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English Graduate Resources

English Graduate Resources. Mary Claire Vandenburg mcv@queensu.ca 2010. Points of Interest. Catalogue http://islander.library.queensu.ca/ e.g. tracking the new book shelf Summon Subject Guide http://library.queensu.ca/research/subjects MLA IB and use guide , best reference

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English Graduate Resources

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  1. English Graduate Resources Mary Claire Vandenburg mcv@queensu.ca 2010

  2. Points of Interest • Catalogue http://islander.library.queensu.ca/ e.g. tracking the new book shelf Summon • Subject Guide http://library.queensu.ca/research/subjects MLA IB and use guide, best reference • Database http://library.queensu.ca/research/databases • E-journals http://library.queensu.ca/research/ejournals/ • Theses http://library.queensu.ca/research/format/finding-theses • Other catalogues • Amicus http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus/index-e.html • Worldcathttp://www.worldcat.org/ • CRL http://www.crl.edu/

  3. New Book Searchhttp://islander.library.queensu.caSummonhttp://queensu.summon.serialssolutions.com/New Book Shelf Stauffer Library

  4. QCAT New Book Search

  5. Summon The advanced search button offers more refined searching After your initial search refine using the faceted browsing Relevance or chronological searching

  6. E-bookshttp://library.queensu.ca/research/ebooks/

  7. Cited Reference Searchinghttp://library.queensu.ca/inforef/citation.htm

  8. E-journal Websites Sign up for alerts a b

  9. Possible Course-Collection Mappings Topics in American Literature II: American Exceptionalism from the Puritans to Obama Political Studies @ Scholars Portal Search, America: History and Life, ENGL 883* Topics in American Literature III: Bob Dylan Smithsonian Global Sound, Summon (see next 2 slides) English Language and Literature Subject Guide Browse by Chronological Period Article Indexes

  10. Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries 388 tracks for Woody Guthrie Eg. http://external.queensu2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221288193/

  11. Empire Online

  12. One of many documents on the Great Exhibition

  13. North American Thought & Culture

  14. India, Raj & Empire

  15. OpinionArchives

  16. Primary Sources • Primary Sources in the Humanities and Social Sciences: • Full Subject Guide http://library.queensu.ca/research/guide/primary-sources/websites • British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries • Early English Books Online (EEBO) • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) • Journal / Newspaper Indexes • House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (U.K.) • Globe and Mail / Toronto Star • London Times New York Times

  17. basement of Stauffer Note: guide in Reference Collection (1st floor)

  18. Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts: Samuel Richardson & Jonathan Swift are included in Part Two. Correspondence of Defoe, Fielding, Inchbald, Burns, Burke, Cowper, Walpole and Hume. Some early letters of William Wordsworth date from 1797. Inquire at the Archives

  19. Multimedia Collections Streaming Video DVD Collection

  20. Subscribed Multimedia Collections Theatre in Video http://queensu1.ativ.alexanderstreet.com.proxy.queensu.ca/ ArtStor http://www.artstor.org.proxy.queensu.ca/index.shtml

  21. Free Multimedia Collections British Library Images Online http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/ Shakespeare in quarto http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html

  22. Variety of study spaces in Stauffer Library

  23. When you need material we don’t own Inter Library Loan: RACER Who has what: Worldcat, National Library & Archives Canada, Theses and Dissertations Request for Purchase: Mary Claire mcv@queensu.ca , 107b Stauffer Library

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