WR150: American Voices

Subject Headings.
Reference Works.
Indexes and Databases.
Additional Links.

SUBJECT HEADINGS.

Representative subject headings for locating books in the Boston University online Catalog include the following:

african americans in literature
american fiction african american authors
anderson sherwood
chopin kate
city and town life in literature
ellison ralph
fitzgerald f. scott
morrison toni
ohio social life and customs fiction
sedgwick catharine maria
steinbeck john
wharton edith

You can also search by author in the online catalog. For example:

sedgwick catharine maria

REFERENCE WORKS.

African-American Writers: A Dictionary. 2000.: Mugar Ref X PS153 N5 A3444 2000
Britannica Online. (BU-px)

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. (BU-px)

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature. (BU-px)
Critical Companion to John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. 2005.: Mugar PS3537 T3234 Z86623 2005
Edith Wharton A to Z: The Essential Guide to the Life and Work. 1998.: Mugar PS3545 H16 Z98 1998

F. Scott Fitzgerald A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. 1998.: Mugar PS3511 I9 Z459 1998
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writings in the United States. 1995.: Mugar Ref. X PS147 O94 1995
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2004.: Mugar Ref. X PS21 E537 2004

The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia. 2003.: Mugar PS3563 O8749 Z913 2003

INDEXES AND DATABASES.

ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) 1920 - . (ChRiv-px): The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975 - .(BU-px): Provides author, subject and citation access to the literature inthe humanities. Includes book reviews.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index. (BU-px): Comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

Book Review Index. 1965 - .: General index to book reviews of recent popular and academic books appearing in over 500 publications from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Mugar Ref. X Z1035 A1 F65.
Books in Print. (ChRiv-px): Contains full-text book reviews from several publications, including: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, CHOICE, Kirkus, Reference & Research Book News, Sci-Tech Book News, University Press Book News, Horn Book, Boston Book Review, and Quill and Quire.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974.: Citations to book reviews in an periodicals covering the fields of philosophy, classics, folklore, linguistics, music and literature. Mugar AI3 C652 Storage: Use Request Form
Contemporary Authors; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Dictionary of Literary Biography. (BU-px): Contemporary Authors provides a comprehensive collection of biographies of currently active authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select provides excerpts from critical works on most major twentieth century writers, grouped by individual titles within an author's body of work. Dictionary of Literary Biography contains detailed literary biographies of authors from a wide variety of genres, nationalities, and literary forms.
Ethnic NewsWatch. 1990 - . (BU-px): A comprehensive full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Includes book reviews.
Humanities Full Text. 1983 - .(ChRiv-px).: Indexes and abstracts periodical literature in the humanities. Includes full text of articles from nearly 250 journals as far back as 1995. For retrospective searching (1907-1984) use Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective, which indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals as early as 1907.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) (BU-px).: Full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to a few years ago) of scholarly journals, many of them in literature. Includes book reviews.
Lexis-Nexis Academic. dates vary-present. (BU px).: This full-text news database provides access to a broad geographic range of newspapers and journals, mostly published since the 1980s. To find book reviews: select "News," then "General News" (major English-language periodicals) or "U.S. News" (American English-language periodicals) or "World News" (international news sources) or "Foreign Language News" (sources in non-English languages); type "book review" in headline box. NOTE: The "Arts & Sports" section does allow you to limit to reviews; however, it indexes a very limited number of periodicals.
MLA International Bibliography. 1926 - . (BU-px): International index to journals, series, monographs, working papers, bibliographies and dissertations on modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
Project Muse. (ChRiv-px): Full-text articles from many humanities journals. Includes book reviews.

Readers' Guide Full Text. 1983+ (ChRiv-px).: Indexing and abstracts for more than 240 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of more than 120 of those periodicals. Full text coverage begins in 1994. For retrospective searching (1890-1982) use Readers Guide Retrospective, which indexes 375+ periodicals.

ADDITIONAL LINKS.

RefWorks

WR150 Research Guide

J. Christina Smith (email name: jchris)