ENC 1102 - Ms. Erin Burns-Davies
LIBRARY RESOURCE PAGE
INSTRUCTOR : LYN LAVIGNE
mlavigne@fau.edu
297-4318

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The selected sources listed below are useful for finding books, articles, and primary sources.

HOW TO FIND LIBRARY RESOURCES AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG
 

 BOOKS  

For example: Literary Criticism--Falkner

Click on the "Catalog". This source lists the books, government documents, videos, and other materials owned by the FAU libraries. It will tell you what books and journals, etc. the library owns. To find the actual journal articles you may choose to search by subject or keyword in the databases listed below.

A. Keywords: May search for two keywords using the terms and/or/not to limit search.

B. Author's Name: Use last name first with no commas.

C. Title: If the title begins with A, An or The, skip the first word and begin  searching with the next word.

D. Subject: Must be specific to Library of Congress search terms. Use dashes in narrowing your search.

WAYS TO FIND ARTICLES

A. Use EZ Proxy link for off-campus access. The link is on the Libraries' Home Page under Connect from Off Campus

B. Interlibrary Loan a service through which one library lends an item from its collection, or provides a photocopy of an item, to another library.

C. SFX is extremely helpful in searching for articles that cross databases.

OTHER HELP

D. Research Help

E. What's Your Major
 

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Electronic Databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page at http://www.fau.edu/library by selecting "Indexes/Databases" under the heading "Quick Links." When accessing the databases remotely, be sure to select the "Off Campus Connect" link for the "EZproxy" server.

Databases help you locate journal and magazine articles that are relevant to your specific research topic. You may search the databases by title or subject.

For Literary Criticism:


• Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors  
  
  Contents/Info: Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
  
• Literature Online (LION)
  
  Contents/Info: Provides access to more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 180 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
  
• MLA International Bibliography
  
  Contents/Info: Provides a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The indexed materials coverage is international. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
  
  
For General Research:


• OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
  
  Contents/Info: Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
  
  
• JSTOR
  
  Contents/Info: Journal Storage (More than 500 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science [including the General Science Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social science disciplines)
  
• InfoTrac OneFile
  
  Contents/Info: A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
  
  
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
  
  Contents/Info: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

 

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