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Sources for Finding Stories, Criticism, and Biographies |
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- Locating a Copy of a Short Story:
- Bibliomania
- Includes both online copies of works of literature and
"study guides" for many works.
- *Short Stories
at East of the Web
- Contains full-text of both contemporary and classic short
stories.
- *Short Story Index REF PN 3310 C771 (many
vols.)
- Locate copies of short stories that have been published in
collections.
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- Biographies and Critical Writings
about Short Stories:
- *Critical Survey of Short Fiction REF PN 3321
C7 (7 vols.)
- Essays, alphabetical by author covering biographical as well
as general critical commentary.
- Encyclopedia
Britannica
- Scholarly general encyclopedia which is mostly useful for a
general overview of a writer's life, or a school or genre of
writing.
- *Literature Resource
Center
- A suite of online reference source to find biographical
information about authors and critical essays about the
author's writings.
- *Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism REF PN
44 M358 (4 vols.)
- A list of critical writings about major world literature,
including short stories. Search by author, then by story
title.
- *Short Story Writers REF PN 3373 S398 (3 vols.)
- Analytical essays with an overview of the writing of short
story writers.
- Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication REF PN 3310
W33 (several editions and supplements)
- A bibliography of critical analyses on short stories
published since 1800.
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Catalogs for Finding Books |
- Books are often the best source of information for topics
relating to literature. In many cases you will not find an entire
book on a subject, but will need to locate books broadly about
the topic and find a chapter within the book on your topic.
Use OSCAR
(the Milne Library online library catalog) to locate books in
Milne Library. Search by keyword for an author and criticism.
EXAMPLES: -
katherine mansfield and criticism
- *WebOSCAR
- Online catalog to the books and other materials at Milne
Library.
- WorldCAT
- Online catalog to materials in libraries world wide. Useful
to find books Milne Library doesn't have. These books may be
borrowed from other libraries through Interlibrary
Loan.
- netLibrary
- Provides electronic access to full text, scholarly books
that were originally published in print format.
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Databases for Finding Periodical Articles |
- What is a periodical?
Periodical, magazine,
and journal are
three terms often used interchangeably. A periodical is a
publication that comes out on a regular basis. It may be
published daily, weekly, quarterly, or in some other
increment. Information in periodicals tends to be more up to
date and briefer than that in books. Periodicals are located
alphabetically by title in the Periodical Room in the basement
of the library.
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- What is a periodical index?
Like the index in the back of a book that helps you
locate specific content within the book, periodical indexes
make it possible to find an article on a specific topic
without leafing through numerous issues of periodicals. The
following indexes are specifically useful for locating
articles in the field of philosophy.
Does Milne Library subscribe to the
magazine or journal? For those articles your search
find that include only a citation and/or an abstract you will need
to find and read the article. To find out if Milne has the journal
in the library connect to Web OSCAR and type in a combination
search that includes dt periodical and ti [words in title]
EXAMPLE: dt periodical and ti explicator
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| Databases
for Finding Periodical Articles |
- These are indexes to periodicals. Search by author's name or
by short story title.
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- *Arts and Humanities Search
- Available through FirstSearch.
A citation index. References to over 8000 arts and humanities
journals.
- *Expanded
Academic ASAP on InfoTrac
- A general periodical index containing abstracts and some
full text articles: indexes a small selection of psychology
journals. Limit your search to "refereed
publications" to restrict the results to journals.
- Humanities Abstracts on FirstSearch
- Available through FirstSearch.
Index (with abstracts) to about 350 journals in areas
including literature.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Available through FirstSearch.
Index to scholarly research in literature, linguistics, and
folklore.
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| Citing
Internet and Print Resources |
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- Paradigm Online Writing
Assistant
- An online guide to selecting your topic, organizing your
paper, and help writing various types of papers and essays.
- MLA
Style Format
- How to write a bibliography and citations, with examples.
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Created by Kay Benjamin April 18,
2001
Milne Library, SUNY College at Oneonta
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