Pirate Source contains subject research guides for a wide variety of subject areas. Librarians choose databases, web pages, and reference materials to help you get started doing research in that subject.
Relevant subjects may include:
Women's Studies
Literature categories
History categories
Theatre
Selected Reference Books:
An Annotated Index of Medieval Women: Ref CT3220 .A56 1992
Biographies of British Women: An Annotated Bibliography: Ref CT3220 .S85 1993
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing: Ref PN682 .W6 C36 2003
Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Ref D114 .D5 1982
The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary: Ref CB353 .L38 2001
The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography: Ref CT3202 .P26 2005
Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia: Ref HQ1143 .W643 2004
Finding Criticism:
First-Stops:
Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB): http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/reference/erdbs_description.cfm?id=164 Online access covers 1963-current. For 1921-1962, use the print indexes in the Reference Department. Search as an independent database or integrated into LION.
Literature Online (LION): http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/reference/erdbs_description.cfm?id=66. LION brings together multiple components: indexing of critical articles based on MLAIB and ABELL (see above), 175 fulltext critical journals, the Bibliography of American Literature, fulltext reference resources, and 18 collections of fulltext fiction, drama, and poetry.
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Set of books which collect reprinted essays grouped by author or theme. The essay in CMLC is not always the complete essay; sometimes it is excerpted. Ref PN 610 C53x.
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Set of books which collect reprinted essays grouped by author or theme. The essay in LC is not always the complete essay; sometimes it is excerpted. Ref PN 86 L56.
Literature Online (LION):http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/reference/erdbs_description.cfm?id=66. LION brings together multiple components: indexing of critical articles based on MLAIB and ABELL (see above), 175 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 (http://collections.chadwyck.com/). Browsing the Complete Contents (http://lion.chadwyck.com/contents/contents.jsp ) allows navigation by time period and author.
Women Writers Online:http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/reference/erdbs_description.cfm?id=156. Full text of works by early modern women writers, including the subset Renaissance Women Online. Contains introductions written by scholars in the field and covers a number of various genres ranging from drama and poetry to cookbooks, translations and trial narratives.
If It's Not FullText:
Serial Solutions:
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 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.
Note! This Serials Solutions software doesn't work perfectly—so you may need to double-check whether we have access to a particular article. We know, for instance, that books of criticism reported in MLAIB results can cause problems for the software.
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: http://jw3mh2cm6n.search.serialssolutions.com/?SS_Page=refiner&SS_RefinerEditable=yes. When you click the Find IT! Button at the bottom of the page, you will generate a menu of options that works like the one described above.
