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 the I-Share Catalog to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 64 other Illinois academic and research libraries. Enter relevant key words, or to be more specific, enter your subject as a Browse Subject term in the search box.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (insert title of play here)

• Ordering books from other libraries ~ Don't limit yourself solely to Elmhurst Library's collection. Search all 65 member libraries by clicking on "Repeat search in All I-Share Libraries" at the top of the page. Order your books as soon as possible: titles can take between 7-10 days to arrive.

• 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, as well as online full-text publications, essays and articles. These sites also have links to other related web sites. Note: online web sites must be reviewed as to content, accuracy and authority.

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet ~ Easily one of the best online guides to online Shakespearian resources.

• Yahoo! Directory listing of Shakespeare's works ~an excellent directory of internet web sites, broken down by subject and title.

• Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS) Journal ~a free searchable online scholarly journal with many Shakespeare articles.

• Shakespeare Resource Center

• 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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