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finding background information:
Literature On-line (Chadwyck-Healey)
Provider: Chadwyck-Healey
A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose. Includes complementary references sources. Offers access to information on English and American literature including bibliographies, and catalogs. Also provides access to online editions of literary works, discussion lists, electronic journals, and library catalogs. Includes links to English poetry texts, drama, and fiction. Also offers links to editions of the works of William Shakespeare, to American poetry, editions of the Bible, and Webster's dictionary.
Literature resource center
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.
Oxford English Dictionary
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.
Britannica online
Offers a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative reference sources,including Britannica's entire encyclopaedic database, articles not yet in the print Britannica encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica book of the year. Current Coverage.
finding scholarly articles:
Subject Portal
If you don't find the articles that you need in ProQuest or JSTOR, select one of the subject headings in the Subject Portal. You will find access to articles in all the disciplines.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Project Muse
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches a number of our library resources, such as JSTOR, Project Muse, online journals and more! Search results will give you the option to locate resources at Swarthmore.
getting the articles you have found:
In ProQuest and most databases, there is a 
button next to each citation. Click on it to find out if the article is available full-text online, to search Tripod for the journal in print, or to request the item through interlibrary loan. If FIND IT does not appear in your database, use Tripod to search for the journal title in your citation.
button next to each citation. Click on it to find out if the article is available full-text online, to search Tripod for the journal in print, or to request the item through interlibrary loan. If FIND IT does not appear in your database, use Tripod to search for the journal title in your citation.
If the journal is in print or online at Bryn Mawr (BMC) or Haverford (HC), you can request that the journal or article be sent to you. If a journal in not in Tripod, you can request the article using ILL. In both cases, follow the directions on the EZ-Borrow/ILL page.
citation styles:
The OWL at Purdue
The Purdue Online Writing Lab offers guides for formatting papers in APA and MLA, as well as general writing guidelines.
EndNote Web
Create a profile to use EndNote to format your bibliography.
BibMe
BibMe is a free and easy way to build a works cited page.
get more help:
You are always welcome to make an appointment to work with a librarian. To meet with me you can call x8542 or email bdensmo1@swarthmore.edu. You can also find me at the reference desk from 7:00-10:00pm on Tuesdays.