Find Books: Catalogs
Summit (Orbis Cascades) Catalog
Academic libraries in Oregon and Washington. Request books not at OSU (or checked out) and have them sent here in 3-4 working days
Suggest books you'd like the library to purchase.
Borrowing from other libraries
Books:
First see if a book is available through Summit. If it's not, request it through WorldCat.
Articles in journals:
Request through InterLibrary Loan. Articles are delivered electronically, so the turnaround time is often 24 hours or less but may take up to 5 working days.
Literary and Critical Sources
John Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Oxford Reference Online Encyclopedias, dictionaries and more.
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Encyclopedia of Irish Culture and History
Famous Quotes & Authors Nicely designed website. Browse by author or topic.
Managing Your Research
EndNote & other bibliographic managment software
Search Alerts Many databases let you save and return to searches and receive updates when new information is published on your topic(s)
Keeping Current with Research. Information about RSS feeds, social bookmarking, and more.
Research Databases
MLA International Bibliography
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Academic Search Premier Includes journals as well as magazines in all subject areas. A good starting point but not as comprehensive as the MLA and Linguistics databases.
and more
Citation Databases
In cited reference searching, you are searching works cited pages in scholarly articles. You can trace the influence of ideas and writers, find more recent articles on your topic.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index
Google Scholar cited by... Incomplete but you may find some useful leads.
Primary Sources
American Periodicals Series , 1740-1900
America's Historical Newspapers , 1690-1876)
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
Nineteenth Century Serials Edition 6 periodicals, with facsimiles and searchable transcipts
Women Writers Online 1400-1850
Dissertations and Theses - SA & DA
Scholar'sArchive : Electronic copies of OSU theses and dissertations. 2007 - present.
Dissertation Abstracts Dissertations and Masters Theses completed at US institutions. If you find a dissertation you're interested in, use Interlibrary Loan to request it. Be aware, though, that not all libraries will lend them. If you can't borrow a dissertation from another library, you can purchase a copy from Proquest/UMI.
Graduate Student Workshops
Keeping Up : a popular series of free workshops for graduate students and faculty.
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