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SESSION 1:
CLIO, Columbia
Libraries Information Online
CLIO
(Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for the Barnard &
Columbia Libraries. CLIO can be searched by author, title, subject and keyword.
Help for searching CLIO is available on the Web CLIO opening screen. CLIO
contains listings of books, journal titles and other non-print materials.
Sample Searches:
Title search: leave off the initial
article (the, an, la, etc.)
oxford companion to shakespeare
Journal title search: shakespeare quarterly
Author search: put last name, then
first name
shakespeare william
Finding a book about a person
or a subject: start with a Keyword
search using the most distinctive words associated with the topic. Then look for
useful subject headings and do a Subject search.
Keyword search: use: (" ") for a phrase, and use ? for
truncation (to find variant endings of a word)
shakespeare "richard iii"
women shakespeare
"richard iii" and (women or feminis?)
Subject search: use Library of Congress (LC) subject headings
shakespeare
women great britain history
great britain history
Limiting to books in Barnard
Library: use the Pre-Select Limits or
Post Limit option; can use with keyword and title searches only
Call numbers:
Overview of the
Library of Congress Classification Outline
Note that although the Barnard Library is in Lehman Hall, CLIO location
Lehman means the Social Sciences library at Columbia; Barnard books have the
location
SESSION 2: FINDING
PERIODICAL ARTICLES &JOURNALS USING DATABASES
In the list of
Databases, which you can access from the
Barnard Library home page as well
as the
Columbia University Libraries home
page, there
are links to many databases and indexes which can be searched for citations, abstracts as
well as full-text
articles in various disciplines. Many databases have e-Links which will
search to see if the full-text of a particular item is available online through
CU Libraries. If you are unable to locate an item, search CLIO
directly for the journal title.
The following databases
probably be the most relevant to your research:
Gender Studies Database
Multidisciplinary, women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory from 1972 to
present. Includes citations and links to full-text.
Humanities Full Text
Citations and abstracts for
articles in the humanities, including history, literature and more,
1984-present.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
A full text database of articles from a large number of scholarly journals, from the beginning of the journal but excluding
the most recent 3-5 years; includes: history, language and literature,
philosophy, classical studies and more.
Includes Speculum and Renaissance Quarterly.
LION: Literature Online
Literature, English and American poetry, drama, prose, biographies, and secondary
sources, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 20th century.
MLA
Bibliography
Major database for literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Citations
for articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, etc. from 1963 to the
present.
LION: Literature Online
Literature, English and American poetry, drama, prose, biographies, and secondary
sources, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 20th century.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
A full text database of articles from a large number of scholarly journals, from the beginning of the journal but excluding
the most recent 3-5 years; includes: history, language and literature,
philosophy, classical studies and more.
Includes Speculum and Renaissance Quarterly.
Project Muse
Full-text articles from more than
200 scholarly journals published by university presses in the arts, humanities,
sciences, and social sciences. Includes: Essays in Medieval Studies, Journal of
Medieval and Early Modern Studies and more.
ProQuest Direct
Multidisciplinary contains many full text articles, from 1971 and usually
1988 for full-text.
REFERENCE & RESEARCH
Blackwell Reference Online: Click on literature and look for Shakespeare
companions
Cambridge Collections Online: Search for titles relevant to Shakespeare
Folger Shakespeare Library
Literature Criticism Online: Includes Shakespearean Criticism
Shakespeare Collection: Featuring the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
Voice of
the Shuttle: Shakespeare
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
REFERENCE BOOKS
Located in the Barnard Reference Department,
2nd Floor of Barnard Library
| Title |
Call Number |
| Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World |
DA357 .W34 1999 |
| Encyclopedia of European Social History |
HN373 .E63 2001 |
| Women of England: From Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present |
HQ1599 .E5 W65 |
| British Writers (Shakespeare vol. 1) |
PR85 .B688 |
| All Things Shakespeare |
PR2892 .056 2002 |
| Oxford Companion to Shakespeare |
PR2892 .094 2001 |
| Shakespearean Criticism (Twelfth Night vols. 1, 26, 34, 46, 62, 74, 85, 95,
105)
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PR2965 .S43
and
online |
| Plays of Shakespeare: a Thematic Guide |
PR2987 .C28 2000 |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography (Shakespeare 62, 172, 263) |
PS129 .D5 and
online |
OTHER LIBRARY CATALOGS
Click on
Other Library
Catalogs to search additional library catalogs.
CATNYP
is the online catalog of the NYPL research library
LEO
is the online catalog of the NYPL Branch Libraries
Karen Dobrusky
Reference Librarian,
Barnard Library
212-854-8595
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