Eng 112 – Library Research Workshop

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Magazine and Journal Databases

 

Academic Search Premier - EBSCO
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access

 

OmniFile Fulltext Mega - Wilson Web
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Standard CatalogsEducation Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. 
Off-Campus Access

 

Project Muse 
Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and  humanities, social sciences and mathematics. 
Off-Campus Access

 

ProQuest Newsstand Complete - Proquest
An accessible and thorough Web-based, full-text database of over 350 newspapers that enables users to search the latest news from around the world. Access a wide range of articles, not only top new stories, but arts, sports, and entertainment stories as well. ProQuest Newsstand Complete title list
Off-Campus Access

 

Reference Books

 

Encyclopedia Britannica. REF. AE5 .E363 1998.  Don’t forget to use the INDEX!

 

Encyclopedia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/

Britannica.com includes the complete, updated Encyclopædia Britannica, the oldest and largest general reference in  the English language. Selected articles from more than 70 of the world's top magazines--including Newsweek,  Discover, and The Economist--provide additional feature and current-events coverage. Our guide to the Web's best sites includes more than 125,000 sites, and you can also search the text of more than 100 million Web pages to find more information. The Books in Print database is available through Britannica.com, and you can follow links from these citations to order books online from Barnes & Noble. All these databases, including a collection of special online Spotlights, can be accessed through a single search.

 

Encyclopedia of the Novel. REF. PN41 .E487 1998

 

Drama Criticism. REF. PN1601 .D59

 

Novels for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism  

REF. PN3365 .N68 1997

 

Selected Internet Sites for Locating Information on Literature

 

MSUM Library’s Search Engines Site:

http://web.mnstate.edu/library/instruct/search.htm

 

MSUM Library’s “Evaluating WWW Resources” Site:

http://web.mnstate.edu/library/instruct/evaluate.htm

 

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature:

http://vos.ucsb.edu

 

The English Server (Carnegie Mellon University)

http://www.english.uiowa.edu/faculty/snider/links.html

 

The World Lecture Hall

http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

 

Yahoo: Literature

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/

Includes categories of web sites such as: Authors; Periods & Movements; Classics; Magazines.

 

Some suggested Author-specific sites for starting points:

 

New York Times – Featured Subject: Edward Albee

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/08/15/specials/al://bee.html

 

A Raisin in the Sun-detailed book review

http://www.allreaders.com/topics/info_25506.asp

 

The Crucible Project

http://www.curriculumunits.com/crucible/

 

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mailto:goodmanb@mnstate.edu

 

6/28/05

dewald@mnstate.edu

 

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