Introduction to Library Resources and Services for English Graduate Students

1. LIBRARY Introduction to Library Resources and Services for English Graduate Students Friday, August 31, 2018 Vince Graziano English Librarian vince.graziano@concordia.ca

2. Outline • Overview of Library Services • Electronic Journals • Electronic Books • Databases for Literary Criticism • RefWorks • Help is Available

3. Overview of Library Services • Interlibrary Loans – COLOMBO • Click on Create Request (if necessary) • Login with Concordia NetName • Article Delivery (2 working days) • Via an online form, articles from our printed/microform collection will be scanned into PDF and delivered via e-mail • Login with Concordia NetName • BCI card • Request at Loans & Returns Desk • Dissertation Writers Rooms • Graduate students only (ID card entry) • Webster 5th floor – LB-561, LB-562, LB-564 • Spain Graduate Student Reading Room – LB-545 • 5th floor plan

4. Overview of Library Services • Intercampus delivery • Request an intercampus delivery via the request feature in CLUES, the Library catalogue. • Rush catalogue • For books that have arrived but are not yet catalogued or processed, you can request a rush catalogue via the request feature in CLUES • Allow 2-3 working days for delivery • Books will be shelved in the back shelf of the Course Reserves Room.

5. Electronic Journals • Collections with substantial humanities content: • Project MUSE (Recent issues) • JSTOR (Older issues) • Oxford Journals (recent and archive) • Literature Online (LION) • Literature Resource Center • Taylor & Francis (Routledge) • Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) • ProQuest Central • British Periodicals I and II (1681-1920) • American Periodicals (1741-1940) • Periodicals Archive Online (1802-2000) • Many other electronic journal collections Literature Online

6. Electronic Books • Collections with substantial humanities content: • Literature Online (LION) • Early English Books Online (EEBO) – 1473-1700 • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) • Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) • Early Canadiana Online (until c. 1925) • Oxford Scholarship Online (recent and ongoing) • Cambridge University Press e-books (1995-2007) • Project MUSE Ebooks (university presses) • Cambridge Companions Complete Collection (ongoing) • Palgrave Macmillan (2010-) • ACLS Humanities E-books • Canadian Publishers Collection • EBSCO E-books • Many other electronic books Literature Online

7. Databases for Literary Criticism • MLA International Bibliography: • References to articles in 4,400 journals from 1926 onward • Moving from Literature Online platform to EBSCO in January 2019 • ABELL: • British equivalent to MLAIB • From 1920 onward • Literature Resource Center: • Contains 260 full text periodicals, both academic and non-academic • Literature Criticism Online: • Full text or selections of full text of essays and articles re-published in the following reference works: Shakespearean Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 • This database is NOT updated

8. RefWorks • RefWorks is a Web-based tool that: • Facilitates organization of references • Is accessible from any Internet connection • Simplifies the process of preparing bibliographies • Access RefWorks through the Quick Links menu on the Library website • Help • Tutorials on Library website

9. Workshop Workshop for English Graduate Students Friday, September 28, 2018 1:00 to 2:30 pm LB-322 (floor plan)

10. Help is Available • At the Reference Desk • Library website • Literatures in English Subject Guide • Ask a Librarian • E-mail form • Chat with a Librarian • Ask Vince: • 514-848-2424, ext. 7689 • vince.graziano@concordia.ca • Office hours: by appointment

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