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The Cornell University Library Gateway is the Library's homepage on the World Wide Web. The Gateway lists information about the CU Library and provides access to library resources and services.
Reference Resources
For
background information
Literature
Resource Center (LRC). Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, c1999-
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A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism).
Lion
Literature Online. Alexandria, Va. : Chadwyck-Healey, 1996- .
Includes critical and biographical references on English and American authors. Search tip: To find biographical entries as well as critical analysis, choose author from the left-hand tool bar. Enter the author's last name, first name, e.g.Kincaid, Jamaica.
Encyclopedia
of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Ed.
Margaretta Jolly. 2 vols. London : Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
[Olin Reference CT 21.E53 2001]
Includes an entry on Jamaica Kincaid (pre-dates publication of My Brother), and an entry on the Holocaust that discusses Art Spiegelman's Maus.
Encyclopedia
of Women's Autobiography. 2
vols. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
Holocaust
Literature : An Encyclopedia of Writers and their Work. Ed. S. Lillian
Kremer 1939-. New York : Routledge, 2003.
[Olin Reference PN56.H55 H66x 2003 +]
Includes an entry on Art Spiegelman.
Holocaust
Novelists. Ed. Efraim Sicher. Dictionary of Literary Biography ; v.
299. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
[Uris Library Reference
Index Table, PS129 .D55 v.299 +]
Each article includes a biographical profile, followed by critical analysis of the author's work. Articles also include black-and-white illustrations and bibliographies of primary and secondary sources, including the sources of published interviews. The appendix includes three valuable essays on Holocaust fiction.
Searching the Library Catalog
To locate items held at Cornell (books, journals,
etc.)
- Search by keyword
- Search by Library of Congress Subject Heading
- BorrowDirect
and Interlibrary Loan
(To request items not available at Cornell)
Search by title in the Library Catalog:
If you have already identified a title you would like to find, search by title in the Library Catalog. To find related titles, open the Long View of the record for the item and click on the Subject Heading links .
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From the Library Gateway, choose the Library Catalog:
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Enter the title of the book. Leave off leading articles such as "a" or "the".
Example: To find, The limits of autobiography: trauma and testimony , enter:
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Leave off leading articles such as a and the.
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Note the library location and call number. Check the Olin Floor Directory or the Uris Library Stack Guide to locate the item in the stacks.
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Click on Long View to view Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Return to Searching the Library Catalog
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The Guided Keyword search is another approach to finding materials on a topic.
- Use a ? to pick up variant endings -- i.e., author or authors, literature or literary
- In the example below, note the pull-down menu [any of these] to search for the term author or litera? or writer?
Return to Searching the Library Catalog
Searching by LC Subject Headings in the Library Catalog:
A Subject Heading search relies on a controlled vocabulary -- the Library of Congress Subject Headings. To find relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings, begin by using a Relevance Keyword or a Guided Keyword Search.
From the list of results, click on the links to open individual catalog records. From the catalog record, click on the Long View to find the Subject Heading links.
To find books about an author, enter the author's name -- last name, first name. Under Search by:, highlight Subject Heading. Scroll down the list of headings and subheadings.
Return to Searching the Library Catalog
Databases
To find
citations to articles, essays, book chapters and monographs
Periodical indexes (now available as online databases) identify and locate articles in magazines, journals and newspapers. Many databases also index essays, book chapters and monographs.
Some databases provide the complete article online (the full-text). When full-text articles are not provided, click on the Get it! Cornell link to determine if the library owns the periodical you need, or search the Library Catalog directly for the book or journal title.
Sample record from the MLA Bibliography:
Search the Library Catalog by the source noted in the entry. In the example above, the source of the article Testimony and the Subjects of AIDS Memoirs is A/B Autobiography Studies. The article appears in volume 13, number 2 (Fall 1998) on pages 235-56 .
Record for A/B Auto/biography studies. Examine the "Volumes" information to verify that the library owns the cited volume. Note the library location and call number.
Recommended Databases
Note: The Find it! feature on the Library Gateway allows you to perform a very simple search across multiple databases. For more precise searching, it's best to search the databases individually. See the recommended databases below.
Literature
Resource Center (LRC). Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, c1999-
.
A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism).
Lion
Literature Online. Alexandria, Va. : Chadwyck-Healey, 1996- .
Includes critical and biographical references on English and American authors. Search tip: Choose author from the left-hand tool bar. Enter the author's last name, first name, e.g. Kincaid, Jamaica.
MLA
International Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association
of America, 1963 - .
An index to scholarly articles from over 4000 journals dealing with languages, literature, folklore and linguistics. Search tip: Enter the author's name on one line and a word from the title on the next line. Set language or document-type limits, if desired.
Academic Search Premier. Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Publishing, 1984 - .
Provides indexing, abstracts (summaries) and some full-text. Includes over 200 linguistics journals.
Proquest Research Library. Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest Information and Learning Co, 1986 - .
Indexes and abstracts general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Many articles are available full-text.
Full Text Collections -- JSTOR and Project Muse
JSTOR:
the scholarly journal archive. New York, N.Y. : JSTOR, c1996- .
A full-text collection containing the back issues of hundreds of scholarly journals.
Project
MUSE: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1995- .
A full-text collection of recently published articles in the social sciences and humanities.
The Find it! feature on the Library Gateway
The Find it! feature on the Library Gateway allows you to perform a simple search across multiple databases. For more precise searching, it's best to search the databases individually. See the Recommended Databases above.
Using Find it!, you can do a simple search in 4 general resources or you can select a list of subject-specific databases to search.
Please note: If your search in Find it! pulls up too many results, or if the results do not seem relevant, try searching one of the recommended databases above.
BorrowDirect & Interlibrary Loan
Requesting items not available at Cornell
Borrow Direct
If Cornell does not have the book you
need, or if the book is currently charged out to another user, search the
BorrowDirect system to locate a copy. See Interlibrary Loan, below, for
article delivery.
BorrowDirect is a book request and delivery system that enables Cornell faculty, staff, and students to request items from the combined collections of Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale.
If an item is available through BorrowDirect, delivery can be expected in approximately 4 days. Please note: BorrowDirect can only be used for books and printed music. For journal articles, see Interlibrary Loan, below.
Interlibrary Loan Services
To request electronic
delivery of articles from journals not held at Cornell, or to
request books and other items that are not held at Cornell and are not available
through BorrowDirect, use Interlibrary Loan.
Please note: Unlike BorrowDirect, Interlibrary Loan cannot be used for a book the library owns, even if the book is currently checked out to another user.
If a title you need is currently charged to another user, try BorrowDirect or place a recall on the item.
Evaluating the sources you find is a crucial step in the process of scholarly 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.
MLA
citation style
(Modern Language
Association)
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.)
Olin and Uris
Libraries Z253 .M68 2003
(located at the Reference
Desks)
MLA citation style (CUL Gateway Help pages)
MLA Style (MLA's web site)
Cornell
University Code of Academic Integrity
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10/14/2007
Lynn Thitchener
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