We have many online reference sources for biographical background on authors and historical figures. Try the following:
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CSEM 001 : How Societies Remember (BMC)
Finding Biographical Information:
Biography resource center
Provides access to biographical sources on over 325,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
American national biography
Provides biographical portraits of more than 17,400 men and women whose lives have shaped the nation. Updated quarterly
Literature resource center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
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.
Finding Books:
Tripod library catalog.
For locating books, journals, videos, and electronic resources held at Tri-College libraries. For delivery within the Trico use the "Request" option for one or two day turnaround. You can mark and then email or print records for multiple items.
To locate BOOKS ,
try a searching by various keywords, i.e.,
- "toni morrison" memory
- monument* memory
- slavery memory, etc.
- Memory in Literature
- Collective Memory
- Memory--Social aspects
- Memory--Political aspects
Interlibrary Loan and E-ZBorrow - The books and articles you need for your research may not be available within the Tri-colleges. We have two systems available to help you retrieve the materials you need. See this page to place your requests.
Finding Full Text Journal Articles:
JSTOR
JSTOR contains the full text of scholarly journal articles in many subject areas from their inception through three or five years ago.
- Type your search terms in the search box. The basic search screen behaves like a Google search; “AND” is not needed. Example: toni morrison beloved memory. Then click Search.
- For more control over search results, try an Advanced Search. You can type your search terms in the “All of these words” box, and limit by year, article type, and discipline.
- Browse the list of matching articles. They are ordered from most to least relevant.
- Click Print when you get to an article you like, so that you can download the full PDF instead of looking at the pages one at a time.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
ProQuest Research Library provides indexing, abstracts and many full-text articles from 1,700 academic periodicals in all subjects. Articles from 1971 through today.
- Enter your terms, with one concept on each line. You can enter related terms on a single line, connected with “or”.
- By default, you’ll be searching the titles and abstracts of the articles; this will bring you more focused results. If you aren’t finding enough articles, you can search the full text by clicking the down arrow next to “Citation and abstract,” and change the selection to “Citation and document text.”
- Limit search to “Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed” to retrieve articles from scholarly journals.
Finding Articles in specialized databases (with links to full text!)
Use specialized databases to delve more deeply into the literature of a specific discipline. You’ll find citations for articles in journals that aren’t covered in JSTOR, and for articles that are not freely available on the web.
Go to the library’s subject page for the discipline you’re interested in, and try some of the “start here” resources. Here are some suggestions:
- Literature: MLA International Bibliography, or Literature Online
- History: America: History & Life, or Historical Abstracts
- Psychology: PsychInfo
Search Tips:
- To search, put your terms in the Keywords box, usually connected with “and”. If you have a phrase, put it in quotes.
- When you find a citation you like, click FindIt! to see if we have the article online or in the library.