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COML 1123.102: Going Back and Beyond (Spring 2009)  Tags: literature first_year_writing_seminars travel time linguistics_language_literature  

A guide to research strategies and the resources and services provided by the Cornell University Library.
Last update: Apr 06th, 2009 URL: http://guides.library.cornell.edu/coml1123  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Useful Tips

Databases identify and locate articles published in magazines, journals and newspapers. Many databases also index essays, book chapters and monographs.

Tip 1: Some of the databases provide full-text coverage of journals.

Tip 2: If the database does not provide full-text, use Get it! Cornell or search the library catalog for the journal title (or book title). This will provide you with Cornell's holdings of the journal (in both print and electronic form).

Tip 3: For more precise searching, it is best to search the databases individually (rather than using Find It!).

 
 

Top Databases

  • MLA Bibliography  
      
    Covers 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.
  • Literature Online (LION)  
      
    A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary references sources.
  • Literature Resource Center  
      
    A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism).
  • ProQuest Research Library  
      
    Multidisciplinary database -great starting point for research on all topics.
  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  
      
    Multidisciplinary database -great starting point for research on all topics.
  • JSTOR  
      
    Full-text of scholarly journals, excluding those from the last 2-5 years.
  • Project Muse  
      
    Full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, and others.
  • International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)  
      
    Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry--including film, television, drama, and more.
  • International Film Archive Database  
      
    Includes International index to film periodicals and International index to television periodicals, 1972- present.
 

How to Identify Scholarly Journal Articles

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.

Watch this video to learn how to identify scholarly journal articles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDGJ2CYfY9A


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Reading Citations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1yNDvmjqaE

This segment covers how to read citations of books, book articles, and journal articles.

 


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