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.

Literature Criticism and Reviews

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 review 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 Knowledge, an online database indexing resources in all areas. It includes citations of critical articles on popular culture, film and television. 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.

Book Review Digest provides citations and excerpts from reviews in approximately 90 popular journals from 1983 to present in the electronic version. The paper version has excerpts from complete reviews for fiction and nonfiction in many disciplines starting from 1905. Z1219 .C95.

Book Review Index provides citations to book reviews published in English-language periodicals. Entries are arranged alphabetically by name of author of book reviewed with a separate Title Index at the end of each annual volume. It includes citations of book reviews in all subjects from scholarly and popular periodicals, back to 1965. It indexes more periodicals than Book Review Digest but does not include excerpts. Z1035 .A1 B59

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974 indexes reviews in all subjects in the humanities, by title and author, from 1802 to 1974. Cites 500,000+ book reviews gathered from more than 150 humanities journals. "Most of these reviews have never been included in any retrospective multi-title book review index." Includes book reviews, "book notes," and "book briefs." Excludes "review articles" in which a number of subject-related books are reviewed simultaneously (unless the book titles are listed in the article). Z6265 .C65 1982

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals lists reviews found in 459 scholarly journals in the fields of history, political science, and sociology, citing more than a million book reviews gathered from scholarly journals published between 1886 and 1974. "Most of these reviews have never been included in any retrospective multi-title book review index." Includes book reviews, "book notes," and "book briefs." Z1035.A1 C64

Gale Criticism Guides: Shakespeare, Twentieth Century, Nineteenth Century, Classic and Medieval, etc (also located in the Humanities and Social Sciences 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.

Author Bio-bibliographical Resources

Dictionary of Literary Biography is a valuable place to start when doing research on an author. It provides personal background, a bibliography, brief critique of the body of their work and contributions to the fields, as well as locations of major collections. PN 451 .D53.

Contemporary Authors also provides an overview of an author, as well as additional biographical and critical resources to consult. PN 451 .C6.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index is an index of indices, providing coverage of Biography Index, Who’s Who, Contemporary Authors and other biographical sources. CT120 .B56.

Selected Resources

Tracey, Karen. Plots and proposals : American women's fiction, 1850-90. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. PS374.F45 T73 2000

Salmon, Richard. Henry James and the culture of publicity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. PS2127.P6 S25 1997

Reising, Russell J. Loose Ends : closure and crisis in the American social text. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. PS169.S57 R45 1996

Mills, Bruce. Cultural reformations : Lydia Maria Child and the literature of reform. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. PS1293.Z5 M55 1994

Small, Ian. Conditions for criticism : authority, knowledge, and literature in the late nineteenth century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. PR75 .S53 1991

Showalter, Elaine. Sister's choice : tradition and change in American women's writing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. PS147 .S48 1991

Levine, Robert. Conspiracy and Romance: studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. PS374.C594 L4 1989.

Margolis, Anne Throne. Henry James and the problem of audience : an international act. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Press, 1985. PS2127.A9 M37 1985.

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 Libraries have 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.