World Literature in English

Use Illinet Online (IO)to find books held in the Elmhurst College library

Finding books by or about an author:

• Works by an author- Browse Author: Voltaire

• Works by an author in a collection- Boolean Search: Anita AND Desai

• Works about an author, or about Voltaire's work- Browse Subject: Camus, Albert

   

When Elmhurst College doesn't have the material you need, expand your search. Try the following:

1. Search All Illinet Online libraries- select All ILCSO libraries, then repeat your search - you can place your own requests by selecting Request, then entering your ID (currently your SSN) and last name and following the instructions on the screens. If you have trouble placing requests, please contact the Reference Desk (630-617-3173).

2. WorldCat is a world-wide catalog. Search for your book, then request the book through interlibrary loan.

3. SWAN - the Suburban Library System catalog, including Elmhurst Public Library and many other local public library catalogs.

• 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.

• Twayne Authors Series ~ This series provides criticism of the works of major U.S., English, and world authors from Aristophanes to the present. Author entries range from 175-200 pages.

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

• BGMI (Biography and Genealogy Master Index) ~This database indexes any print resource containing biographical information on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. Once you find a citation, you must then look in the corresponding text.

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

Critical Articles

• 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?

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

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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Note: all Internet sites must be reviewed as to content, accuracy, authority, relevancy and other factors. Do not simply accept Internet information as factual or accurate.

• Google Author Directory ~a Google-compiled list of websites devoted to authors, arranged alphabetically

• Yahoo! Author Directory ~a Yahoo!-compiled list of websites, may overlap with the Google directory

• Interent Public Library Literary Criticism Site ~another alphabetically-arranged author directory

• Librarian's Index to the Internet Author Directory ~this is a librarian-reviewed site of author-specific webpages