Research Tips & Tools

Course Guide:

English 210: Myth, Fantasy, and Imagination

Professor Deborah Robinson

Finding Books
Reference Materials
Finding Articles Using Online Databases
Finding Information on the Web

Finding Books

Use the HELIN Library Catalog to locate books in Roger Williams University Libraries and other HELIN libraries. To find books located in other libraries you may also wish to search InRhode or WorldCat

Subject Searching

Use this type of search when you know the name of an author, a correct title, or a Library of Congress Subject Heading.

Sample subject headings for this class:

Costume Costume - Greece Costume - History Costume - Dictionaries	Ancient Greek Concept of War Hunting - Greece - History Military history, Ancient
Ancient Greek Arts Art and Literature - Greece - History Art, Ancient - Greece Greece - Antiquities Art, Greek	Ancient Greek Law/Legal System Law, Greek Greece - Civilization Greece - Civilization - To 146 BC
Female Role/Standing in Ancient Greek Society Greece - Civilization Women - Greece - Economic conditions Women - Greece - Social conditions Sex - Greece - History	Male Role/Standing in Ancient Greek Society Greece - Civilization Sex - Greece - History Civilization Aegean
Ancient Greek Economic System Economics - Greece - History Greece - Economic Conditions	Ancient Greek Political System Greece - Politics and Government - to 146 BC City States - Greece - History Political science - Greece - History
Ancient Greek Society Greece Intellectual Life to 146 B C Greece - Civilization	Ancient Greek Athletics Games - Greece Sports - Greece Athletics - History Olympic Games Ancient
Ancient Greek Religion Greece - Religion	Ancient Greek Geography/Topography Geography, Ancient

Additional Subject Headings:

Minoans
Civilization, Mycenaean
Minoans -- Social life and customs
Crete (Greece) -- Social life and customs

Civilization, Aegean
Bronze age -- Aegean Sea Region
Aegean Sea Region -- Antiquities
Art, Mycenaean
Art, Cretan
Art, Minoan

Keyword Searching:

Use this type of search when you do not know the proper LC Subject heading for your topic, or when you know some of the words but not all the words in a title. Or to expand or narrow your search.

Allows you to use Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT) to broaden , narrow, or define your search.
Allows for truncation of search terms.

Sample Keyword searches for this class:

Ancient Greece and politics
Ancient Greece and women

Reference Materials

Common knowledge : a reader's guide to literary allusions: REF PN43 .G68 198
The Facts on File dictionary of classical, biblical, and literary allusions: REF PN43 L37 1987
Merriam-Webster's dictionary of allusions: REF PN43 .W384 1999

The Oxford dictionary of allusions: REF PE1580 .D45 2001

Finding Articles using Online Databases

Academic Search Premier - Ebsco Some Full Text	General periodical index providing full text for nearly 3,460 scholarly publications.
ARTStor	"ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use."
Art Abstracts	Index and abstracts to art publications. 1984-present.
Art Index Retrospective	Index to the art literature from 1929-1984.
Britannica Online Full Text	Encyclopedia articles with links to Internet resources.
Gale's Literature Resource Center Full Text	Full-text online access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography and other Gale Literary Criticisms.
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia	A searchable version of Grizmek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. This encyclopedia includes recent changes in the lives of animals.
Grove's Dictionary of Art Full Text	Online full-text of the original 34 volume Dictionary of Art. Revised and updated. Includes images.
JSTOR Full Text	Browse or search the full text back files of publications in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
MLA Bibliography Links to Some Full Text	An index to literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.
Oxford Reference Shelf	A regularly updated collection of over 100 dictionaries, encyclopedias quotation books and subject companions. Searches multiple books simultaneously, as well as searching by individual title or chosen subject. Includes citation instructions.
Oxford English Dictionary Full Text
Project Muse	A collection of 300 high quality journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Finding Information and Images on the Web


Art History Resources on the Web: by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College

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