Searching Databases
You can use either Basic or Advanced Search on many databases; Basic is good for finding out the breadth of a topic, and Advanced helps to focus your search results.
Start your search with 1-3 keywords related to your topic. Not enough results? Try using synonyms for your keywords, or enter fewer keywords. Too many results? Often there is a "Narrow Results by" or "Modify Search" side bar that will help.
For literature based databases, typing in the author's name (usually last name, first name) is a good place to begin. You can change the search field with a drop down menu to "Author: Personal" in Humanities Full-text, or do a "Person-By or About " search in the Gale Literature Resource Center.
Explore the search fields in these databases - you can also limit by document type or subject.
Literature, Literary Criticism and Language Research
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Arts & Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new windowDatabase which features both criticism, literary reviews, and works by an author. Go to Advanced search, type in author, Click on Search Options at bottom, Select Document Type (pick Fiction or Review).
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Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowLiterary Databases combines 3 sources which feature author work, criticism on an author, and author biographies. Search in basic and select type of work. Search by Person-By or About, then select on options in grey bar. Includes multimedia.
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Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new windowAll fields (keyword) brings up articles/work both by and about your author.
For articles/work by an author, change keyword search to Author, Personal and search for:
last name, first name (Moore, Lorrie).
Use All Filters below the search box to break down author’s work into book reviews and work
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. Also see MLA Directory of Periodicals
Publishing Resources
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Ulrich's Periodicals Directory This link opens in a new window
Ulrich's™ is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information for 300,000+ periodicals (open access. peer reviewed, newsletters, etc). Includes active titles, suspended titles, ceased titles(from 1974), and forthcoming titles.