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Other Times, Other Places
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| Reference Sources
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| Title | Location |
| Civil rights in the United States | Ref E184.A1 C47 2000 |
| Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights : from emancipation to the present | Ref E185.61 .E54 1992 |
| The encyclopedia of civil rights in America | Ref E185.61 .E544 1998 |
| The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to the twenty-first century | Ref E185.61 .E54 2003 |
| The historical atlas of World War II | Ref G1038 .P55 1995 |
| The Oxford companion to World War II | Ref D740 .O94 1995 |
| Encyclopedia of World War II : a political, social and military history | Ref D740 .E516 2005 |
| World War II in Europe : an encyclopedia | Ref D740 .W67 1999 |
| The historical atlas of World War I | Ref G1037 .L55 1994 |
| World War I : a visual encyclopedia | Ref D522 .W675 2002 |
| British writers. Retrospective supplement I | Ref PR85 .B688 Retro Suppl. 1 |
| Books | |
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find books on your topic, search ALCUIN,
the Library's online catalog, by subject or keyword. ALCUIN supports most
of the standard searching techniques we discussed in class, including
Boolean Operators (AND, OR), Nesting (using parentheses), and Truncation
(using the asterisk *). You might, for example, might want to do a keyword
search such as the following: liter* and (civil rights or race) To find books of criticism on a particular author's work, do a subject search for the author's name (inverted) and look for the subheading "criticism and interpretation." The entry for Virginia Woolf, for example, is Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation |
| Articles | |
| Title | Description |
| Academic Search Premier | Academic Search Premier is an interdisciplinary database, covering a broad range of subjects. It contains indexing for 8,172 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. |
| Humanities Full Text | "H.W. Wilson's Humanities databases cover nearly 400 English language periodicals in the diverse subject areas of the humanities. Among the disciplines included are literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology." Coverage: Astracts, March 1994 - present. Fulltext, January 1995 - present (96 titles). |
| M.L.A | "The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats." |
| Literary Index | Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source. Gale's Literary Index provides quick and easy access to 40 of our literary series. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.Titles Indexed. |
| Literature Resource Center | Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes access to the Scribner Writer's Series and Twayne World, Twayne US, and Twayne English Authors. |
| LION | A fully searchable library
of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose,
plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Also includes the full text of 103 literature journals. |
| Lexis-Nexis | Useful for finding reviews of more recent books (e.g. Kidd). |
| Factiva | Also useful for finding reviews of more recent books. |
| Web
Sites |
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| There are also a number of citation style manuals available on reserve and at the Research Assistance desk. |
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