ENGLISH N1B: Victorian Sensation

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• 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.

 

There are thousands of books focused on Victorian literature and George Eliot in the libraries. The following Library of Congress Subject Headings should point you to some good lists for browsing broad topics related to this course: 

• Adam Bede Eliot George 1819 1880
  
• Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Biography.
  
• Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815

 

• MLA International Bibliography
  Scholarly articles on literary topics. Use UC-eLinks button to get to the articles themselves.
  
• Literature Resource Center (LRC)
  Includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Scope is international. Full text.
  
• JSTOR
  Easy to use, full text, multi-disciplinary scholarly article database. Note: the most recent 3-5 years of the journals are usually not available through JSTOR.
  
• Academic Search Complete
  A multi-disciplinary database that includes both scholarly and popular articles. Most articles have pdfs.
  
• Literature Online
  Includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 131 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. Includes reference works on literary criticism and biographical information.
  

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.

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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 search Oskicat by the journal title (e.g., Journal of Roman Archaeology) to see if it's on the library shelves.

What's it look like?

• 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.

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

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