To locate books at the Tri-College Libraries:

                                            1. Start with a KEYWORD search.
                                            2. Look at relevant items.
                                            3. Note the subject headings assigned to those items.
                                            4. Finally, search by those subject headings.

                                            3. Note the subject headings assigned to those items.
                                            4. Finally, search by those subject headings.

Or you can search by Subject. Click the highlighed subjec headings below to be taken to a list of books in Tripod on that topic.

Transvestites Drama
Transvestism
As You Like It Shakespeare William 1564 1616
Bacchae Euripides

If all copies of a book in Tripod are checked out, don't worry, use E-Z Borrow to request the book from a partner library.  These books are delivered in 2-7 days.

A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

This is the main database for English Literature.

Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.

An obvious choice, but don't limit your search to just JSTOR. Make sure to try MLA and LRC as well.

Contains the complete text of the 20-volume OED, 2nd edition, published in 1989. Presents the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense, history, pronunciation, and etymology. Coverage current.

"Shakespeare's Bawdy must rank as one of the great Eric Partridge's most outstanding accomplishments. In it Partridge, regarded by Anthony Burgess as 'a human lexicographer, like Samuel Johnson', was able to combine his detailed knowledge of Shakespeare with his unrivalled knowledge of Elizabethan slang and innuendo. It is, as he describes it, 'a literary and psychological essay and a comprehensive glossary', which opened the window upon a long-avoided aspect of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's Bawdy is a work of delight and insight that has an appeal that transcends time and class. Acclaimed by Stanley Wells, editor of The Oxford Shakespeare, as 'a classic of Shakespeare scholarship', it takes its place alongside other classics with a well-deserved, if slightly cheeky, impunity. For sheer reading pleasure, Shakespeare's Bawdy is a wonderful addition to any bookshelf."--BOOK JACKET.

Provides a customized view of electronic and print reference holdings. Searchers instantly know which titles are held by Swarthmore, and can click through to online articles in all major reference databases, as well as see the local records in Tripod. Covers 1985-present.

EndNote is a powerful bibliographic management tool that allows you to search online resources (like Tripod), compile citations in one place, and format your bibliography and footnotes. The learning curve is a bit steep and you only have access to it while you are a student. But it is great for thesis writers and those doing extensive or multiple research papers.

Zotero is similar to EndNote except that it is free andworks only on Firefox. It is easier to use than EndNote with many of the same functionalities (so similar, in fact, that they are being sued by EndNote). The disadvantage is that you have to download it to your computer and you can't access it if you are using another computer on campus. But if you use your laptop exclusively, give this one a try.

This guide deals with the proper way to cite various kinds of sources, demonstrating all the major citation styles (MLA, Chicago, Turabian, APA). See the "Assembling a List of Works Cited" guide for help with putting together a bibliography.

BibMe is the low rent alternative to EndNote and Zotero. It basically just creates a bibliography for you (in a style of your choice) if you can find the titles in Amazon. Dirty, quick, easy. A last minute solution.

A handout from the Writing Center, explaining how to avoid plagiarism and when citations are necessary.