The resources listed herein are merely starting points. The library can provide many more resources specific to a particular topic. Many of the sources below are databases accessible via the Internet.

Catalogs and Union Catalogs

Online Catalog LibCat includes the materials (books, journals, videos, documents and other materials) that the Libraries hold. Be aware that there are groups of materials not included in the catalog: many government documents and microform sets that we own may not appear in LibCat.

WorldCat Catalog of books and journals, the contents of over 14,000 research libraries, mainly in North America. Anything found on WorldCat that is not available in Evans Library can be ordered through Interlibrary Services or Get it for me.

Databases and Electronic Indexes

MLA International Bibliography This database indexes sources on literature, linguistics, and drama from 1963 to present. Also available in print back to 1920. While it indexes secondary literature, it may lead to other pertinent information on the topic. PB1 .M46 from 1920 to 1962; from 1963 to present, on the web.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature An electronic index of critical articles and book reviews on language and literature in English back to 1892. The print index of article citations on English language and literature covers published articles from 1920 to present. PB1 .A55.

Wilson Indexes A collection of databases of article citations, on a variety of subjects from science to business to the social sciences. The web versions of Humanities Index, Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature and Essay and General Literature Index will provide citations to literary criticism articles and book chapters. Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, AI3 .R48, continues Poole’s Index, AI3 .P7, covering periodical literature from 1800 to present. Essay and General Literature Index includes citations to articles and book chapters from 1900 to present, AI 3 E752. Humanities Index will provide citations to criticism articles in literature, including poetry, short fiction, drama and novels. The print indexes back to 1972. AI3 H84

EBSCOHost (Academic Search Complete) is a collection of selected full-text periodicals and scholarly journals, U.S. and international newspapers, reference books and detailed pamphlets from a variety of disciplines.

PCI (Periodicals Contents Index) includes citations and selected full text from critical articles as well as book and performance reviews in humanities and social sciences journals from 1770 to 1993. This is the only electronic resource available that indexes back to the 1770s.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index are part of the Web of Science, an online database indexing resources in all areas. It includes citations of critical articles on literature, linguistics, popular culture, and many other subjects. The online versions go back to 1982 while the paper version of Arts and Humanities Citation Index , Z 5931.A78 goes back to 1975, and Social Sciences Citation Index, Z 7163.S6 extends back to 1956.

World Shakespeare Bibliography includes annotated entries to important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced from 1977 to 1998.

Arden Shakespeare offers full text of the works of Shakespeare with annotations. Includes "the entire corpus of plays, poems and sonnets, Arden introductions, commentary notes, variants and appendices, facsimile images of first folios and appropriate quarto texts, grammar and glossary, bibliography and Shakespeare sources.” This resource is available in the Evans Reference Area only.

Gale Criticism Guides: Shakespeare, Twentieth Century, Nineteenth Century, Classic and Medieval, etc (also located in the Evans Reference Section) are excerpts from literary criticism appearing in monographs and periodicals from a given era. Many instructors prefer that the students don't cite from these sources: if so, the student may take the citation in the reference work and look up the original article.

Electronic Journals and Full-Text Databases

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is a full-text resource including newspapers as well as popular, trade and scholarly publications in all areas from about 20 years to the present. It will have the full-text of critical articles and reviews from current sources.

Project Muse and JSTOR are packages of electronic journals in the Humanities. They are among the more than 20,000 online titles to which the Library has access. Project Muse is a full-text collection of humanities journals from 1995 to present; JSTOR is a full-text collection of history, philosophy, economics, and political science journals from their conception (at times, from the 1700s) to present. These are also accessible via the E-Resource Locator on the Libraries' web site at http://library.tamu.edu.

Library Assistance

If you need additional assistance, please don’t hesitate to go the Evans Reference Desk for help. They are located on the 1^st floor of Evans Library. You may also contact them via phone at 845-5741 or via email at lib-help@tamu.edu.

If you want specialized help, you may schedule an appointment with me, as liaison librarian to the Department of English, and I will be happy to help you with your research topic, recommend sources and introduce you to searching some of the electronic materials.