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Research Strategy and Process
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Library Catalog is used to identify and locate almost everything the CU Library owns in print, electronic, and other formats. This catalog reflects the majority of our collections, representing the holdings of 18 Cornell libraries plus the CISER Data Archive.
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Find Articles allows you to search for journal article citations in more than one database simultaneously. In some cases, these citations will provide links to the full-text of the articles online.
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Find Databases provides access to over 1000 online indexes and abstracts, almanacs, catalogs, dictionaries, directories, and encyclopedias.
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Find e-Journals links to over 20,000 electronic journals licensed by Cornell University Library.
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My Library is a collection of personal electronic services, developed by the Cornell University Library, that can be customized to reflect your own personal interests and research needs.
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Ask a Librarian lists numerous ways you can ask us your questions.
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Individual Libraries connects to all of the CU Library's various libraries, divisions, collections, and programs.
New Immigrant
Literatures in the United States
A.S. Knippling, ed.
Olin Reference: PS153 .M56 N53 1996
A comprehensive introduction to the contributions of immigrants to the post-World War II literature of the United States. The book is organized into sections devoted to Asian American, Caribbean American, European American, and Latin American literatures, with individual chapters treating such previously neglected groups as Pakistani Americans, Korean Americans, and Finnish Americans. Each of the 22 chapters on individual immigrant literatures gives basic information about the ethnic group, its culture, and its immigrant history in the United States, which with the notes and a comprehensive bibliography results in a concise reference chapter on that particular group's contribution to U.S. literature. Second, each chapter contains expert critical and interpretive essays on the dominant concerns, major authors, early and recent works, and prevailing genres of each group, satisfying the scholar's need for critical and contextual perspective.
Reading
the Literatures of Asian America
S. Geok-Lim & A. Ling, eds.
Olin & Uris Libraries: PS153 .A84 R43x 1992
Although these essays explore the literary themes found in specific Asian American literary works, when read and digested in their totality they reveal themselves to be a well-organized anthology displaying the richness and diversity of Asian American culture and history, thoughts and beliefs. The book is separated into four interrelated sections covering Asian American identity, questions of gender and race, issues of ethnic boundaries and borders, and various interpretations of texts, and each section fully discusses these themes through an investigation of literary forms.
U.S. Latino
Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers
H. Augenbraum & M.F. Olmos, eds. for the Mercantile Library of New York
Olin Library PS153 .H56 U7 2000
This book contains full chapters by various critics on each of the leading Latino authors and their best-known works, including Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street.
Hispanic
Literature Criticism Supplement
Susan Salas, editor
Detroit: Gale Group, 1999
Uris Library Stacks PQ7081.A1 H5732x 1999
The Oxford Companion
to African-American Literature
W.L. Andrews, F.S. Foster, & T. Harris, eds.
Olin Reference: PS153 .N5 O98 1997
Uris Reference: PS153. N5 O96x 1997
An important sourcebook for information about black writers and their craft and a welcome companion to the recently issued Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Includes brief biographies of more than 400 black writers, entries on some 150 works, and a host of entries on characters from novels, stories, and plays. In addition, there are entries on topics such as Afrocentricity (as well as on topics of more general interest).
Encyclopedia
of Contemporary American Culture
G.W. McDonogh, R. Gregg, & C.H. Wong, eds.
Olin Reference E169.12 .E49x 2001+
This encyclopedia seeks to answer the need for an accesible insight and introduction to contemporary American culture, offering a comparative and interdisciplinary approach. It provides a starting point for interested browsers and serious scholars, pointing the way to more specialized sources and in-depth study. Sample entries: "Literature, race and ethnicity," "Latino/as," "Asian Americans," and "assimiliation."
Gale
Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
R. von Dassanowsky, contributing ed. & J. Lehman, ed.
Uris Reference: E184 .A1 G14x 1999
This two-volume reference work examines 101 different ethnic groups in the United States. Generally ten to 20 pages long, the signed original articles by recognized scholars contain a general history of the group, a description of the area or country of origin, and an examination of a variety of different aspects of the group's experience in the United States. The entries are excellent summary articles that also include handbook-type information such as additional sources for consultation.
Why Orwell Matters
Christopher Hitchens
Olin & Uris Libraries: PR6029.R8 Z664 2002
Far from being an ordinary biography, this small volume is an in-depth investigation of the essential George Orwell. Hitchens devotes some of his best writing to describing Orwell's first-hand experiences with empire in Burma. It was there that he learned to hate racism, bullying and exploitation of the lower classes.
Video
T`ai-pei shih: Spring International, c1998.
Olin Library Media Center: Asia Videos #2673 - 2685
Presents twelve famous Chinese writers from the thirties who have had a great impact on the emergence of modern China. 13 Videocassettes. Video #2674: A Shout From Outside the Iron House : Lu Xun. 50 min.
Networked
Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group.
A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). Draws from Gale Group's core literary databases, including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Provides additional search capability for Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature and Gale Literary Index.
General Interest and Reference
Finding Books
- About
the CU Library Catalog
The Cornell University Library Catalog includes the holdings of 19 Cornell University libraries. (The Weill Cornell Medical Library, located in New York City, has a separate catalog.) The catalog contains records for books, computer files, government documents, manuscripts and archives, maps, musical scores, periodicals, serials, sound recordings, and visual materials received and cataloged since 1973. There are also records for most pre-1973 items, and for items that are on order or in process. - CU
Library Catalog Help Pages
- When to
Check the Card Catalog
Some materials in the humanities and social sciences acquired prior to 1973 have records that have not yet been converted to digital form. Access to these records is through the card catalog located in the Lower Level of Olin Library. The card catalog contains cards for authors, titles, and subjects that are interfiled alphabetically. - Understanding
Library of Congress Call Numbers
- Library
of Congress Classification
The Cornell University Library uses Library of Congress subject headings as the standard for subject searching. Unlike searching by keyword, where any term or wording of a topic can be entered into the computer, subject searching requires you to use the exact wording of an official Library of Congress subject heading in order to retrieve search results. - Library
Catalogs Worldwide
Use other online catalogs to find materials not in the CU Library Catalog. - Interlibrary
Loan Services
Use ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan Internet Accessible Database) to borrow materials from other libraries. - Borrow
Direct
A new rapid book request and delivery system that enables Cornell faculty, staff, and students to search the combined library catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale, and directly request expedited delivery of circulating items.
Finding Articles
Indexes, Abstracts, and E-Journals
Periodical indexes and abstracts are resources that identify and locate articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Increasingly, indexes are available as online databases that will often provide access to the full text of the articles.
Find Databases provides access to over 1000 online indexes and abstracts, almanacs, catalogs, dictionaries, directories, and encyclopedias. Entries for these resources provide descriptive information, dates of coverage, and links to the databases. You can find databases in your areas of interest by either searching by title or keyword or browsing through the subject menus.
All of the resources in Find Databases can also be found in and accessed through the CU Library Catalog.
Find Articles allows you to search for journal article citations in more than one database simultaneously. In many cases, these citations will provide links directly to online full text of the articles themselves.
Note: The number of databases available for simultaneous searching is a selective subset of the number of resources available in Find Databases.
Multidisciplinary Indexes
Periodical
Abstracts
(ProQuest). Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International.
Indexes and abstracts approximately 2000 general interest magazines and scholarly journals. It also includes citations and abstracts to selected television and radio programs. Many of the articles found by searching in this database are available in full text electronic formats. Pull down menus allow you to customize your searches. Also included is a limit for peer-reviewed articles (scholarly articles).
JSTOR
New York, NY: JSTOR, c1996.
JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, business and other fields.
Project
MUSE
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1995.
Searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.
Specialized Subject Indexes
- MLA.
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1963 to date.
MLA bibliography is the largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama, including film, opera, radio, television and theater. Literary criticism and literary theory are covered extensively. Approximately 4,000 journals and series are indexed.
- Literature
Online (LION). Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey
- Ethnic NewsWatch. Stamford, CT : Softline Information, Inc, 1960 to date.
A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary references sources. Full-text articles from literary journals and biographical information on widely studied authors.
- Sociological Abstracts. San Diego: Sociological Abstracts, 1972 to date.
A full-text
collection of 240+ newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority
and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story,"
Ethnic NewsWatch offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the
mainstream press.
- Hispanic
American Periodicals Index (HAPI). Los Angeles, UCLA Latin American
Center Publications, University of California.
HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Contains authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters.
Indexes and abstracts over 1,600 journals in sociology and related disciplines of anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, demography, political science and social psychology. It includes conference papers, dissertations, book reviews, and abstracts of books.
Internet Resources
Use web portals, search engines, or Internet subject guides to find resources or sites on the World Wide Web on your topic. Search Engines are software programs that allow you to search the contents of web pages and Subject Guides are web pages that use menus and lists to sort and classify web sites.
Question and evaluate the information that you find on web pages. As you would do with books and journal articles, look to see who is responsible for producing the web page or site that you are accessing. How objective is the information? How accurate or truthful? How authoritative? Go to the Evaluating Sources section of this page for more information on how to assess the web sites you have accessed.
Selected Web Sites
Smithsonian: Cultural Identity and Interaction
Culture & UNESCO(United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization)
Evaluating Sources
Evaluating the sources you find is a crucial step in the process of library research. The questions you ask about books, periodical articles, or multimedia sources are similar whether you're looking at a citation to the item or have the item in hand.
How
to Critically Analyze Information Sources
Lists some of the critical questions you should ask when you consider the
appropriateness of a particular book, article, media resource, or Web site
for your research.
Distinguishing
Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals: A Checklist of Criteria
Shows how to evaluate periodicals by looking at their format, intended audience,
and appearance.
Evaluating
Web Resources
Lists ways to analyze the Web sites you find.
Evaluating
Web Sites: Criteria and Tools
See this page for additional suggestions specific to Web sites.
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
Offers a table of suggestions.
Citing Sources
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APA
citation style Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.) Africana,
Hotel, Management, Olin, and Uris Libraries APA citation style (CUL Gateway Help pages) APA Reference Examples for Electronic Source Materials (Excerpted from the 5th edition of the Publication Manual) APAStyle.org (APA's web site) |
MLA
citation style Olin and
Uris Libraries Z253 .M68 2003 MLA citation style (CUL Gateway Help pages) MLA Style (MLA's web site)
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