Literature Guide

 
 

Subscription Databases

Full-text Databases:

African-American Poetry 1760-1900 - (full-text) You can Browse the collection or Search by subject, keyword, first line, gender of the author, city of publication and many more. Do not use quotation marks around phrase searches. The database will find your exact phrase without quotes.

American Civil War Letters and Diaries (ASP) (full-text) The Advanced Search allows searching by race, military rank, battle name, religion, occupation and many other options. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

American Film Scripts (ASP) (full-text) Allows searches limited by Age When Writing, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Production Company, Theater Name and many others. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

American Poetry (Electronic Text Center) (full-text) Allows searching within works according to the style of writing and the gender of the poet.

Asian American Drama (ASP) (full-text) Allows searches limited by Age When Writing, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Production Company, Theater Name and many others. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Black Drama (ASP) (full-text) The multi-search field allows searches by gender, age when writing, nationality, race, genre, settings, performers, composers and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora (ASP) (full-text) The multi-search field allows searches by gender, age when writing, nationality, race, genre, settings, performers, composers and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Black Women Writers (ASP) (full-text) The Advanced Search field allows searches by gender, age when writing, nationality, race, religion, historical events and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches under the heading Search Texts. These will allow you to search letters, or diaries only and it will allow you to limit you searches to material written by women according to age and maternal status. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Cambridge Companions (full-text) The advanced search allows Boolean searches in the "Full text" field. If you do not know how to do a Boolean search, see Search Techniques. Be careful - the "Start Advanced Search" button is below the fold. You will have to scroll down to see it!

Cambridge University Press Journals (mostly full-text) - The link at left will take you to the "Advanced Search" screen. If you do not want to do an Advanced Search you can use the simple search box in the upper right corner of the screen. If you want to use the Advanced Search, you probably want to set Journals to "All Journals" and Subjects to "All Catagories." Restrict search to specific article type is probably the best part of the Advanced Search. If you do not want book reviews, you can limit your search to articles only by holding down the control key and clicking to highlight only the article types you want.

Credo Reference - (full-text) Tremendous number of full-text reference volumes with many unique search options. Browse by topic, use a concept map, or an advanced search. You can also rank search results by relevancy, by results with still and moving images, and by those with sound files.

Early English Books Online - (full-text) The basic search allows you to search only the texts with images, if you like. Advanced search lets you search by languages and type of images, such as map, chart, plan or table, to name a few.

ebrary - (full-text) A large colleciton of full-text books.

EBSCOhost Databases - (mostly full-text) On the follwing screen place check marks beside all the databases you wish to search. Click "Continue" at the bottom of the screen. On the left menu bar next to your search results you will see many options for narrowing your search.

English Poetry 600-1900 (Electronic Text Center) (full-text) includes the works of 1,257 named poets and many items by different anonymous hands. Overall the database contains over 165,000 poems which have been drawn from about 4,500 separate printed sources.

English Verse Drama contains more than 2,200 works by around 500 named and over 300 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century through the unparalleled output of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the nineteenth century.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (full-text) On the next screen, click on the blue Johns Hopkins logo. A list of contents will appear. The option to search is located just below the black bar on the right.

JSTOR (full-text) - The Advanced Search page is the default. If you do not want to search all of the collections at JSTOR, scroll down and list one or more titles to search or check mark specific resources. Place as many checks as you like in the section marked These Discipline(s) and/or Journal(s):. If you leave them all unmarked the system will search all of them.

On the search results screen, there is no longer any way to move batches of citations to RefWorks unless you Register for MyJSTOR and log in to that service. You can move citation one at a time into RefWorks, however.

Click on the title of the article to view the first page. To Print, click on the PDF button. It will be the bottom button under three others labeled "Save citation," "Export this citation," and "Article Information." All four are located below the grey bar grey, on the center right of the screen. A pop-up window will load your PDF. Click the printer icon closest to the document - located to the right of the floppy disc icon.

Latin American Women Writers (ASP) (full-text) The Advanced Search field allows searches by gender, age when writing, nationality, race, religion, historical events and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Latino Literature (ASP) (full-text) The Advanced Search field allows searches by gender, age when writing, nationality, race, religion, historical events and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Lexis-Nexis (full-text) - Search using natural language, entering the title of your book and the words "book reviews," in quotes. Notice that you can Select Source on the pull down menu below the search box. There you can search transcripts, law reviews and medical journals, to name but a few catagories of publications. If the book for which you would like to find a review was published before 1994, you will want to use Reader's Guide on Wilson Web.

LRC: Literature Resource Center (full-text) After you click on the link at left, you will go to a list of databases at Gale. Scroll down and click on Literature Resource Center. Enter an author's name in the search box and click, Search. Writers who have been published for the first time in the past three years may not be in this database. Authors By Type allows you to select an author according to Ethnicity, Genre, Literary Movement, Nationality or Theme.

MLA Bibliography (some full-text) - If you want to search for full-text articles only, be sure to look below the yellow box and find the words Limit the current search (optional). Here you will find a small square next to the words, "to articles with text." Place a check in that square and the system will find only full-text articles for you.

NetLibrary (full-text) - is a collection of over 43,000 online books in all subjects. Search by author, title, or keyword. You may also search the full-text for specific words or phrases. The most important thing to remember about NetLibrary is that if you click on "View this eBook" that title will be locked up for 15 minutes UNLESS you "close" the eBook. Directly below the NetLibrary logo in the upper left of the browser screen you will see the words Open Items. Beneath Open Items you will see the word Current followed by the title you are viewing. To the right of the title, you will see the words, Close Item. You should always close the item when you are finished viewing it! Sweet Briar College Library shares all of our NetLibrary e-books with all of the colleges in the state. If NetLibrary tells you that an e-book is already in use, it is probably being used at another Virginia school. Wait and try that book again later.

In order to prevent problems in getting back into an eBook you are using, you should also always leave your eBook open in a separate browser window. If you need to go to other web pages while you are using an eBook, open a new browser window and do your web browsing there. Leave your eBook open in it's original window! If you need to leave the computer you are working on, it would be best for you to either "close" the eBook (if it is not checked out) OR (if the item is checked out) check the item back in before you close the browser window.

To move through sections of books in NetLibrary, click the words "Next" or "Previous" in the top right of the page. DO NOT use the greyed out arrows on the bottom of the screen. They don't work. No, we don't know why they are there. Please note that NetLibrary books cannot be downloaded due to copyright law, but individual pages can be printed. The advanced search on Net Library accepts Boolean operators. If you do not know how to do a Boolean search, see Search Techniques.

North American Indian Drama (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches under the heading Search Texts. These will allow you to limit you searches to material written by age when writing, tribe, gender, genre, settings and more. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

North American Theatre Online (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches under the heading Search Texts. These will allow you to limit you searches to material written by age when writing, tribe, gender, genre, settings and more. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

North American Women's Drama (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches under the heading Search Texts. These will allow you to limit you searches to material written by straight or lesbian women. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches under the heading Search Texts. These will allow you to limit you searches to material written by women according to marital and maternal status. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Oral History Online (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches under the heading Search Texts. These will allow you to limit you searches to material written by straight or lesbian women. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf - This link takes you to a title list.

Oxford English Dictionary (full-text) Search results list similar dictionary words in the left column. Also offers pronunciations, spellings, etymologies and date charts indicating the earliest use of the word in print.

Oxford Language Dictionaries (full-text) Automatic translations, useful phrases, from countries around the world.

Oxford Reference Online Premium (full-text) Great quick reference for defining concepts, word translations, country flags and timelines in a wide variety of studies. Just plug your search term into the Quick Search. An Advanced Search is also available.

Oxford University Press (full-text from 1996) - OUP Makes you work before you can search! On the first screen of OUP, scroll to the bottom and see where it says Sort By on the lower right side. Set the radio button to Newest First. Notice also that you can limit your search to just one journal or to one subject area in the middle of the search screen. After you do a search, and select an article from your search results screen, in most cases a PDF will open in a window on the left side of the screen. You can return to your search results by clicking the back button or by clicking the blue button labeled Search Result on the right side of the frame.

Project Muse (full-text) Click on Search. Use the Advanced Search to limit to specific journals and to use Boolean Operators. When your search results screen appears, you click on the title of the article to see it in HTML. If you prefer a PDF version, click on the small words, "View in PDF" which appear to the right of the title of the article.

Reader's Guide Full-Text (WilsonWeb) (full-text) On your list of search results, the Wilson Link button allows you to export citation to RefWorks.

Scottish Women Poets of the Romatic Period (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches under the heading Search Texts. These will allow you to limit you searches to material written by women according to ethnicity or occupation. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Theatre In Video (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches under the heading Search Texts. These will allow you to limit you searches to material written by straight or lesbian women. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Times Digital Archives 1785-1985 (full-text) - Allows you to limit your search by advertising, business, editorial, commentary, featuers, news, people, picture gallery and articles with illustration. Displays PDF images with a scroll box at the top that allows you to make the image larger or smaller. Search terms are highlighted in the text of the article.

Twentieth Century North American Drama (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches under the heading Search Texts. These will allow you to limit you searches to material written by straight or lesbian women. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.

Virginia Woolf Reading Notes for the Three Guineas The core of this archival project resides in the three volumes of news clipping scrapbooks, located in the manuscript collection at the University of Sussex, with entries dating from as early as 1927 to December, 1937. Specifically, the entries consist of several hundred items indexed by Woolf separately in each of the three scrapbooks.

Wilson Web (some full-text) - The Advanced Search screen automatically loads. If you do no know how to do a Boolean search, see Search Techniques. The blue Start button is on the right. Below the Start button, notice the option to Limit to Full Text. You may also use Subject Area, to limit your search to a particular area if you get too many results by searching ALL. This is a good place to find book reviews.

Women Writers Online (some full-text) - The Advanced Search screen automatically loads. If you do no know how to do a Boolean search, see Search Techniques. The blue Start button is on the right. Below the Start button, notice the option to Limit to Full Text. You may also use Subject Area, to limit your search to a particular area if you get too many results by searching ALL.

Indexes:

America: History and Life (citation only) The Advanced Search screen automatically loads.If you do no know how to do a Boolean search, see Search Techniques. You can refine your search and get fewer results by using the tools in the left and right menu bars.

FirstSearch (citation only) - Enter your search terms in the "Search For" field. Then select a database to search. You can only search one database at a time. For that reason, it is better to use the scroll box to select a Database rather than a Topic. Use Jump to Advanced Search if you need to search on more than one keyword at once. To order an Interlibrary Loan from any of the FirstSearch databases, scroll down to the middle of the record for the item you wish to order and click the link next to this image: ILL.

Historical Abstracts (citation only) The Advanced Search screen automatically loads.If you do no know how to do a Boolean search, see Search Techniques. You can refine your search and get fewer results by using the tools in the left and right menu bars.

John Milton Bibliography (citation only) Browse by subject or search by time period, primary or secondary entries, and key words.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (CSA) (citation only) - Use Boolean operators to compose your search. If you do not know how to do a Boolean search, see Search Techniques. When your search results are displayed, click on the title of the article to see the abstract. Remember to return to your results by clicking the link in the top center of the page that says "Return to Results," instead of using the back button. Click the words "Check Your Library," located beneath each item on your search results list, to see if that article is available on campus or electronically. "Send Request to Illiad" will link you to your Illiad Interlibrary Loan account.

Literary Index from Gale (citation only) Online Index to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and other paper publications, some of which Cochran Library owns. To use this resource it is best to open two browser windows. In one browser window open Literary Index. In the other window, open LION. This way you may easily click back and forth between the two to find the titles that are in Cochran and their call numbers.

Reader's Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 (WilsonWeb) - (citation only) On your list of search results, the Wilson Link button allows you to export citation to RefWorks. After you collect your citations from Reader's Guide Retrospective, you will have to go to Journal Finder to locate the articles either online or in Sweet Briar College Libary's Wick Storage facility. If you do not know how to do this, please contact Liz Kent (x6315), Joe Malloy (x6307) or Lisa Johnston (x6306).

WorldCat (OCLC) (citation only) - If you opt to use the Advanced search screen you can limit your search by format (i.e. book, map, sound recording, etc.). You can also limit your search to the Sweet Briar College collection by placing a check mark next to "Limit Availability to:" and then typing the letters VSB in the Library Code box.

WorldCat is very easy to use with the Illiad Interlibrary Loan system. Simply log into Illiad in a separate tab. In a WorldCat record click on the words "Send Request to Iliad" which you will find next to the pink "ILL" graphic. This will send your request directly and automatically to Illiad.

Online Journals

Journal Finder is a list of all of the journals SBC has in full text through database subscriptions. Type in your journal title and the finder will locate the journal you need. For more journal subscriptions that are in print or on microform, connect to LION to check the SBC Library catalog for holdings information on the journals you need. If the journal is NOT held by the SBC Library, request the articles you need on Interlibrary Loan. The form is here.

Books in the Sweet Briar College Library

For Reference books, look in section PN 41 to PT of the Reference Room. To find books on your topic, connect to LION and use the Subject Keyword search field. We can order books on Interlibrary Loan (ILL) from all area libraries. Please check LION before requesting an ILL book. If we have the book on campus your ILL request will not be filled. Check both LION and Journal Finder before requesting an ILL journal article. If the article is on campus or is available to you electronically through Journal Finder your ILL request will not be filled.

RefWorks

RefWorks is a database that organizes your "works cited" to create quick bibliographies for your papers. It allows you to change your entire bibliography from APA to MLA style (or many other styles) in a snap, without fussing with formats or punctuation.

Just go to RefWorks. The first time you go there you will have to "Sign up for an individual account." Once you sign up and login, click on the References tab in the upper left corner of the screen.

On the drop-down menu tool bar choose "Add New Reference." On the following screen, start by selecting your prefered bibliographic style (e.g. APA, Chicago, MLA, etc.) Then designate the type of reference you are entering (e.g. journal, book or dissertation, etc.) under Ref Type. Field names marked with a red asterisk indicate required information needed to produce an accurate bibliography for the selected output style and reference type. Click "Save" when finished.

You can Import references from selected databases. Importing allows you to bring in multiple references at one time. Check the RefWorks list of Supported Databases to see which products will allow you to export multiple references to RefWorks.

If you have any problems using RefWorks you can check out their helpful online tutorials or download the SBC Library RefWorks Handout. Please call a librarian at x6307, x6306 or x6315 for a one-on-one training session.

Literature Resources On the Web

If you have comments, questions, or would like to add a site, write to me.
Lisa N. Johnston (email: lnjohnston at sbc dot edu), Associate Director/ Head of Public Services, Sweet Briar College LibraryRevised 3/10

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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