Research Guides: Perks of Being a WallFlower: Multidisciplinary/Humanities

Catalog Searching

The library catalog of the Rutgers University Libraries gives students and faculty ready access to over 3 million print volumes in 25 Rutgers collections, plus multimedia and many full-text electronic journals. You may limit searches to DANA. Use the button to borrow books from other Rutgers libraries, or use the button to obtain articles from other Rutgers libraries.

Here are some sample searches:

Shyness or social anxiety -- WORDS anywhere (This is a keyword search.)

Williams Tennessee -- SUBJECT begins with (This search will retrieve books ABOUT the works of Tennessee Williams.)

Women Southern States-- SUBJECT keyword (This search will retrieve books by Library of Congress subject heading.)

Absentee Fathers-- SUBJECT keyword (This search will retrieve books by Library of Congress subject heading.)

Single Mothers-- SUBJECT keyword (This search will retrieve books by Library of Congress subject heading.)

Children of alcoholics-- SUBJECT keyword (This search will retrieve books by Library of Congress subject heading.)

American Literature -- PERIODICAL TITLE begins with

Book Delivery

How to Get a Book That Is Not at Dana

1. Use the DELIVER/RECALL BOOK button inside the IRIS catalog to borrow books from other Rutgers libraries.

2. Book not at Rutgers? Go to E-ZBorrow (PALCI) and sign in with your Net ID.

3. Book not in E-ZBorrow? Go to ILLIAD and use the book interlibrary loan request.

Finding Articles

Literature Resource Center
Excellent, full-text introductions to authors and their works, designed for an undergraduate audience.
Academic Search Premier
Contains some literature among its many subject areas. Searches exact phrases. Will output references in MLA format. Try some of these:

gay teenagers

gay youth

suicide
AND
teenagers

sexual abuse
AND
teenagers

writers
AND
childhood
Literature Online (LION)
Provides more than 350,000 full-text literary works as well as author biographies, entries from reference works, and literary criticism.
MLA International Bibliography
One of the oldest lit crit databases, this offering from the Modern Language Association indexes criticism on the literature of all genres, all languages, and all countries, beginning in 1926. The EbscoHost format makes bibliography output in MLA format a breeze.
JSTOR
Full-text backfiles of important academic journals in many fields, including literature. WARNING: Most materials in this database are more than five years old.
Project Muse
Recent full-text articles, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.

Other Humanities Sources

Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Multidisciplinary database in the humanities; covers core journals in religion, philosophy, archaeology, music, and many more fields.
ATLA Religion Index
Database in religion and theology. Good for religious aspects of topics.
Philosopher's Index
Covers material in philosophy, including ethics and morality. Good source for moral and ethical aspects of topics.
America: History and Life
History of the US and Canada, all years.