English 111.1
Building a Better Britain?: Literature from Australia and New Zealand
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/engl111mg.html
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Developing a Search Strategy
Search strategy is the process of finding information in a logical, step-by-step manner. Using a search strategy insures that you will find the information and materials you need as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Research Steps:
- Choose your topic
- Find background information
- Find books on your topic
- Find periodical articles
- Find networked resources or relevant Web sites
- Evaluate your sources
- Cite your sources
For more information about library research strategy and using library resources, consult:
The Seven Steps of the Research Process
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Finding Books
Click on the image to connect to the Cornell Library online catalog:
- About
the CU Library Catalog
The Cornell University Library Catalog includes the holdings of 19 Cornell University libraries. The catalog contains records for books, computer files, government documents, manuscripts and archives, maps, musical scores, periodicals, serials, sound recordings, and visual materials. CU Library Catalog Help Pages
- 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. - Interlibrary
Loan Services
If Cornell Library does not have an item you need, Use ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan Internet Accessible Database) to request that we borrow materials from other libraries.
Specialized Print Encyclopedias
Uris Ref PR l9 C17+; Olin Ref PR l9 C17+
Not to be confused with the Cambridge Guide to Literature in English [below]. A single volume guide to the literature of the English-speaking world. Covering more than a thousand years, it includes the literature of Great Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. It also includes the English writing from Ireland and South Africa and contributions from the West Indies and Nigeria since World War II. Entries are for authors, individual works of litera ture, main characters in novels and plays, relevant historical events and technical literary terms. Illustrated
Olin Ref PN86 C1
Contents: v. 1. Classical criticism / edited by George A. Kennedy -- v. 3. The Renaissance / edited by Glyn P. Norton -- v. 4. Eighteenth century / edited by H.B. Nisbet and Claude Rawson -- v. 5. Romanticism / edited by Marshall Brown -- v. 7. Modernism and the new criticism / edited by A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey -- v. 8. From formalism to poststructuralism / edited by Raman Selden -- v. 9. Twentieth-century historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives / edited by Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris.
Olin Ref PR9080.A52 E53x 1994 +
From the Introduction: "We use the term ‘post-colonial’...to cover all the culture affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day...The entries encompass genres, major subjects, and criticial biographies of writers.” National and regional literatures in English covered include those of Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, the Caribbean, East Africa, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Malta, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, St. Helena, South Africa, South Central Africa, the South Pacific, and West Africa. Indexed.
Olin Library Reference HM 101 D55 1996
A “reference guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory, which have developed from interactions among historical traditions of thought.” (Preface) Entries cover concepts, individuals, and movements that bridge the traditional boundaries between the humanities and social sciences (e.g., hermeneutics, structuralism, post-colonialism, multi-culturalism). Secondary references are provided for each. Indexed, with a general bibliography.
Olin Ref JV22 T45x 2003
Alphabetically arranged guide to terms (“counter discourse”), people (“Buchi Emecheta”), concepts (“nationalism”) and other topics found in postcolonial studies across the disciplines. Includes bibliography.
Finding Resources Online:
Two approaches to finding resources online:
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1. Search a Specific Database
Recommended Databases:
Literary
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Head, Dominic, ed. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006. [1993 edition online; 2006 ed. in print at Olin Ref PR 85 C29 2006+] [Online edition restricted to Cornell]
Not to be confused with the Cambridge Guide to English Literature, this alphabetically-arranged compendium covers some of the same material, but expands its coverage to Africa, India, and other areas, and aims to include more material on contemporary literary figures. Illustrated.
MLA International Bibliography [Restricted to Cornell]
An international database providing references to scholarly articles from over 4000 journals dealing with languages, literature, folklore and linguistics. It is useful for finding literary criticism of a particular author or work, as well as articles on literary theory, women’s studies, popular culture, and performing arts.
LION (Literature online) [Restricted to Cornell]
Articles, monographs and dissertations from the Annual bibliography of English language and literature (ABELL); full-text articles from literary journals; and biographical information on widely studied authors.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online. (ECCO) [Restricted to Cornell]
A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. When completed, the full collection will include nearly 150,000 titles and more than 33,000,000 pages of searchable material.
Literature Resource Center [Restricted to Cornell]
A complete literature reference database designed for the undergraduate student. LRC combines biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information to deliver a complete reference/resource package on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). Centering on respected Gale sources, including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism, this data set is augmented with full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material. LRC [also] offers the Encyclopedia of Literature, The Scribner Writer Series, and American National Biography.
Oxford Companion to English Literature. [Restricted to Cornell]
Also in print: Olin Ref PR l9 O94 2000
Available online and in print. Provides brief articles on authors and literary works from all periods of English literature are arranged alphabetically in this comprehensive single volume handbook.Contains extensive cross-references. Appendices include a chronology of English literature, and lists of poets laureate and major literary award winners.
- Oxford English Dictionary [Restricted to Cornell]
Second edition also available in print: Olin or Uris Reference PE1625 M98 1989
The OED presents in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology. It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectical usage and slang. This edition contains the complete A to Z sequence of the Second Edition, its three-volume Additions Series, and also draft material from the revision programme, which represents the latest progress towards the Third Edition.
Sociological
Sociological Abstracts [Restricted to Cornell]
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Subjects covered include community development, culture and social structure, demography and human biology, environmental interactions, family and social welfare, health and medicine and law, religion and science, social psychology and group interactions, welfare services, and women’s studies.
Historical
APS Online [Restricted to Cornell]
APS Online spans over 1,500 titles and 7 million pages of content, from the first American magazines, published in 1741, to the World War II period-200 years of American history as recorded in magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Paper of record. [Ottawa, Ont.] : Cold North Wind, [200u]- Paper of Record is an historical archive of full-page newspaper images dating from the 1700's. Based on a pre-existing microfilm collection, the online text preserves the original format of the paper, but can sometimes be of poor quality. (Better quality could be interlibrary loaned if necessary.) Included are newspapers from Australia, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and United States of America. Many of these titles date from the early 1800s to the mid 1900s.
General/Interdisciplinary
Academic Search Premier [Restricted to Cornell]
EBSCO Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 academic multi-disciplinary serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis.
ProQuest Research Library [Restricted to Cornell]
Includes an extensive number of periodicals, covering general interest magazines and
scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Also included
are citations and abstracts to selected television and radio programs. Full
text of many articles is provided.
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, ed. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005.
Available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library
[Restricted to Cornell]
or in print : Olin Library Reference CB9 .N49 2005+
This six volume set is “designed to introduce a general audience to the
main ideas and movements of global cultural history from antiquity to the
twenty-first century.” (Preface)
- The Find it! feature on the Library Gateway allows you to perform a simple search across multiple databases. For more precise searching, it is best to search the databases individually. See the Recommended Databases above.
2. Search a number of databases at the same time using Find it!
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.
Finding Images/Archival Resources
There are a number of databases available for finding images located in the Images category of Find it!.
Image Search Options:
Use the Quick search form to search for images by keyword or words. A Quick search retrieves images from the following databases: AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, American Memory (Library of Congress web site), Artstor, Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO), and NYPL digital (New York Public Library Digital Gallery).
Use the Images Subject Area list to identify and search additional image databases.
Look for the 
icon in other Subject areas for subject specific image resources.
Other Visual Resources: Wikipedia:Public domain image resources TASI: Finding Images Online |
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A portion of Panoramic View of King George’s Sound, Part of the Colony of Swan River, engraved by Robert Havell from sketches by Robert Dale, handcolored and published in 1834. Source: National Library of Australia. |
Recommended Image Sources:
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the AP’s current photos from their 50 million image print and negative library, as well as charts, graphs, tables, and maps from the AP’s graphics portfolio.
ARTstor [Restricted to Cornell]
Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data. Covers the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well asmany other forms of visual culture.
Selected Freely-available Online Resources
Aboriginal Studies Virtual Library AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature Australian Government Culture & Recreation
National Library of New Zealand New Zealand Electronic Text Centre New Zealand National Digital Library OzLit : Australian Literary Information Southern Cross Resource Finder State Library of New South Wales: Heritage Collection State Library of Tasmania : Tasmanian Resources & Information State Library of Western Australia : Showcase of Digital Image Collections |
A New Zealand road sign cautions drivers to be alert for kiwis, a flightless bird native bird, in this undated photo. |
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Evaluating Sources
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.
Citing Sources
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