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English1B Booth: Databases

Research Guide for Dr. Booth's ENG1B Class

Using the Databases

This database includes literary criticism from scholarly journals, as well as work overviews from reference books.

For best results, use the "Works Search" search to find information on poems, short stories, novels and plays. 

Use the "Person Search" to get information on a particular author. 

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A "Works Search" on George Orwell's novel Animal Farm yields the following results:

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Literature Resource Center

For best results, use the "Works Search" search to find information on poems, short stories, novels and plays. 

Use the "Person Search" to get information on a particular author. 

To locate print reference sources, you may use the Gale Literary Index.  For more information on this process, please refer to the "Finding Critical Essays in Reference" tab under the "Books" tab of this guide.

 

A "Works Search" of George Orwell's novel Animal Farm gives the following results:

 

 

Clicking on the second choice in the list yields the following:

Note the "Content Types" in the right-hand column.  You can click any of the links to get the full list of results for each type of resource.