Library Resources for ENGL312 Professor: Michael Hopkins   By Diane Dates Casey

General Information

• Library Information for Humanities Students - General information about using the Governors State University Library.
• Governors State University Library - Main page for GSU Library Web site.

Online Library Catalog

• GSU Online Catalog - The web version of GSU Library Online Catalog where books, videos, sound recordings, computer files can be found.  Also, the titles of the journals owned by GSU can be identified with a title search.

Indexes for Journal Articles

• MLA Bibliography - Indexes language and literary journals..

Full-text Journal Article Databases 

• Academic Search Complete
• FirstSearch 
• JSTOR 
• Oxford English Dictionary  Click on Enter OED Online.
• Project MUSE
• ProQuest  

While the above links are only a sampling of GSU's full-text databases, they probably will contain the articles relevant to this assignment, if they are full-text online.  To determine which database might contain an article in full-text go to the Full-text Journals List.

Evaluating Web Documents

• Criteria for Web Evaluation

Interlibrary Loan
When books and journal articles are unavailable through I-Share or not included in GSU's print or full-text online journals collections, place an Interlibrary Loan Request for the materials at the Reference Desk in the library or online.

• Request a Book via Interlibrary Loan
• Request a Journal Article via Interlibrary Loan

Resources for Writing Research Papers

• Governors State Regional Online Writing Center (GROWL)  
• Examples of MLA Citations - Citations should be indented when extended beyond the first line.
• Writing About Literature - Norton Publishers provide resources on how to critique and write about literature.
• Quotes, Paraphrases & Plagiarism - A Web PowerPoint Presentation.
• Quotes, Paraphrases & Plagiarism - PowerPoint Presentation
• Quoting and Paraphrasing - Links to resources on quoting and paraphrasing.

Librarian Subject Specialists

• GSU Library: Subject Areas and their Librarians 

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