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Library Research Guide for Writing 134:
Franz Kafka's The Trial
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Reference Books and Databases
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- Konzett, Matthias, ed. Encyclopedia of German Literature. 2 v. Chicago; London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
- Olin Library Reference PT41 .E53x 2000+
- Includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual works, and topics for English readers of German literature. See Volume 2 for an essay on Kafka.
- Stade, George, ed. European Writers. 14 vols. New York: Scribner, 1983-1991.
- Uris Library Reference PN 501.E89
- A collection of lengthy signed biographical and critical articles about major European writers. Each article includes a selected bibliography. Periods covered include the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (vol. 1-2), the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment (vol 3-4), the Romantic Century (vol. 5-7), and the Twentieth Century (vol. 8-11). See Volume 9, The Twentieth Century, for information on Kafka.
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- Literature Online (LION). Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., c1999-.
- A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary references sources. Primary texts include English poetry from 600 to the present; American and African-American poetry from 1603 to the present; English drama; English prose; articles, monographs and dissertations from the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature; full-text articles from literary journals; and biographical information on widely studied authors. Subsumed in the database are the contents of several Chadwyck-Healey CD-ROM products, including: The Bible in English; Database of African-American Poetry, 1760-1900; Database of Twentieth Century African American Poetry; Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare; and English Poetry.
- Literature Resource Center. [Farmington Hills, MI] : Gale Group, c1999-.
- "The Literature Resource Center (LRC) is 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). It includes full text online versions of Contemporary Authors, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Encyclopedia of Literature.
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All of the resources in Find Databases and Find e-Journals can also be found in and accessed through the CU Library Catalog.
Finding Periodicals and Periodical Articles in Olin and Uris Libraries.
- LexisNexis Academic. Dayton, Ohio: Lexis-Nexis, 1997-.
- LexisNexis Academic provides access to full text resources on topics including current and general news; business and financial information; newspapers; company directories; government and politics; medical and health topics; accounting, auditing, and tax; federal and state laws; legal cases; and regulations. Resources include TV and radio news transcripts.
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Periodical Abstracts (ProQuest). Ann Arbor: Bell & Howell, 1986- .
- 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 by date range, type of resource (newspaper or magazine and journal articles), and by retrieval format (citation, full text, or PDF file which includes graphics). The Database Selection menu allows you to search different sections of the database, including a limit for Peer reviewed articles (scholarly articles).
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- A multilingual, multidisciplinary database indexing books and journal articles in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%). It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Updated monthly, FRANCIS covers 1984 to the present, with more than <872,000> records.
- Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ). Osnabruck : Zeller Verlag, [199u]- .
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- MLA International Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association, 1963- .
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- Periodicals Contents Index (PCI). Alexandria, VA:Chadwyck-Healey, 1770 - .
- Electronic index to thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, covering each periodical from its first issue. Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages.
- 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. It includes the following collections: Arts & sciences I, II and III, General science, Ecology and botany, Business, Language and literature.
- 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.
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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.
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites offers a table of suggestions.
For additional suggestions specific to Web sites, see Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools.
How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity
APA citation style
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.)
CU Library Reference locations include Africana, Hotel, Management, Olin, and Uris Libraries at call number:
BF 76.7 .P83x 2001x. Also in ILR and Mann Reference at BF 76.7 .A51 2001.- APA citation style (Gateway Help)
- APA Reference Examples for Electronic Source Materials Excerpted from the new 5th edition of the Publication Manual.
- APAStyle.org
MLA citation style
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.)
CU Library Reference locations include Olin and Uris Libraries at call number: Z253 .M68 2003 .
- MLA citation style (Gateway Help)
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Research and Reference Help
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July 9, 2004
Lance Heidig, ljh5@cornell.edu
URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/writing134k.html
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