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Short Story Research

THE NEXT FEW SLIDES WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO NAVIGATE THROUGH 4 KEY

LITERARY DATABASES:

• LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER• ARTEMIS

• SALEM PRESS LITERATURE• HUMANITIES RESOURCE COMPLETE

Finding literary criticism and analyses…

You can search by name of work,

author or a combination.

Let’s pick “Person Search.”

You can select from the titles

that first come up or type in the

name of the work you are looking for if you don’t

see it.

Here we typed in “The Man Who Would be King.”

Looking for D.H. Lawrence

Select “L” or type in name

Scroll down to analyses and short stories.

IN ADDITION TO LIBRARY DATABASES, BOOKS CAN BE A GOOD SOURCE OF

LITERARY ANALYSES.

Finding literary criticism in books…

Tip: You can also add your author’s name in

your search

to refine your

results.

Use the “call number” to find the book on the

shelf.

YOU CAN USE ANY OF THE LITERARY DATABASES JUST COVERED TO FIND THE

NAME OF ANOTHER SHORT STORY BY YOUR AUTHOR.

ONCE YOU HAVE THE NAME OF A SHORT STORY YOU WANT TO FIND IN FULL TEXT ,

YOU CAN (1) RUN A BOOK SEARCH CONTAINING THE ENTIRE SHORT STORY

OR (2) USE ARTEMIS.

Finding the text of another short story by your

author…

Library of Congress call

number is used to locate print books on the

library shelves.

Click on book link to see description.

This is an example of using a book in the library to find another short story in full text by your author.

ARTEMIS

Finding the text of a short story using…

Scroll down to

document type.

There are 79 short

stories in full text.

You have the full text of these stories by Kipling and can

view all 79.

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