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Literary Resources Guide for Effective Research

This guide provides background resources, print materials, and literary databases for comprehensive literature research exploration. Find useful information on various genres, authors, books, and critical analysis to enhance your understanding and academic success.

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Literary Resources Guide for Effective Research

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  1. Introduction to Literature: Library Resources Frederic Murray M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian frederic.murray@swosu.edu

  2. Wikipedia Wiki: A Web application that allows users to add content to a collaborative hypertext Web resource (coauthoring), as in an Internet forum, and permits others to edit that content (open editing).

  3. Wikipedia • Jimmy Wales January 15, 2001 • No Original Research • NPOV (Neutral point of view) • No owners, multiple anonymous authors • Anyone with Internet access can create or edit an entry…Anyone

  4. Wikipedia • Contributors: male, English speaking, denizens of the Internet. • Problem is not that it disregards the facts, but that it elevates them above all else. • Most of the content is discussion/history of edits & not the entries themselves. Rosenzweig, Roy. “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past.” The Journal of American History 93.1 (2006): 117-146.

  5. Wikipedia • Participation maps popular, not academic concerns • It is a working community…but is it a good historical resource? • Lack of Critical Analysis • Problematic as a sole source of information • Like all encyclopedias…ok to start, terrible place to stop. • Benefits are to its active participants, not its readers.

  6. Goals • Highlight Background Resources • Explore Three Literary Research Databases

  7. Background Resources • One volume literary encyclopedia. • Brief entries describing authors, books, characters, genres. • R 803 B435 1996

  8. Background Resources • Discusses and defines various literary terms. • Provides a solid foundation for understanding terms common in the discussion of literature. • R 803 H731h6

  9. Background Resources • Bibliography of Literary Criticism 1st Floor Reference R 016.8 M272m • Reference Guide to World Literature 1st Floor Reference R 809 R259 • Dictionary of World Literature: Criticisms, Forms, and Technique 1st Floor Reference R 803 Sh6da

  10. Goals • Look at Useful Print Resources • Explore Three Literary Research Databases

  11. Literary Databases • Lion: Literature Online Complete • Literary Resource Center • JSTOR

  12. LION: Literature Online Complete • This database contains a full library of up-to-date, fully searchable criticism and reference resources.

  13. Literary Reference Center • LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books, major literary encyclopedias, reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.

  14. JSTOR • JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive. Searching is possible within each title and across the whole database.

  15. Goals • Look at Useful Print Resources • Explore Three Literary Research Databases

  16. Thank You ! Frederic Murray M.L.I.S. frederic.murray@swosu.edu 580 774 7113

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