Pew Learning Center & Ellison Library

• Use our catalog to find books, videos, CDs, etc.            
• Use WorldCat to find and request books from other libraries through Interlibrary Loan.  If you are overwhelmed by the amount of content in WorldCat, try looking up a book that has already been helpful to you. Then search by some of the same subject terms.  Or look for the section of the record that says 'More Like This' and click the 'Advanced Options' link.  What you see there should help you find similar materials.                                                              

Finding an article can involve three steps.

 1. Use Articles & Databases to find articles or citations. If the citation includes the full-text or image, you can get the article right away. If not, go to Step 2.

 2. Use Journal Finder to see if we have the journal you want. Note: this is the step to go to if you *already have a citation* in hand. If we do, get your article from the source. If not, go to Step 3.

 3. Use Interlibrary Loan to request the article from another library. Please allow time.

• JSTOR - consider limiting by Discipline to make results more focused
• MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography
• Humanities Full-text
• Academic Search Complete
• MasterFILE Premier
• OmniFile Full Text
• Proquest Research Library
• New York Times Historical 

Online Reference Sources:

•  Literature Resource Center - provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline and covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
•  Literary Reference Center - contains information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals. Includes detailed information on the most studied authors and their works. Note: not all of the sources include the full text.
•  Literature Online - includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. This source is not as good for criticism as some of the others.

Other Biographical Sources :

•  American National Biography
•  Biography Resource Center

Internet Sources:

• Our library's links to literature sites.

  Suggestions for Citation Management:

• Painless Library Research includes additional information on documentation and plagiarism.                                                  
• Personal assistance: send me email, call me at ext. 3062, or come see me.                                                                            
• Tour the library.