This presentation reviews the strengths of the MLA International Bibliography and JSTOR as research resources for literature, including their subject coverage and search features. It demonstrates how to search the MLA Bibliography by author name or subject to find relevant articles and materials, and how to narrow results using limits. The presentation also provides guidance on conducting advanced searches in JSTOR by item type and keywords to locate journal articles within a specific discipline.
2. Goals
After viewing this presentation, you will understand:
1. The strengths of the MLA International Bibliography
and JSTOR as research resources for literature
2. MLA International Bibliography subjects
3. EbscoHost tools
4. JSTOR Advanced Search options
3. 1. The strengths of MLA and JSTOR
A. The MLA International Bibliography
1. An index of world literature studies built up since 1921
2. Organizes materials by subject: names, themes, topics
3. The broadest scope of any resource in this field;
includes books, journal articles, dissertations
4. Does not include Classical Greek and Latin literature
5. Links to full text through EbscoHost and the red UST
button
4. 1. The strengths of MLA and JSTOR
B. JSTOR
1. A full-text archive of journals (journal storage)
2. Searches keywords by relevance; no subject searching
3. Includes over 60 journals in Classical Studies (Greek
and Latin)
4. All non-Classical literature holdings are also indexed
in MLA
5. Goals
After viewing this presentation, you will understand:
1. The strengths of the MLA International Bibliography
and JSTOR as research resources for literature
2. MLA International Bibliography subjects
3. EbscoHost tools
4. JSTOR Advanced Search options
6. The MLA International
Bibliography.
Useful limits (excluding results that don’t
meet these criteria)
Don’t check “Linked Full Text”!
Use “Names as Subjects” to find materials
about a specific author
7. Here is a sample “Names as Subjects”
search for William Wordsworth. Check
the box by his name and click
“Search” to get all articles about
Wordsworth.
8. There are over 5,000 items on
Wordsworth going back to 1899. Use
the limiters in the left column to
narrow your results.
9. Under “Subjects” in the left column, click
“Show More” to see a list of subjects
listed in articles about Wordsworth.
Click a checkbox to see those articles.
10. Goals
After viewing this presentation, you will understand:
1. The strengths of the MLA International Bibliography
and JSTOR as research resources for literature
2. MLA International Bibliography subjects
3. EbscoHost tools
4. JSTOR Advanced Search options
11. The article record lists all the names,
works and topics associated with that
article.
Use these tools to email, cite,
or export the article record
to RefWorks!
12. To get full text of an article, click PDF Full
Text or the red UST button.
The UST button searches other databases
for the article. If no copy is available,
you are given a link to Interlibrary
Loan.
13. Goals
After viewing this presentation, you will understand:
1. The strengths of the MLA International Bibliography
and JSTOR as research resources for literature
2. MLA International Bibliography subjects
3. EbscoHost tools
4. JSTOR Advanced Search options
14. This is the basic search page for JSTOR.
Skip it. Click Advanced Search.
15. On the JSTOR Advanced Search page,
check the box next to your discipline
(“Language and Literature”).
Then, check: Narrow By: Item Type:
Article.
Then search for multiple keywords, for
example, the author AND the theme,
work or character you’re researching.
16. Here is an article record in JSTOR. Note
that only about 10% of records in
JSTOR have abstracts, like this one.
“View Citation” is not MLA-formatted.
Use “Export Citation” to send info to
RefWorks.
Click “View PDF” to access full text.
