GERMAN R5B: Epic Theater

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The library website is your gateway to research at UC Berkeley. 

• Library hours and maps
• Types of resources
• Over ten million volumes
• Several dozen libraries

Use OskiCat to locate materials on the shelves of the UC Berkeley libraries and also to:

• renew books online
• find course reserves and to
• place holds on items that are checked out.

Use Melvyl to locate materials at other campuses in the UC system, or worldwide, and also to

• request materials from another library if we don't own it
• find articles from some article databases
• easily format a citation for copying into a bibliography
Melvyl will also show you the location and availablity of items that we own.

The following Library of Congress Subject Heading links provide good lists to browse primary and secondary sources in the library stacks:

• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation.
  • Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Aesthetics
• Dürrenmatt, Friedrich -- Criticism and interpretation
• Frisch, Max

Select the Sort/Limit results button to hone in on more specific titles.

The databases below are my recommendations for beginning your research, but if you aren't finding enough on your topic there, see also the complete article database listings in the following fields:

• Literature
• Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies
• German Studies (primarily in German)

• MLA International Bibliography
  Indexes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials supporting critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Sponsored by the Modern Language Association.
  
• International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
  Online bibliography of materials indexed by the Theatre Research Data Center. Contains the full text of more than 170 journals and over 350 monographs and reference books, and indexing of academic journals, magazines, newspapers, dissertations, and monographs from over 125 countries.
  
• International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA)
  Indexes and abstracts over 250 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, documents, biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, and reviews. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more.
  
• Academic Search Complete
  A multidisciplinary index to articles in more than 10,900 journals and other publications in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese; full-text is available for over 5300 journals.
  
• JSTOR
  Includes over 1000 scholarly journals with access to more than 2 million articles. JSTOR is an archive which means that current issues (generally the most recent 3-5 years) of the journals are not yet available.
  

Have a citation? Use Citation Linker to go directly to the article.

Need to find a specific journal? Use E-Journal Titles A-Z to find it online or on the shelves at UC Berkeley.

Once you've used an article database to find articles on your topic, you may need to use this button: in order to locate and read the full text of the article. 

UC-eLinks will link you to the online full text of an article if UCB has paid for online access; otherwise, UC-eLinks will help you locate a print copy on the shelf in the library. If UCB doesn't own the article in print or online format, UC-eLinks can also help you order a copy from another library.

For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 4 min.)

You can also set up UC-eLinks to work with Google Scholar.  For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 2 min.)

To use library databases from off campus you have to set up the proxy server: this changes your browser settings.

• Different browsers [Firefox, Chrome, Safari...] have different instructions- they are all here.
• You can set it up on multiple devices
• You log in with your CalNet ID
• There's an alternative: the VPN

Critically Analyzing Information Sources (Cornell)

Doing good research requires different skills than searching. Searching online encourages ways of thinking that can create false expectations and poor research results. Here are a few tips:

• Slow down.
• Look at the advanced search page
• Iterative searching
  • Learn from the search results
  • Too many results? Too few?
  • Look at citations from good sources
• Try
  • Various keywords
  • Various subjects
  • Multiple databases (information silos!)

Searching for scholarly sources

• choose the right database
• limit results to "peer-reviewed" sources

• Citing Your Sources - a brief online guide to the main citation styles and a brief discussion on what constitutes plagiarism. 
• Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More (UCB-only access) Charles Lipson. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006. 
  Many print editions throughout the libraries.
• MLA handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th edition. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
  Doe Reference Reference Hall LB2369 .G53 2009
  Main Gardner Stacks LB2369 .G53 2009
  Many older editions available throughout the UCB libraries.
  

Go to the research help page to have librarians answer your questions online:

• 24/7 Chat Reference
• Email Reference
• Phone Reference
• Library Liaisons (for in-depth, upper-level research)

Research Advisory Service for Cal Undergraduates

Book a 30-minute appointment with a librarian who will help refine and focus research inquiries, identify useful online and print sources, and develop search strategies for humanities and social sciences topics.

• German
• Library Subject Guides
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