LibGuides: ENGL 425 : Literature, Archives, and Original Research: Books and Articles

Finding Books

Start with a keyword search in the catalog. Once you have located a relevant item, you can look at the Subjects in the record and follow those links to find related books.

You can also refine your results by using the facets on the left side of the screen

Child authors

Children's writings

English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation

Children -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century

Children -- United States -- History -- 18th century

Search for books BY a literary author as an Author search; search for books ABOUT a literary author as a Subject search.

Author: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Subject: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

Use the facets on the left side of the catalog to expand your search to Duke, NC State, and NCCU Libraries. To expand your search even further, try searching WorldCat.

WorldCat
OCLC's WorldCat is the world's largest union catalog containing of millions bibliographic records for items in the collections of thousands of libraries from many countries. This database includes all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries in several hundred languages.
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Coverage: Before 1000 B.C. - present

Bibliographic Databases

The two most prominent bibliographic databases for research in literature, literary theory, and criticism, are MLA International Bibliography and ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, which is searchable through ProQuest One Literature). These databases index journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews to an almost exhaustive degree, as it covers both current and historical scholarship. While these databases are focused on indexing relevant material (using keywords and subject headings), accessing these databases through the library's website will provide links to full text when available through UNC Libraries subscriptions. For items where full text is not available online, ILL can provide a scan of our print copy or obtain a scan from another library.

MLA International Bibliography
A major index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies. Includes articles from several thousand journals and series published worldwide. Also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Also searchable under "Criticism" within Literature Online.
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Coverage: 1884-present
Language: Various
ProQuest One Literature
Includes and expands upon resources from ProQuest Literature Online (LION). Includes literary criticism as well as primary texts and reference works. Contains 3 million literature citations from a wide range of sources such as scholarly journals, monographs, and dissertations, along with more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. Features notable collections from Chadwyck-Healey, such as African American Poetry, American Drama, and English Poetry. Provides access to the ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) index of bibliographic citations for literary criticism.
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Other Resources for Secondary Scholarship

JSTOR and Project Muse are widely used, full-text databases of scholarly literature.

JSTOR includes full-text articles covering humanities, arts, sciences, and business. It archives articles from the first volume of a journal up to the past three to five years. While we may have access to more recent articles through another database, it's important to be aware of this limitation in JSTOR. Additionally, while you can search across disciplines, the selection of journals is limited, so it's recommended to use subject-specific databases for better coverage and indexing. Searching in JSTOR is done through keyword search only (there are not subject headings or controlled vocabulary to use for your search). This may result in irrelevant hits (the term you search may appear in an article even if it's not the main topic of discussion), so precision searching and using advanced search tools will yield better results.

Project MUSE includes full-text content covering humanities and social sciences. It features full-text access to current and archival journals and ebooks from university presses and scholarly publishers. Like JSTOR, while it covers various disciplines, it's not exhaustive or specialized like discipline-specific databases, so it's advisable to use subject-specific databases if you need better coverage or indexing. Project MUSE allows faceted browsing for refining search results.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global can provide useful bibliographies and models for structuring your own work. Google Scholar provides the "cited by" feature which traces an article's topic from the time of publication forward. When combined with an article's bibliography, you are then able to locate a project within a scholarly conversation. Be sure to configure your Google Scholar account so that you gain full access to articles provided by the University Libraries.

We have additional ECL databases, as well as hundreds covering other fields, on our E-Research by Discipline pages.

JSTOR
Provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. UNC patrons have access to extensive retrospective holdings of hundreds of journals, starting with the first issues. Excludes the most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.
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Coverage: Varies. Excludes most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.
Project Muse
Provides access to important university press and other scholarly publisher e-journals mainly in the humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Indexes US dissertations from 1861 with full text available from 1997; masters theses covered selectively including some full text. Citations for dissertations from 1980 include 350-word abstracts, while masters' theses from 1988 have 150-word abstracts. Selectively covers dissertations from Great Britain and other European universities for recent years.

In addition to this database, the full text of the majority of UNC theses and dissertations from 2006, and all beginning in 2008, are freely available electronically from the UNC Library: Dissertations | Theses
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Coverage: 1861 to present
Google Scholar
Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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Art and Architecture Complete
Art & Architecture Complete provides full-text coverage of over 370 periodicals and more than 220 books in the literature of art and art history, interior and landscape design, antiques, and more. In addition, it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, over 220 books, and features an Image Collection of over 63,000 images. (This database is included in Art Source.)
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1937-present
Language: Various

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Finding Secondary Research for History

History Search: America, History & Life/Historical Abstracts
Allows you to search America History & Life and Historical Abstracts either together or separately. America History and Life, is an index for North American history consisting of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations & book reviews. Historical Abstracts, covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
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Searching Within a Journal

If you find a specific journal title that is relevant to your topic, you can search for the title in our catalog. After clicking on the button for "Full text available via the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries" button, it will take you to a screen similar to the one above where you can search inside the journal. More search functionality will be found within the database, but this search strategy is especially useful if years of coverage are across multiple databases.

Journal of Juvenilia Studies : JJS