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Kalamazoo College Upjohn Library

Romantic Revolutions
English 267
English Research Guide
English Department
 

How to Find
Books | Book Chapters |Reference Books | Journal Articles | Web Sites | Citing Sources

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Finding Books

Using Catalogs to Find Books:

    1.) Ariadne
    • Search by Keyword
    • Find and Use Subject Headings
    • Browse the shelves by Call Number
    2.) MeLCat (now includes Western's libraries)
    • Search by Keyword
    • Find and Use Subject Headings
    • About MeLCat
    3.) WestCat - Western Michigan's catalog
    • Search by Keyword
    • Find and Use Subject Headings
    • Browse the shelves by Call Number
    • Waldo Library: Hours and How to get to Western
    4.) WorldCat and 5.) Interlibrary Loan
    • Search by Keyword
    • Find and Use Subject Headings
    • Order item through Interlibrary Loan

Examples of Books available at K's Library:

See also: Library of Congress Classification...

Western Michigan's Waldo Library - Hours and How to get to Western


Book Chapters

To find chapters in books, search in the four places listed above for finding books.

To find chapters within books, do a keyword search on your topic, whether your topic is an idea, a period of history, or a person. A keyword search will search multiple fields of the record for a book, such as title, author, contents, etc.

Example: Frankenstein
Example: gothic impulse

In Ariadne, you can use a keyword search to find your topic specifically in the contents note field, where chapter titles are listed. To search the note field, your search would look like this:

Example: n:rights of woman

If your topic is within the field of literature, you can also find book chapters in the MLA Bibliography (an index to the fields of language and literature).

MLA International Bibliography < about >
Produced by the Modern Language Association.
Critical works on literature and languages.
Covers publications from 1963 to the present.

In the MLA Bibliography, you can limit your search to book chapters by choosing "book article" in the Document Type Phrase option.

Essay and General Literature Index < about >
Cites essays contained in anthologies and collections published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada.
Coverage spans the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film.


Reference Books

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Ref. PS221 .D45
347 volume set covering all areas of literature. Use index in most recent volume to locate your topic.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British literature, Ref. PR19 .O95 2006
Five-volume set, good for brief overviews on lots of topics.


 

 Finding Journal Articles: Using Indexes

See the English Research Guide: Using Indexes and Databases to help select an Index.

MLA Bibliography < about >
The Modern Language Association International Bibliography indexes thousands of publications, including articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations. Subjects included: literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
There are no abstracts
.
Coverage: 1926 - Present.

Humanities Abstracts < about >
Humanities Abstracts is a bibliographic database that covers English language periodicals in the diverse subject areas of the humanities.
Coverage: Indexing - 1984 - present; Abstracting - 1994 - present.

Arts and Humanities Search < about >
Coverage: 1980 - Present.

Essay and General Literature Index < about >
Cites essays contained in anthologies and collections published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Coverage spans the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film. Indexing: 1985 to present.

History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences

Historical Abstracts < about > the World, excluding the US and Canada,1450 to the present.

Philosopher's Index < about >

PsycINFO < about > Psychology

Social Sciences Abstracts < about >

Is a particular journal covered in a specific Index?

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Online < about >
Which journals are in which FirstSearch databases

Do you have access to a journal?  

    1.) Ariadne (print)
    • Title search on Title of the Journal to locate print journal
    2.) Online Journals at K
    • Title search on Title of the Journal to locate article in a Full Text Database

Types of Periodicals

Scholarly Journals (Studies in English literature, 1500-1900)

  • Authors are scholars or researchers in their fields.
  • Authors cite their sources in footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies.
  • Individual issues have little or no advertising.
  • Articles must go through a peer-review process.
  • Articles usually report original scholarly research.
  • Most illustrations are charts, figures, or graphs.
  • Authors use the specialized language or jargon of the discipline.

Popular Magazines (Atlantic Monthly)

  • Authors are freelance writers or magazine staff members.
  • Authors may mention sources, but rarely cite them in notes or bibliographies.
  • Individual issues contain many advertisements.
  • There is no peer review process. Articles are reviewed by editors or publishers.
  • Illustrations are numerous and colorful.
  • Articles are meant to inform and entertain an educated audience.
  • Language is written for the general adult audience (no specialized jargon).

Is it Scholarly? Look it up in Ulrich's Online!

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Online < about >
Look for section called "Document Type"
Document Type MUST say "Academic/Scholarly Publication" to be considered scholarly!


Full Text Databases

JSTOR < about >
Full text database of scholarly journals in many disciplines.

Project Muse < about >
Project MUSE offers the full text of Johns Hopkins University Press scholarly journals.

Proquest < about >
Fulltext database with scholarly and popular sources. You can select to search only peer-reviewed journals.

Full Text Databases that include a mix of Scholarly and Popular sources:

Academic OneFile < about >

Expanded Academic ASAP < about >

General Reference Center Gold < about >

Wilson Select Plus < about >


 Websites

To find Web sites, use search engines and web indexes. See Finding Web Sites and Web Indexes and Directories. See also Finding Web Sites on English .

WorldCat < about >
WorldCat contains bibliographic citations for high-quality Web sites on a variety of subjects. When you search for Web sites in World Cat, remember to check the box for "Internet Resources" in the section called "Limit type to". Sites that emphasizes quality, authoritativeness, and durability are selected, according to World Cat's collection development policy.

Recommended Web Sites:

Romanticism from the Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750
created by Alan Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbara, English Department.

Romantic Circles
http://www.rc.umd.edu/
Refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture, published by the University of Maryland.

Literary Resources - Romantic
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/romantic.html
collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers, Newark.

A Romantic Natural History
http://users.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/
A website designed to survey relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859).

British Association for Romantic Studies
http://www.bars.ac.uk/resources/barsresources.php?menu=5
Has a useful list of links.

British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
http://www.bsecs.org.uk/

RaVon, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/

The Sickly Taper, a bibliography of Gothic scholarship
http://thesicklytaper.pagedepot.com/INDEX.html

The William Blake Archive
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

Sites that provide guidance on evaluating Websites:


 Citing Your Sources

See: How to Cite Sources

See also Citing Sources for help in citing print and electronic resources in various bibliographic styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.)

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
6th ed., New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
Reference, LB2369 .G53 2003.

ALWAYS check the style manual!! DO NOT rely on other guides!