Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

Postwar American Poetry of the 1950s & 60s

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Reprints of literary criticism appearing in the reference series published by Thomson Gale.

Gale Literary Index
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z.
Online master index to reprints of literary criticism in the library's print reference collection on level A. Best used to target specific works, such as individual poems. Good for early reviews too.

Secondary sources (criticism) and primary documents (letters, autobiography) published as books

Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
Catalog of all books Trexler Library.

WorldCat
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Database > Most Popular > WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation. Use E-ZBorrow for faster interlibrary loan.

E-ZBorrow
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > ILL > E-ZBorrow
A catalog of books and documents in the libraries of PALCI, to which Muhlenberg College belongs. Submit interlibrary loan requests here for rapid delivery.

Literary reviews and personal interviews published in popular periodicals of the period

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900-1997
ACCESS: Reference Room, Index Area, level A of Trexler Library
Indexes popular reviews. Periodicals can then be located on C level of Trexler Library, or interlibrary loaned. Check online catalog for availability.

International Index (to Periodicals), 1920-1965
ACCESS: Reference Room, Index Area, level A of Trexler Library
Indexes scholarly reviews. Periodicals can then be located on C level of Trexler Library, or interlibrary loaned. Check online catalog for availability.

New York Times Index (1913-present)
ACCESS: Reference Room, Index Area, level A of Trexler Library
After looking in the index, the full text of the NYT can then be located on and printed from microfilm in the library's multimedia room on level A.

Scholarly literary criticism in articles (and also chapters in books)

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Traverse a wide range of popular and scholarly periodicals.

JSTOR
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Archive from Stanford University of scholarly journals in all subject areas.

Project Muse
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Recent archive of journals from a number of academic presses.

subject-specialty indexes. . .

MLA
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for literary criticism. Some full text. A great way to track shifts in critical attention.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Text at Trexler link found next to the citation, or run a journal title search in Trexler Library's online catalog. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > ILL

Search engines

Popular

Google (http://www.google.com)
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.

Scholarly (use with discretion)

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
An open-access web crawler that looks for content it identifies as "scholarly." Emphasis is on books and journal articles. Intended as a "federated search" to search across disciplines (weighted toward sciences and social sciences). Not always full text. Check our online catalog to see if Muhlenberg College has access to the full text. Especially useful as a citation index.

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.