Women and Literature

Bob Gorman
Reference Librarian
Dacus Library
June, 2008

Locating Information in Dacus Online Catalog :

DOC can be searched for information on the library's holdings in a number of different ways.  Searching by author or title will result in the location of a specific book.  A search by subject will locate books on general or specific topics.

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Suggested Sources in the Reference Collection

Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933:  An Anthology and Critical Guide edited by Ann Allen Shockley.
REF PS508 .N3 A36 1988.

American Indian Authors:  A Representative Bibliography compiled and edited by Arlene B. Hirschfelder.
REF PM155 .B1 H57 1970.

Asian American Literature:  An Annotated Bibliography by King-Kok Cheung and Stan Yogi.
REF PS153 .A84 B1 C44 1988.

Asian Pacific American Heritage:  A Companion to Literature and Arts edited by George J. Leonard.
REF PS153 .A84 .A87 1999.

Asian American Short Story Writers:  An A-to-Z Guide edited by Guiyou Huang.
REF PS153 .A84 .A828 2003.

Black American Women in Literature:  A Bibliography, 1976 through 1987 by Ronda Glikin.
REF PS153 .N5 B1 .G55 1989.

Dictionary of Native American Literature edited by Andrew Wiget.
REF PM155 .D53 1994.

The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond:  Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945 by Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph.
REF PS153 .N5 R65 1990.

History of Southern Women's Literature. REF PS261 .H534 2002

Native North American Literature:  Biographical and Critical Information on Native Writers and Orators from the United States and Canada from Historical Times to the Present edited by Janet Witalec.
REF PS508 .I5 N38 1994.

Native American Writers of the United States edited by Kenneth M Roemer.
REF PS129 .D52x vol. 175.

Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia By and About Women of Color. REF PS153 .N5 .W756 2006.

Electronic Databases (Full Text)

Scribner Writers Series (Online with some titles in the Reference Collection)

Essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 Scribner print series.

Literature Resource Center

Provides access toContemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and other literature resources.

JSTOR

Scholarly journal archive covering all subject areas, many going back to the 19th century; includes 49 journals in language and literature.

Academic Search Premier

Provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.  Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975; updated daily.

Academic OneFile

A multi-disciplinary index to nearly 11,000 journals, about half of wich are full-text. Includes both scholarly and popular sournce.

Electronic Indexes (Citations only, with some links to full-text in other databases)

Arts and Humanities Search

Covers over 1,000 journals published from 1975 to the present and provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, painting and illustrations.  A large proportion of the articles indexed are available in linked full-text.

MLA International Bibliography

Consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1963 to the present; covers nearly 4,000 journals and series as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and other formats.