English 7005: Bibliography and Methods Reference Guides: - Harner, James L. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies. 4 th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
- Marcuse, Michael J. A Reference Guide for English Studies. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.
| | | - Folklore, Fairy Tales and Mythology
| - Literature—Novels (or Plays, Poetry, or Short Stories)
| | | | - History (American, Women, Civil War, etc.)
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Finding Older Articles: Bibliographic Databases: Primary Texts Online: - Early English Books Online (EEBO): Coverage based on Pollard and Redgrave, Wing, and their revised editions (see above), as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection.
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO): Tremendous digitization project spanning books, journals, ephemera, Bibles, lots of different types of sources.
- Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online is the subtitle; documents range from 1540's to 1940's.
- Literature Online (LION): LION brings together multiple components: indexing of critical articles based on ABELL (see above), 127 fulltext critical journals, the Bibliography of American Literature, fulltext reference resources, and 18 collections of fulltext fiction, drama, and poetry. To view the collections from the LION homepage, click the Individual Collections link. Browsing the Complete Contents allows navigation by time period and author.
- Making of America: Making of America ( MoA ) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Covers from 1675 to 1950. Includes biographies and other resources, as well.
- Wright American Fiction Collection
If It's Not FullText : This new software will help you find out whether the library has a print or electronic copy of an article from some databases. When you choose a citation from among your results, click on the Find IT button  to generate a menu of options. Listed at the top are any databases which will lead you to an electronic copy. Further down the list is a link leading to the Joyner catalog, for you to search for print copies. Citation Linker: If you already have a citation from someone else’s bibliography and want to find out if we have that article, key it into the Citation Linker. When you click the Find IT! Button at the bottom of the page, you will generate an menu of options that works like the one described above. Tools: To keep current in the field, consider Tables of Contents alerts (TOC's) from relevant journals. Most publishers host these now. Also subscribe to relevant email lists, including Jack Lynch's CFP list. RefWorks is an online citation management system that will help store, organize, and format your bibliographies. Many ECU databases support direct export of citations to RefWorks. To Get Help: - Come to the Reference Desk or call us at: (252) 328-6677
- Find chat or Instant Messaging options.
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