 |
British Literature: FLITE Resources |
Resources for Off-Campus Students
If you are enrolled as an off-campus student, you may wish to make use of some special services that the Library offers, including Document Delivery and remote access to our databases. See Distance Education Library Services for additional information.
Finding Books
To find books in the circulating collection (Main Stacks), use the Online Catalog. Type in the author's name (last name first name) as a Subject search. Look at the book titles listed under the main heading for the author, under the Criticism and Interpretation subheading, and under the subheading for the individual work (if listed). Students enrolled off-site can have books mailed to their home address. Please use our Document Delivery service to order book materials.
Finding Articles
Use the subscription databases available from the library's Web site to locate critical articles on British Literature. Please read Off-Campus Database Access for information on remote access to the databases.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary database which contains the full-text of articles from core journals in 26 academic disciplines. Coverage is from each journal's first issue and continues through 2-5 years from the most recently published issues. Seventy Language and Literature journals are included in JSTOR.
*Click here to access a guide on using JSTOR.
Literature Resource Center
This wide-ranging product from Gale Group includes much of the content found in Gale's various print reference series. Also included are full-text articles from over 250 literary journals as well as the ability to search the MLA Bibliography. Remember to use "Exact Title" when conducting title searches.
MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography is the most comprehensive source for citations relating to literature, linguistics, and folklore.
MLA includes over 1.3 million citations to articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and bibliographies extending back to 1963.
If you have a citation and need to see if FLITE owns the article in any format, click on the Find It link under each citation.
If you've determined that Ferris does not provide online access to a journal article that you need, request the article as an InterLibrary Loan. Generally, InterLibrary Loans from other libraries take about 5-10 business days to arrive. For journal articles that are in FLITE's print holdings, it usually only takes 24-48 hours for electronic delivery.
*Click here to access a guide on using Literature Resource Center.
Project MUSE
A partnership of several non-profit publishers, Project Muse offers full-text articles from over 250 journals. Full-text coverage for each journal varies but usually starts in the mid- to late- 1990s. Journals in Muse encompass the social sciences, humanities, and the arts; specific fields covered by Muse include literature and education.
*Click here to access a guide on using Project Muse.
Citing Sources
RefWorks
RefWorks is an online research management tool that allows users to create personal bibliographic databases and use them for a variety of research activities. References are quickly and easily imported from text files or online databases and records can be formatted in hundreds of output styles from APA, MLA, Chicago etc.
Citation Style Guide: MLA (PDF)
An online version of FLITE's MLA Quick Reference handout, requires Adoboe Acrobat Reader.
MLA Format
More examples of how cite different types of sources using the MLA format.
If you have any questions about research, Email Paul Kammerdiner.
Back | Library Home | Instruction Home
Last update: February 9, 2007