Selected Library Resources for WR 150-Autobiography

Library Catalog
http://library.bu.edu/

Catalog Search

  • Subject search: Plath, Sylvia
  • Subject search: Plath, Sylvia Bibliography
  • Subject search: Plath, Sylvia Criticism and Interpretation
  • Keyword search: Psychoanalysis and Depression
  • Subject seach: Feminism United States History 20th Century
  • Subject search: Nineteen Fifties
  • Subject search: Housewives United States History
  • Subject search: Freud, Sigmund

Journal Articles

JSTOR
JSTOR is a full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to approximately five years ago) of core scholarly journals. Includes journals covering literary criticism and a wide variety of subjects in the humanities and social sciences.

Literature Online (LION)
An excellent site to find both primary and secondary sources on literature.

MLA International Bibliography
The pre-eminent source for articles on literature and literary criticism.

Social Sciences/Humanities Full-Text

An important index to periodical articles published in these subject areas.

PsycINFO
Major source for article citations, including some full-text, on psychology-related topics.

Project Muse
Similar to JSTOR, this database provides full-text articles from many humanities journals.

Women's Studies International 
A superb source for interdisciplinary research on this topic.

Citation and Footnote Styles

B.U. Research Guide-Citation Styles
This guide provides very useful listings of both print guides available in B.U. libraries and electronic guides to compiling a bibliography and using footnotes.

RefWorks
An extremely useful bibliographic management database which will help organize your bibliographies, footnotes and endnotes.

Donald Altschiller, History Bibliographer, Mugar Memorial Library
email: donaltsc@bu.edu

http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/wr150autobiography.html


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