McQuade Library Guide to Research

 

ENG2050
Introduction to Literary Studies

Professor:
Dr. Paul Vatalaro

Librarian:
Lyena Chavez

 

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Subscription Library Databases

For off campus access, enter 14-digit number on back of your MackCard

Literature Databases

Literature Resource Center w/MLA (Gale) Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. LRC covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors

Click here to search MLA citations directly.
Literary Reference Center (Ebsco) Contains full text for 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies (including 20,000 in-depth bios), 350 literary journals, 535,000 book reviews, 54,000 classic and contemporary poems, 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories, 4,000 author interviews, 8,400 classic texts and much more.
Contemporary Literary Criticism A collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.

Other Databases

Academic Search Premier
ACLS Humanities E-Book
JSTOR

Project Muse
Journals indexed such as New Literary History,
 Philosophy and Literature, Eighteenth Century Studies
Literature and Medicine, and more
PsycINFO
SocINDEX

Online Full-Text Newspapers

For off campus access, enter 14-digit number on back of ID
Massachusetts Newspapers
Includes Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and Worcester Telegram & Gazette
National Newspapers
Offers online access to some of the most respected newspapers from all over the country, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, etc.

Selected Reference Books

General Encyclopedias

New Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Americana

Subject Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks

Dictionary of Art

Encyclopedia of Psychology

Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming

Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism

Encyclopedia of World Art

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Use Reference Universe to find more reference titles on your topic.

Or, search the NOBLE catalog to locate books on your specific topic:

NOBLE WebCat

Locating Materials

Journal Finder Magazine or Journal?
Interlibrary Loan Request Form - Books Interlibrary Loan Request Form - Articles

Selected Internet Resources

Ethical Use of Information

How To Cite Sources | Academic Integrity at Merrimack College
Avoiding Plagiarism (interactive tutorial)


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