LIBRARIES
Introduction to Library Resources and
Services for English Graduate Students
Friday, September 4, 2015
Vince Graziano
English Librarian
vince.graziano@concordia.ca
Overview of Library Services
 Interlibrary Loans – COLOMBO
 Click on Create Request (if necessary)
 Library PIN required
 Article Delivery (2 working days)
 Via an online form, articles from our printed/microform
collection will be scanned into PDF and delivered via e-mail
 Login with Concordia NetName
 BCI card (formerly CREPUQ)
 Request at Circulation Desk
 Graduate Study Carrels
 Webster 4th floor
 Request at Circulation Desk
Electronic Journals
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Project MUSE (Recent issues)
JSTOR (Older issues)
Oxford Journals (recent and archive)
Literature Online (LION)
Literature Resource Center
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
British Periodicals I and II (1681-1920)
American Periodicals (1741-1940)
Periodicals Archive Online (1802-2000)
Many other electronic journal collections
Electronic Books
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Literature Online (LION)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) – 1473-1700
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
Early Canadiana Online (until c. 1925)
Oxford Scholarship Online (recent and ongoing)
Cambridge University Press e-books (1995-2007)
Project MUSE Ebooks (university presses)
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection (ongoing)
Palgrave Macmillan (2010-)
ACLS Humanities E-books
Canadian Publishers Collection
EBSCO E-books
Many other electronic books
Databases for Literary Criticism
 MLA International Bibliography:
 References to articles in 4,400 journals from 1926 onward
 ABELL:
 British equivalent to MLAIB
 From 1920 onward
 Literature Resource Center:
 Contains 260 full text periodicals, both academic and non-academic
 Literature Criticism Online:
 Full text or selections of full text of essays and articles re-published in
the following reference works: Shakespearean, Poetry, Drama, Short
Story, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
 This database is NOT updated
RefWorks
 RefWorks is a Web-based tool that:
 Facilitates organization of references
 Is accessible from any Internet connection
 Simplifies the process of preparing bibliographies
 Access RefWorks through the Quick Links
menu on the Library website
 Help
 Tutorials on Library website
Help is Available
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At the Reference Desk
Library website
Literatures in English Research Guide
Ask a Librarian
 E-mail form
 Chat with a Librarian
 Ask Vince:
 514-848-2424, ext. 7689
 vince.graziano@concordia.ca
 Office hours: by appointment