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 or Get it for me.

RLIN Catalog of materials from Research Libraries Group, it includes archival materials and rare editions. It provides access to the RLIN Bibliographic File which reflects the collections of major research, academic, and national libraries; archives and museums; law, medical, and theological libraries; art and music libraries; area studies collections; public and corporate libraries; historical societies and book clubs. It also provides access to the English Short Title Catalogue, containing records from 1473 to 1800, for items of all types published in Great Britain and its dependencies or in English anywhere in the world from the beginnings of print through the 18th century. This system is mediated, so an appointment will need to be made with a librarian. http://endeavor.rlg.org.

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, AI3 .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, Z5931 .A78 goes back to 1975, and Social Sciences Citation Index, Z7163 .S6 extends back to 1956.

Selected Web Sites

The Complete Corpus of Old English from the Dictionary of Old English Project, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, edited by Antonette di Paolo Healey. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/oec.html

Old English Pages, a web page of resources and links on Old English and Medieval Studies compiled by Catherine Ball at Georgetown University. http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/old_english.html

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. PN451 .D53

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 Old English Texts

Bede, the Venerable, Saint. The Tanner Bede: the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, Oxford Bodleian library Tanner 10, together with the mediaeval binding leaves, Oxford Bodleian library Tanner 10* and the Domitian extracts, London British Library Cotton Domitian A IX Fol. 11 . Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1992. BR746 .B5 1992 (Cushing Lib./Rare Books)

The Vercelli Book: a late tenth-century manuscript containing prose and verse, Vercelli Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1976. PR1495 .A1 1976 (Cushing Lib./Rare Books)

The Old English illustrated Hexateuch: British Museum Cotton Claudius B. IV. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde og Bagger, 1974. BS1214 .A53 C67 1974 (Cushing Lib./Rare Books)

Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. The Salisbury psalter. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1959. PR1119 .A2 no. 242

Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham. Aelfric's De temporibus anni. London: Published for the Early English text society by H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1942. PR1119 .A2 no. 213

Judith. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997. PR1730 .G75 1997

The Old English Finding of the True Cross. Dover, NH: D.S. Brewer, 1987. PR1709 .F56 F5 1987

Two literary riddles in the Exeter book: Riddle 1 and The Easter riddle: a critical edition with full translations. 1st ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. PR1762 .A53 1986

The battle of Maldon. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1981. PR1594 .A13 1981

Beowulf : an edition with manuscript spacing notation and graphotactic analyses. New York: Garland Pub., 1975. PR1580 .S8 1975

Andreas. The fates of the apostles; two Anglo-Saxon narrative poems. New York: Ginn & company, 1906. PR1644 .A3 K7 1906a

Wulfstan, Archbishop of York. Canons of Edgar. London, New York, Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1972. PR1119 .A2 no. 266

Euangelium secundum Iohannem. The Gospel of Saint John in West-Saxon. New York: AMS Press, 1972. BS2613 1904a

Evans, Stephen S. The heroic poetry of Dark-Age Britain: an introduction to its dating, composition, and use as a historical source. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997. PR205 .E93 1997

Head, Pauline E. Representation and design: tracing a hermeneutics of Old English poetry. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. PR201 .H43 1997

Wehlau, Ruth. The riddle of creation: metaphor structures in Old English poetry. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. PR203 .W44 1997

Milfull, Inge B. The hymns of the Anglo-Saxon church: a study and edition of the 'Durham Hymnal'. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. BX1999.85 .A3 D876 1996

Clemoes, Peter. Interactions of thought and language in Old English poetry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. PR201 .C57 1995

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 1500 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.

Library Assistance

Don’t forget, Harner’s Literary Research Guide is a monumental help in finding resources. Also, Bracken’s Reference Works in British and American Literature is available electronically in full-text via the Library Catalog.

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 the Main Library building. 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.

Candace R. Benefiel
Associate Professor
979-862-1044
cbenefie@lib-gw.tamu.edu