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LBS501 - Literature and War

Frank Lepkowski

238 Kresge Library

248-370-2497

lepkowsk@oakland.edu

Library Web Site:

http://library.oakland.edu

1.  Library Catalog Search Strategies for Books

Search the Voyager catalog to find books that we have on your topic.  Sample keyword strategies:

·         “civil war” and literature

·         Vietnam and novel?

·         poet? and war. 

Try to use keyword searches to 1. find useful material directly and 2. determine what the subject headings are for the particular war, genre, or national literature. 

·         Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 Poetry.

·         World War, 1939-1945 Literature and the war.

·         United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war.

·         War in literature.

2.  Journal Articles

Depending on the approach you take there are three comprehensive databases you may want to use:

Because the above databases are extremely comprehensive, they will many more entries for publications we do not own, than of those we do.

More selective databases, with a better match to our holdings include:

·         Humanities Abstracts

·         Social Sciences Abstracts

·         WilsonSelectPlus (all full-text articles from journals across the range of disciplines)

·         Expanded Academic ASAP (multidisciplinary database with much full-text)

Another good source for journal articles come from two of our e-journal collections.  Besides having full-text articles from the journals that are included, these two collections have their own search engines that are well worth checking directly:

·         JSTOR (Back runs of essential journals in the humanities and other subject areas up until the current three year span)

·         Project Muse (Journals in the humanities and social sciences published by Johns Hopkins and other university presses)