• Finding Books and Background Information

• Evaluating Internet Resources

• Finding Articles

• Internet Resources

• Accessing Library Resources from Off Campus

• MLA Citation Resources

• Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by over 65 other Illinois academic libraries. To find books written about an author, choose "browse subject" and enter the author's name:

Keats, John

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Also try a "Guided keyword" search using the author's name or the book title, and include other keywords, such as:

Frankenstein AND criticism

Browning, Robert AND interpretation

• Ordering books from other libraries ~ Don't limit yourself solely to Elmhurst Library's collection. Search all 65 member libraries with your search term by clicking on "Repeat search in All ILCSO Libraries" at the top of the page. If you need to order your books, do so as soon as possible: titles can take between 7-10 days to arrive.

Historical (more titles available in the 940s)

• Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland. Reference area call number R942.003 C178.

• Victorian Britian: An Encyclopedia. Reference Area call number R944.081 V645

Literary (more titles available in the 820s)

• British Authors of the 19th Century. Reference Area call number R820.90003 C178

• The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Reference Area call number R820.99287 B634f

• British Writers, v.1-8 plus supplements. Reference Area call number R820.9 B862

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• Gale's Literature Resource Center ~ An extremely powerful search tool, the LRC "provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline." Includes full-text aricles from the Dictionary of Literary Biography. You can also search other databases on this site, such as MLA Bibliography (some full-text available) and Literary Index. There are also external links to related, reviewed Internet web sites.

To access this database from off campus, you will need to enter the following ID when prompted: elmhurst. Then click the "Proceed" button.

• Project Muse ~Project MUSE is an online library of nearly 200 journals from Johns Hopkins University Press, with the full text of articles from 1996 to the present. Journals in this collection cover primarily the humanities and the social sciences. (Available on-campus only)

• JSTOR ~ JSTOR is an online library currently containing more than 100 journals in 15 different disciplines. JSTOR does not include current issues of journals, but is an electronic archives of titles, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. All full text.

(To access this resource from off campus, go to the Electronic Journals and Newspapers page, and choose JSTOR).

How do I find out if the Library has the journal I need? Follow these 3 steps:

1. Full Text Periodicals Available Online ~ Search for the journal/magazine title, e.g. Chaucer Review.

2. Check Illinet Online for the journal/magazine title (not the article title), e.g. Studies in English Literature.

3. To order an article the Elmhurst College library does not own, fill in this form: Request an article.

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These sites are best used as starting points to help you find general information about your author or literary work/ time period: some sites even contain online full-text publications, essays and articles. Note: online web sites must be reviewed as to content, accuracy and authority.

Evaluated Sites (another authority has reviewed these websites)

• Librarian's Index to the Internet ~reviewed author-related websites.

• Voice of the Shuttle: British Literature page ~excellent collection of Internet American literature resources.

• Internet Public Library Literature Resources ~ another pre-evaluated website with author and period resources

Unevaluated Sites

• Yahoo! Directory listing of literature and author websites ~a great place to start your Internet search when looking for title, genre or author- specific web sites.

• Google Directory Author listing ~a general British Literature time-period directory maintained by Google.

• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

• Looking for Articles in Journals and Magazines: Scholarly or Popular?

• MLA Citation Resources