To access our databases from off-campus, click on this link on the library's main page (enter your ID and password when prompted):



Note: there is no printing capability for off-campus users. You must e-mail articles to your email account in order to print them.

Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 65 other Illinois academic libraries. Enter relevant key words, or to be more specific, enter your subject as a "Browse Subject" term in the search box.

• Finding literary works by and about your author

  Books about an author, or about their work- Browse Subject: Cather, Willa

Books written by an author- Browse Author: Virgil

 

If you can't find what you're looking for at our library, click on "Repeat search in All ILCSO Libraries" at the top of the page. If you find a book that you'd like to order, then visit Requesting Books Owned by Other Illinet Libraries for ordering instructions.

Note: If you find books that you need to interlibrary loan, order them as soon as possible! They take 7-10 days) to arrive.

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• Gale's Literature Resource Center ~excellent in-depth information about authors, including critical articles, bibliographies, and related websites. Al full text.

• MLA International Bibliography ~comprehensive international database with critical journal articles, dissertations, and books. Some full text available.

• Project Muse ~full text of over 200 humanities and the social sciences journals articles, from 1996 to the present.

• JSTOR ~ JSTOR collects titles up to the year 2000 if available. Current issues of journals are not in this database. All full text.

So you found an article in one of our databases, but it's not full-text. Now what? Don't fret. Look for these buttons: , or , or this line of text: (Find this resource with SFX) next to the article citation on the search screen. Clicking on this will take you to a list of our full-text sources that carry the journal, if we have it.

 

Can't find anything? Try searching database groupings or all databases at once with this link (note: this is last resort...you'll often get lots of specious results):

Search for articles in multiple databases simultaneously using WebFeat.

Type your keywords in the search box(es), check your relevant subject area or "All Resources" and click "Go."

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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.

Directory websites containing listings on authors and specific literary works, genres

• Google Directory Author listing (by nationality)~an author directory maintained by Google.

• Yahoo! Directory listing of literature and author websites ~another directory site.

Online Literary Criticism Journals

• Internet Public Library's Online Literary Criticism Directory~ this well-known website has an extensive directory of links to online scholarly literary criticism journals

• Voice of the Shuttle~ another useful guide to online literature journals

   

• Citing in MLA: A Quick Reference page ~from Duke University Libraries

• Other Online Citation Sources

• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

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

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