Key Resources:
*For
Finding Background Information:
- Consult
Reference Materials: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Manuals,
Handbooks, etc
- Call
Number Category: P - Language and Literature (PN: General; PR: British
Literature; PS: American Literature)
- Use OED online; use literary dictionaries on the Web
- Use other
electronic general reference materials from the Library's General
Reference Sources page
- Use Literature
Resource Center for fulltext essays from various reference sources
* For Finding
Books and Primary Sources:
- Use the ODU Library Online Catalog to find out what books ODU library owns
-
Use Literature
Resource Center for some fulltext secondary source materials
(eg,Twayne)
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Use Full
Text Collections available on the Web
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Use WorldCat or Books
In Print to identify other relevant book materials and who owns
them (Worldcat)
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Use Other
Library Catalogs (Virginia
Tidewater Consortium) to find out what's in the area
- Use Interlibrary
Loan to obtain materials we don't own
* For Finding
Periodical Articles:
- Consult "Databases"
option by subject "Literature." Best options:
MLA
Bibliography (languages & literature; some full
text; includes MLA Directory of Periodicals)
Literature
Resource Center (some full text articles under tab "Literary Criticism, Articles...")
Arts
& Humanities Citation Index (citations only; includes
cited references)
Academic
Search Complete (all subjects -- selected full-text)
- Consult Journals,
Magazines, Newspapers by title for ODU journal availability --
print and electronic (Project
Muse and JStor are useful collections of fulltext articles in humanities and social-sciences)
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Consult Other
Library Catalogs for journals locally
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Use WorldCat to identify journal availability throughout the world (and locally)
- Use Interlibrary
Loan to obtain journal articles we don't own
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Use MLA
Directory (select advanced option in MLA) or Ulrich's
Periodical Directory for journal info
* For Finding Other Resources:
- Use Dissertations & Theses Full Text (includes full text for many items back to the early 1990s; indexing for items back to 1861)
- Use Arts & Humanities Citaiton Index through the Web of Science to search by cited reference or cited author.
--> For more good resources for literature,
click here for "Subject Guides : Literature"
Search Tips:
To refresh your memory and learn more about search
strategy, truncation, wildcards, Boolean searching, phrase searching,
limiters, etc. click here
Other Information:
- MLA
Citation Style and other citation styles are available on the
General Reference Sources page under "Style Manuals & Writing
Guides"
- ODU provides access to EndNote, a citation management tool that is useful for gathering, organizing and formatting citations
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