Links for Search Exercise
Directions: Choose one of the authors or books we've been discussing, and see what you can find in each of these. As you find resources, make notes about the following:
1. How many resources were found?
2. How many relevant or useful resources did you find?
3. Were they scholarly and trustworthy resources? How could you tell?
I. Specialized Databases for Literary Criticism
1. WSU Databases for Literature http://libguides.wsulibs.wsu.edu/englishandamericanlit (or use this general link: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Griffin/indexes.htm)
5. In Project Muse, go to American Literary Scholarship and look up your author in one of those volumes. What's the state of criticism for the author in that year?
Library Resources
6. Griffin Catalogue (http://griffin.wsu.edu/)
7. Summit Catalogue (http://summit.worldcat.org)
8. The Library of Congress (http://loc.gov)
Other Sites for 19th-century research
10. Cornell and Michigan Making of America Sites: Go to this page and scroll down: http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/sites.htm
11. Now try one of the other links on that page. What did you find?
12. Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
13. Google Books. How can you find a free version of some of our texts?