English 1302/2342 – Fall 2009
Library Instruction
I. Finding a Book: Search the El Paso Community
College Library Catalog by:
KEYWORDS
SUBJECT
AUTHOR
TITLE
CALL NUMBER
AUTHOR/TITLE
Literature Print Sources available at RG:
Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Critical Survey of Poetry
Masterplots II: Short Story Series
Modern Women Writers
Moulton’s Library of Literary Criticism
Shakesperean Criticism (V. 1-15)
Short Story Criticism
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
II. Finding Periodicals (Magazine, Journal, Newspaper) - Search Online Databases
Literature Databases:
Literary Reference Center [Full Text | Ebsco | Off-campus access] A literary database that includes author biographies and
interviews, plot summaries and work overviews, criticism, literary journals, book reviews, and full text for selected poems, short stories,
and classic books. Also includes a citation tool and literary glossary. Includes Masterplots and Masterplots II as well as the Bloom
Series on Literary Criticism. (Does not duplicate information Gale’s Literature Resource Center.)
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?site=lrc
Literature Resource Center [Full Text | GaleGroup | Off-campus access] Biographies, bibliographies, and literary criticism covering
"literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and more." Includes
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Gale Literary Index.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/servlet/GLD
Twentieth-Century American Poetry [Full Text | Chadwyck | Off-campus Access] A collection of 50,000 American poems drawn from
750 volumes by over 300 poets such as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, and Cathy Song.
http://collections.chadwyck.com
Twentieth-Century English Poetry [Full Text | Chadwyck | Off-campus Access] A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets
from 1900 to the present day such as W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, and Thomas Hardy. http://collections.chadwyck.com
Examples of General Databases:
Academic Search Complete [Full Text | Ebsco | Off-campus access] A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database,
with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Includes indexing and abstracts for more than 10,900
publications. Features a majority of native (searchable) PDF content, some dating as far back as 1865.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=a9h
eLibrary Curriculum Edition [Full Text | ProQuest | Off-campus access] Includes full-text of 2,500 television and radio transcripts,
magazines, journals and newspapers, maps, pictures and excerpts from books. Curriculum edition offers information from ProQuest
Learning: Literature and History Study Center. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/ce
Academic OneFile [Full Text | Galegroup | Off-campus access] Provides peer-reviewed articles from over 8,000 academic journals
and reference sources, the majority in full-text. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the
arts, theology, literature and other subjects. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/servlet/AONE
SIRS Knowledge Source [Full Text | SIRS Mandarin | Off-campus access] Made up of Reporter (govt. documents), Researcher
(controversial topics), and Renaissance (arts and humanites). Full text articles. Updated biweekly. http://sks.sirs.com
III.
Internet Sources: Criteria for Evaluating Resources on the Web:
Authority, Accuracy, Objectivity, Currency, Coverage – Useful search engines: Google, alltheweb.com
Literary Resources on the Net - www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit
Library Spot – Literary Criticism - www.libraryspot.com/litcrit.htm
For bibliographic citation help:
Research and Documentation Online (Diana Hacker) http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
Diana Hacker Documenting sources in MLA Style: 2009 Update http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/pdf/Hacker-MLAupdates.pdf
(Note: This is a free 60 page PDF download supplement to 6th ed. of A Writers Reference
MLA Style Sheet (Northwest Library) http://www.epcc.edu/ftp/Homes/monicaw/citingmla.htm
APA Style Sheet (Rio Grande Library) http://www.epcc.edu/Portals/125/PDF/APA_Style_Sheet_jan09.pdf
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