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Questions? Contact Sara Swanson (704-894-2157).
Books
See also the guide to Book Review Sources.
Use library catalogs to find books, videos, government documents, journals, magazines, and newspapers. The Davidson College Library Catalog contains information about materials owned by Davidson. WorldCat lists materials held in libraries around the world. If Davidson does not have a copy of what you need, use Interlibrary Loan to request it.
When searching for books and other materials in a catalog, try searching by keyword, author, or title. You may also search by Library of Congress subject headings. To locate appropriate subject headings, do a keyword search and then browse records. Helpful subject headings include:
- Authors, Russian
- Russia description and travel
- Russia history 1689-1801
- Russia history 1801-1917
- Russian literature
- Soviet literature
- Soviet Union description and travel
- Soviet Union history
To see electronic books held by Davidson, see ebrary, a collection of over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It covers all subject areas and includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
To see a list of helpful reference materials owned by Davidson College, click here.
Articles & Other Information Sources
Starting Points | Subject-Specific Databases
To find journals owned by the library, go to the Library Catalog, do a subject keyword search for your topic and limit your search by format to newspapers and periodicals. Clicking on the Periodicals link in the red bar on the library catalog search page will also allow you to browse journals by subject category.
Use the Library’s online indexes and databases to find articles from scholarly journals. Depending on your research interest, you may wish to search in general databases or discipline-specific ones. Here are some suggested databases:
- Starting Points
- Academic Search Premier
(1975 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 ?
- 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 Databases
Be sure to consult the resources in the reference works section above, especially the Literature Resource Center, as well as the indexes & databases pages too!
- Historical Abstracts & America: History & Life
(Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. (Each database can also be searched separately.)
Search Syntax:
- Truncation: use an asterisk *
- Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
- Wildcard: 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
(1926 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.
Search Syntax:
- Truncation: use an asterisk *
- Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
- Wildcard: use a question mark ?
- Periodicals Index Online
(c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
Search Syntax:
- Truncation: use an asterisk *
- Phrase searching: automatic
- Project Muse
Contains full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
Search Syntax:
- Truncation: use an asterisk *
- Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
- Social Sciences Abstracts
(1907 to present) 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 ?
Reference Works
Reference Universe | Style Guides | Biographical Sources | History & Culture | Literature
- Reference Universe
Don't know where to begin? Try Reference Universe, an index of the indexes in many of the library's reference books and e-books. Reference Universe will tell you which titles contain information on your topic.
- Style Guides & Citation Manuals
- The Bedford Handbook. Diana Hacker. 7th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006.
Little Library Reference Desk R 808.02 H118B7
- The Elements of Style. William Strunk, Jr. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.
Reference R 808.04 S927e
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
Little Library Reference Desk LB2369.G53 2009
- A Writer's Reference. Diana Hacker. 6th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007.
Little Library Reference Desk R 808.02 H118w
- Biographical Sources
- A Biographical Dictionary of the Soviet Union 1917-1988. Jeanne Vronskaya. London: K.G. Saur, 1989.
Reference R 920.047 V984b
- Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
- Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Ed. Marina Ledkovsky et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.
Reference R 891.7 D554
- Literature Resource Center
Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
Includes:
- Contemporary Authors
- The Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Russian Women Writers. Ed. Christine Tomei. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1999.
Reference R 928.9 R9691
- Who's Who in Russia since 1900. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Reference R 920.047 M123w
- History & Culture
- ARTstor
A collection of over 900,000 images covering art, architecture, and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods as well as tools to manipulate and analyze those images.
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. Ed. Archie Brown et al. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.
Reference R 947 C178 1994
- Credo Reference
A collection of electronic reference books. Useful for fact-checking and quick answers to questions. For more detailed information, be sure to search the Gale Virtual Reference Library too.
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. Ed. Tatiana Smorodinskaya et al. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Reference R 947.086 E56
- Encyclopedia of Russian History from the Christianization of Kiev to the Break-Up of the U.S.S.R. John Paxton. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1993.
Reference R 947 P342e
- Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic Myth and Legend. Mike Dixon-Kennedy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
Reference R 398.2 D621e
- Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements. Ed. Norma Corigliano Noonan and Carol Nechemias. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001.
Reference R 305.42 E561
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of over 120 electronic reference books, including:
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Ed. A.M. Prokhorov. 31 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1973-1983.
Reference R 0367 G786
- Historical Dictionary of Russia. Boris Raymond and Paul Duffy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.
Reference R 947 R268h
- The Routledge Atlas of Russian History. Martin Gilbert. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Reference R 912.47 G465r3
- Literature
- The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. Ross Murfin and Supryia M. Ray. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.
Reference R 801.95 M975b
- A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms. Edward Quinn. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
Reference R 803 Q7d
- Dictionary of Russian Literature since 1917. Wolfgang Kasack. Trans. Maria Carlson and Jane Hedges. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1988.
Reference R 891.7 K19L-T
- The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia. Kenneth Lantz. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004.
Reference R 891.7 D72yL
- Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Ed. Margaretta Jolly. 2 vols. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
Reference R 920.003 E56
- Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Ed. Steven Serafin. 3rd ed. 5 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999.
Reference R 803 E562 1999
- Handbook of Russian Literature. Ed. Victor Terras. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1985.
Reference R 891.7 H236
- A Handbook to Literature. William Harmon. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.
Reference R 803 H747h9
- Literature Resource Center
Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
Includes:
- Contemporary Authors
- Contemporary Literature Criticism Select
- Scriber Writers Series
- ... and substantial portions of titles in Gale's other literature criticism series
- The Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Literatures. Ed. Peter Rollberg. 10 vols. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1996- .
Reference R 891.703 M689
- Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Ed. Neil Cornwell. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
Reference R 891.703 R332
- 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
- Women and Writing in Russia and the USSR: A Bibliography of English-Language Sources. Diane Nemec Ignashev and Sarah Krive. New York: Garland, 1992.
Reference R 016.891 N443w
An earlier version of this guide was created by Susanna Boylston.
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