Literary Reference Center

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Literary Reference Center is a database


that provides students with over 35,000


plot summaries and nearly 100,000 articles


of literary criticisms on 19,600 short stories,


novels, poems, plays, fairy tales & fables and


even provides the full text of many of these.

 

 

There is something very important to

remember when using Literary Reference

Center! If you're searching for a title that 

begins with an article DO NOT include the 

article in the title. For example, if I am 

looking for criticisms about the short story

A Worn Path, I would enter Worn Path in the

search box. This is because Literary Reference

Center indexes all titles as Worn Path, A.

I suggest you choose Browse Most studied

Works and then enter the title.

Just for fun, click Most Studied Works
 
and enter A Rose for Emily. 

What kind of results did you get back?

Now try the same search using Rose 
 
for Emily. The advantage of Browsing 
 
Most Studied Works is that you get the
 
following results. Double click the image
 
to enlarge it.
 
This is a Plot Summary of the story. Notice
 
under Subject Terms, is a listing of many
 
of the Themes present throughout the story.
 
On the top left you have many other search 
 
options. From here, you can click on Literary
 
Criticisms. Those of you familiar with the 
 
EBSCO Databases will notice the toolbar
 
on the right side of the screen that appears
 
when you click on the title of any of these
 
articles. Literary Reference Center does your
 
citation for you. We now have a subscription
 
to Refworks, a database that actually will do 
 
your Works Cited page for you. You must
 
register for Refworks and be signed into the
 
database before you start searching. There is
 
another tutorial specifically for Refworks, if
 
you're interested.The URL is:
 
http://collin.libraryapplications.com/refworks.
 
 
This is the toolbar that you'll only see if you click
 
on the title of one of the articles.
 
Click the Cite link in the center and make
 
sure you have selected the MLA
 
Format and at the bottom of the screen
 
click the Export to Bibliographic Software
 
on the yellow toolbar. Then select Refworks.
 

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