Research Guides: ENGL 1301: Composition &amp; Rhetoric I (Harwell): Finding Literary Information

Recommended Sources

Literary Criticism

Bloom's Literature (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
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Essays and criticism examining the lives of great authors and their works throughout history.
Literary Reference Center (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Criticisms, synopses, and reviews of authors and their works, full-text poems, short stories, and classic novels, as well as full text from over 400 literary journals.
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Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields. (pronounced jay-store)
Literature Criticism Online (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Contains short story criticism selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers pamphlets, and scholary papers.
Includes Short Story Criticism: Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods.

Biographies

You will find biographies in all the recommended sources. The sources below are targeted to biographies within and beyond literature.

Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive biographical resource of over 350,000 people from throughout history and around the world.
Search all Gale databases at once with Gale PowerSearch.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Useful to find biographies and find topic introductions in a variety of subjects. The mind map tool will help you discover related ideas and terms.

Essay Collections

EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
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Search complete e-books. Read in browser, or create an account to download books to various devices.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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Over 100,000 e-book titles covering a full range of academic topics. General reference works are also included.

Open Source Essay Collections

Free access. Quality content.

Evergreen Review

Originally founded in 1957, and publishing for sixteen years, The Evergreen Review was dedicated to publishing controversial writing that challenged prevailing American literary, sexual and social mores. Re-launched as an online publication in 1998, it seeks to build on the magazine's founding legacy. Evergreen is a free publication. It is international in scope and that includes fiction, nonfiction and poetry,

Contemporary Information Sources

The New Yorker Magazine

Discusses current events and ideas, combining domestic and international news analysis with cartoons, sports, fashion & arts, profiles, short fiction and poetry. Searchable interface of The New Yorker from the Literary Reference Center.

The Atlantic

Features articles for the general reader, reports & comments on recent events in history, humor, fiction, poetry, arts & leisure, & book reviews.

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism

Winners and categories for this prestigious award provides the best of reporting on the world.

New York Times: Subscription Access This link opens in a new window
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Find both news and reviews as well as access to historical NY Times issues dating back to 1851.

First time user: To get access, you need to first register for an NYT account.
1. Click the link. You will have to enter your LSC library barcode.
2. Select Create Account and complete registration fields. Use your LSC email address!
3. Once you have an account, you may access NYTimes.com and NYT mobile apps like any subscriber, or go through this link but select "log in."

Note: Site passes will expire after 365 days. To renew, you will have to activate a new pass by repeating this process.

If Google Chrome shows a warning about this link, hit Ignore. You must use the proxy to get the special access.

Evaluating Information

The CRAAP Test

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Also, The Three Rs

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Searching Tips

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Tips to Find Reliable Sources
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Scholarly?
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How to know if an article is scholarly.