School & Society
in the Novel
Professor Gay
Fall 2005
Questions?
Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494)
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Reference Works
Biographies | General Works
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.
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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.
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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
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- 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
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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.
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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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- 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.
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Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".
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- 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
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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.
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- 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.
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Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".
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- 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.
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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).
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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.
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Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".
- Proquest Religion
(1986 to present) Indexes articles from more than 90 religion periodicals.
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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.
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