada. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982. Reference R 946.08 H673 Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Richard A. Lobban et al. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2002. Reference R 962.4 V923h3 New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Horowitz. 6 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2005. Reference R 901.9 D554 2005 The Library also has a copy of the first edition, the Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener (5 vols.; New York: Scribner, 1973-1974), shelved in Reference at call number R 901.9 D554. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. James D. Hart. 6th ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995. Reference R 810.3 O98c6 The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Ed. Margaret Drabble. 6th ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000. Reference R 820.3 H34o6 Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003. Reference R 809 R332 The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism. Ed. Sarah Gamble. New York: Routledge, 2000. Reference R 305.42 R869 Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. Ed. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. 4 vols. New York: Routledge, 2000. Reference R 305.4 R869 West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Jeffrey Lehman and Shirelle Phelps. 2nd ed. 13 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2004. Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Ed. Timothy L. Gall. 11th ed. 6 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2004. [Online only] Tools for Locating Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography. Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war"). Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Tools for Locating Articles Starting Points | Subject-Specific Indexes & Databases Starting Points Academic Search Elite (1984 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. InfoTrac OneFile (1980 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also included citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use an exclamation point !. LexisNexis Academic (Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as the text of newswires, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts. Search Syntax Truncation: use an exclamation point. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use an asterisk *. OmniFile Full Text Mega (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Subject-Specific Indexes & Databases Education Abstracts (1983 to present) Indexes articles from over 500 English-language education periodicals, books, and yearbooks; covers a wide variety of education-related topics. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. ERIC (1966 to present) Indexes articles in over 775 journals as well as reports, conference proceedings, and curriculum guides in education and related areas. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Essay & General Literature Index Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years. Search Syntax Truncation: use a plus sign +. Phrase searching: automatic. MLA International Bibliography (1963 to present). Indexes journal articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore. Note: To locate articles from earlier time periods, consult the MLA International Bibliography, 1925-1962 (Reference R 016.4 M16m). Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Proquest Religion (1986 to present) Indexes articles from more than 90 religion periodicals. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Social Sciences Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. 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