Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
It is often helpful to begin your research by reading a basic overview of your subject. Encyclopedias and dictionaries provide such basic overviews, and they often provide helpful suggestions for further reading as well.
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| Cayton, Mary Kupiec and Peter W. Williams, editors. Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History. 3 vols. (New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, c2001). |
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Location : Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R973.92 En19
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Locations : Barnard Reference & US History & Literature Reading Rm, 502 Butler (Non-Circ)
Call Number: E169.1 .E624 2001
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
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Includes online full text of a wide range of encyclopedic works in history, the arts, business, law, medicine, religion, and social science. A number of the encyclopedias linked from this page are included in this database. |
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| Groden, Michael Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism [electronic resource]. 2nd ed. (Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). |
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Also available in print:
Location: Butler Reference Desk, 301 Butler
Call Number: R803 J621
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Locations: Barnard Reference & Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN81 .J554 2005 |
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| Hart, James David ; with revisions and additions by Phillip W. Leininger. The Oxford companion to American literature. 6th ed. (New York : Oxford University Press, 1995). |
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Location: Butler Reference Desk, 301 Butler
Call Number: R803.1 Ox2146 |
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| Head, Dominic, ed. The Cambridge guide to literature in English. 3rd ed. (Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006). |
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Location: Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R803.2 C1442 |
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| Kastan, David Scott, editor in chief. The Oxford encyclopedia of British literature. 5 vols. (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006). |
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Location: Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R820 Ox2 |
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| OED online (also known as: Oxford English Dictionary Online) |
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The largest dictionary and most complete historical record of the English language. |
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| Oxford Reference Online |
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Contains the texts of more than 100 reference titles published by Oxford University Press. |
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| Parini, Jay, editor-in-chief. The Oxford encyclopedia of American literature. 4 vols. : ill. (New York : Oxford University Press, 2004). |
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Location: Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R810.3 Ox2
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Locations: Barnard Reference & US History & Literature Reading Rm, 502 Butler
Call Number: PS21 .E537 2004 |
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Research Guides
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| Harner, James L. Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies. 4th ed. (New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2002). |
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Location: Butler Reference Desk, 301 Butler
Call Number: R016.82 H229
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Location: US History & Literature Reading Rm, 502 Butler
Call Number: Z2011 .H34 2002
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| Library Catalogues |
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| CLIO: Columbia University Libraries Online Catalog |
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CLIO is the online catalog for the Columbia, Barnard and Union Theological Seminary libraries. It includes Over 5 million records, covering over 95% of the Libraries' collections. CLIO covers library materials of all kinds: books, journals, newspapers, online resources, government documents, microforms, sound recordings, video recordings, archival collections. CLIO records for electronic versions of books and journals contain links to the online full text. |
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| WorldCat |
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Lists books and other materials from a large number of libraries in the United States and throughout the world. |
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| The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) |
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Covers monograph and serial publications:
* Printed before 1801.
* Printed in the British Isles, Colonial America, United States of America (1776-1800), Canada, or territories governed by Britain, in all languages.
* Printed in any other part of the world, wholly or partly in English or other British vernaculars.
* With false imprints claiming publication in London, in any language |
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