Eng 371: Moderism/ Postmodernism

• Finding Books

• Accessing Library Resources from Off Campus

• Finding Articles

• Internet Resources

• Evaluating Internet Resources

• Citing Sources

• 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.

• Sample "Browse Subject" searches:

  Modernism (Literature)

  Postmodernism (Literature)

  Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism

  American literature--Women authors

  United States -- History
  

• Finding literary works by and about your author

• Works by an author- Browse Author: Woolf, Virgina

• Works by an author in a collection- Boolean Search: Woolf AND Virginia

• Works about an author, or about their work- Browse Subject: Woolf, Virginia

 

• 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 resource from off campus, go to the Articles and Databases page, and choose Literature Resource Center. There are instructions for password access right under the description of the database).

• 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 Articles and Databases page, and choose JSTOR).

• 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)

How do I find out if the Library has the journal I need?

• Full Text Periodicals Available Online ~ Search for the journal/magazine title, e.g. Western Journal of Communication or Newsweek.

• Check Illinet Online for the journal/magazine title (not the article title), e.g. Journal of Communication.

• 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.

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

• Yahoo! Directory listing of literature and author websites ~a great place to start you Internet search when looking for literary work-, genre- or author- specific website.

• Voice of the Shuttle: Modern (Britsh and Amercian) ~a resource on modernist authors and literary works

• Voice of the Shuttle: Postmodern Theory~ Good starting souce for postmodern resource material

• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

• How to Evaluate the Sources You Find

• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools

• Citing Sources