English 336: Contemporary Drama

Resources Guide

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Finding Books

Books are often good sources of biographies and literary criticism.
  • Use Illinet Online (IO)to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 64 other Illinois academic and research libraries.

  • Sample Searches

      • Plays by Bertolt Brecht- choose Browse Author: Brecht, Bertolt

      • Works about a playwright- choose Browse Subject Words: Brecht, Bertolt

      • Plays by a playwright in a collection- choose Boolean search: Bertolt AND Brecht

      • Works about a play- choose Any Word, Anywhere (type the title in quotation marks): "The Good Person of Szechwan"

     

    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 the Requesting Books Owned by Other Illinet Libraries site 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.

 


 

Finding Scholarly Articles

 

  • 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 databases such as MLA Bibliography, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Literary Index. There are also external links to related, reviewed Internet web sites.

  • 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, all full text)

  • JSTOR ~ JSTOR is an online library currently containing more than 100 journals in 15 different disciplines. JSTOR collects titles up to the year 2000 if available. Current issues of journals are not in this database. (All full text)

  • Academic Search Premier ~Excellent generalist database with information about some of the more recent plays and playwrights, but articles are mostly reviews and/or from non-scholarly perspectives. Please review the Looking for Articles in Journals and Magazines: Scholarly or Popular? website.

 

        To access these resources 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.

       

    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):

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

     

    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 don't have the journal in our databases, you'll be given an option to check the catalog to see if we have the print version, or you'll be able to order it via Interlibrary Loan.

     

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Internet Resources

Plays and Playwrights

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Evaluating & Citing Internet Resources

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This page was created 11/1/1999 by Anne Jordan Baker, last updated 10/10/2005 by J. Hill, librarian, Elmhurst College