Turning the Century
English 935

How to Find:
Books | Journal Articles | Web Sites | Citing Sources

FINDING BOOKS

Using Catalogs to locate books:

1.) Ariadne

• Search by Keyword
• Find and Use Subject Headings
• Browse the shelves by Call Number

2.) MeLCat

• 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

Subject Headings - Examples

English Literature 19th Century

English Literature 19th Century History And Criticism

American Literature 19th Century

American Literature 19th Century History And Criticism

Call Numbers - Example

PR 6037 .T617 D7865 1998
Dracula : between tradition and modernism / Carol A. Senf

P LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
PR English literature
6037 1900-1960, Individual Authors, last name beginning with S
.T617 Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912

See also: Library of Congress Classification...

Guides, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• The 1890s: an encyclopedia of British literature, art, and culture, DA560 .A18 1993, Reference.
• The gay nineties in America: a cultural dictionary of the 1890s, E169.1 .G26 1992, Reference.
• Twentieth-century literary criticism, PN771 .G27, Reference.
• Dictionary Of Literary Biography, PS221 .D45, Reference.

Circulating Collection

• London in the 1890s: a cultural history, PR468.D43 B43 1993
• The American 1890s; life and times of a lost generation, PS214 .Z5
• American thought and writing: the 1890's, PS658 .P5 American thought and writing: the 1890's, PS658 .P5
• The Cambridge companion to George Bernard Shaw, PR5367 .C27 1998
• Oscar Wilde and the theatre of the 1890s, PR5827.D7 P6 1990 Oscar Wilde and the theatre of the 1890s, PR5827.D7 P6 1990

Books at Western Michigan University

• Decadence and the 1890s, PR469.D4 D4 1980
• Aesthetes and decadents of the 1890's; an anthology of British poetry and prose, PR1145 .A33 1981

See also the English Research Guide: Finding Books.

Scholarly journals and Popular Magazines/Newspapers

Scholarly Journals

• 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

• Authors are free lance 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).

Scholarly or Not?
Use Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Ref. Desk Z6941 .U5)
Look for section called "Document Type"
Document Type MUST say "Academic/Scholarly Publication" to be considered scholarly!

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES  

Off-Campus Access to Licensed Resources

Advanced Search Help

See Also the English Research Guide to Finding Articles.

What Journals does the Library Own?

• In paper - Check Ariadne - search on your discipline or subject area, and in Step 2, limit the location to "Periodicals"
  • Or - Search Ariadne for a specific journal - enter the journal title into the Ariadne Title Search
• Online - Check Online Journals at K - to find out what online journals the Library subscribes to

Which index includes the journal I'm looking for?

• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory < about >

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

MLA Bibliography < about >
The Modern Language Association International Bibliography indexes 3,000 English language and foreign periodicals as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations. Its subject matter includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Reviews of literary and scholarly works are not included. There are no abstracts. Dates Covered: 1963 - Present.

Historical Abstracts < about >
Historical Abstracts is a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954. Access through ABC-CLIO.

Humanities Abstracts < about >
Humanities Abstracts is a bibliographic database that covers English language periodicals in the diverse subject areas of the humanities. Humanities Abstracts offers detailed abstracts describing the content and scope of source articles.
Coverage: Indexing - 1984 - present; Abstracting - 1994 - present.

19th century Readers' guide to periodical literature
Reference Storage, AI3 .R22, Library has: vols. 1-2.

Poole's index to periodical literature
Reference Storage, AI3 .P7, Library has: vols. 1-6, 1802-1906.

Essay and General Literature Index
A good source for locating literary criticism in collections of essays.
Reference Storage, AI3 . Es73 Library has: vol 1 - 1900 - 2001

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

3.) WestCat - Western Michigan's catalog

• Title search on Title of the Journal
• Waldo Library - Hours and How to get to Western

4.) Interlibrary Loan

• Order item through Interlibrary Loan
  
• Use *only* when the journal is not available through Ariadne or Online Journals at K

FULL-TEXT RESOURCES

Online Journals at K

OmniFile < about >
Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database is comprised of records from the following databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Business Abstracts.
(Please note that each periodical can begin on a different month and year.)
Dates Covered: 1994-Present.

Project Muse < about >
Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University, to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the world wide web. In general, Literary Theory & American Studies journals begin with the 1995 volume, while most others start with 1996.
Included Journals:

JSTOR < about >
JSTOR includes the complete runs of 117 important journal titles in 15 disciplines, with 112 journals currently available. JSTOR's focus is on becoming a trusted archive and does not publish current issues of the journals. JSTOR has established a lag period, called the moving wall, that defines the point at which the JSTOR archive stops, and "current" issues start. In some cases, the moving wall is three years (meaning the last issue available in the JSTOR archive would be one published three years ago); in other cases it is five years.
Included Journals:

NOTE: Don't forget to use print bibliographies contained in reference books, annotated bibliographies, circulating books, and journal articles.

WEB SITES

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 Literature.

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

• Academic Info English Literature
  An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources on British & Irish Literature.
• Academic Info American Literature
  An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources.
• American and English Language Internet Resources
  Maintained by Winnie Shyam Associate Librarian, Head of Reference Page, Buley Library, Southern Connecticut State University.
• The 1890's Society: 1890s Links
  Produced and maintained by Steven Halliwell and the Eighteen Nineties Society.
• The American 1890s: A Chronology
  Bowling Green State University American Culture Studies Program. Maintained by Ken Dvorak, ACS Media Lab.
• The Gilded Page
  A collection of electronic texts written by US authors or widely read by Americans in the Gilded Age (loosely defined here as 1866-1901). Maintained by Scott Nelson at William and Mary College.

Use these points to evaluate the credibility of Websites:

1. Accuracy
How reliable is the information? Are there editors and fact checkers?
2. Authority
What are the author's qualifications? Is the publisher reputable?
3. Objectivity
Is the author trying to sway opinion? Is the information free from bias?
4. Currency
Is the publication date indicated? Is the source up to date?
5. Coverage
Does the site cover the topic comprehensively, or are there information gaps?

Sites that provide guidance on evaluating Websites:

• Evaluating Web Resources
  Widener University Library
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
  Johns Hopkins University Library
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Resources
  New Mexico State University Library
• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
  UCLA College Library

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.)

Book citation:

Beckson, Karl E. London in the 1890s: a Cultural History. New York : W.W. Norton,
	(1993).

Journal Citation:

Dowling, Linda. "The Decadent and the New Woman in the 1890's." Nineteenth-
	Century Fiction 33 (1979): 434-53.

Chapter in a Book:

Hapgood, Lynne. "Urban Utopias: Socialism, Religion and the City, 1880 to 1900."
	Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle. Ed. Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken.
	New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
5th ed., New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1999.
Reference, LB2369 .G53 1999.

MLA Style
From The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center.

MLA Style
From the Modern Language Association. Offers some examples of citing electronic resources.