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Elizabeth Seton Library

Literature: Visions and Values
(Search Strategy)

Books: Use the Online Book Catalog to identify resources located in our library or other colleges. Try entering the keyword eliot, t s. and interpretation.  Try entering the keyword freud and psychology. You may conduct searches while accessing all WALDO libraries. Try entering these keyword examples: dubliners and criticism, hamlet and psychology, psychoanalysis and literature. For controlled vocabulary searching, take notice of the Subject Headings on the bottom of each bibliographic record. Try a subject search by clicking on a Subject Heading.

Journals: A number of databases can provide you with "citations" and “full-text” articles relevant to your topic. An index will supply you with “citations and abstracts”only.

Ebsco Research Databases

• Academic Search Premier

*Check the box for "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals"

Enter the keywords: oedipus rex

Enter the keywords: clinical depression and symptoms and women

• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition,
  PsycARTICLES
  PsycINFO 

Try these keywords: superego and reality, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, narcissistic and males, operant conditioning

Using PsycInfo search the Thesaurus for controlled vocabulary used to standardize the indexing in this database. This enables you to select and search for synonyms, related terms, and preferred terms, and also to see descriptions of the terms. Enter the word personality.

Note: Try with and without full-text limiting.  Look at Subject headings links for controlled vocabulary searching. E-mail your citations and articles home!

• MLA 

Try entering the keywords: hamlet and treatment of self

Try entering the keywords: bartleby the scrivener and treatment of mental-illness 

Try searching the title: good country people

Create a Search History
Enter Melville as a subject search
Enter treatment of self as a subject search
Combine checked results 

Create a Search History
Try entering the keywords: poe edgar allan
Try entering the keyword: psychology
Enter the keywords: black cat
Combine checked results  

Note: Search the Thesaurus for controlled vocabulary used to standardize the indexing in this database. This enables you to select and search for synonyms, related terms, and preferred terms, and also to see descriptions of the terms. Enter the word psychology.

• MagillOnAuthors

Try searching for information on the author: Ibsen, Henrik

• MagillOnLiterature

Enter the title: a rose for emily
Try a character search using: doaker charles

Proquest

*Check the box were it reads: "Show peer reviewed articles"

Try a basic keyword search: ibsen and doll house date range:  Backfile (1986-1998)

Try locating a citation: 

Mirror Images on Otherness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstien  Dean Franco;  
Literature and Psychology,  Providence; 1998; Vol. 44, Iss. 1/2; pg. 80, 16 pgs

Search Methods  > Publication  > Literature and Psychology  > Locate desired issue

E-mail your citations and articles home!

Internet

The Literary Gothic is a Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20. http://www.litgothic.com/

This is a directory of online papers on consciousness and related topics. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/online.html

Literaryhistory.com is a guide to critical articles on literature for readers, students, scholars, writers, and teachers. All links lead directly to articles, and articles must meet basic academic standards to be included. http://www.literaryhistory.com/

Sparknotes study guides are written by Harvard students and graduates. http://sparknotes.com/