Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

20th Century Russian Literature in Translation

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
IM (AIM, Yahoo, MSN): refcannon
Reference desk IM: talktotrexler

Where can I find authoritative websites on 20th century Russian literature?

Encyclopedia Britannica Online (free version) (http://www.britannica.com/)
Search on a name, then from within the entry, choose the link to "Internet Guide."

Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/)
The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.

Where can I get ideas for topics?

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Unsigned articles. Seek corroboration. For an "invited" peer review encyclopedia, see Scholarpedia (http://www.scholarpedia.org/).

What about full-length biographies and literary criticism published in books?

Trexler Library Catalog
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Books, Videos, Music
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
NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website >Books, Videos, Music > 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.

What about scholarly literary criticism published in journals and as book chapters?

MLA
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Best source for searching for literary criticism by theme, such as women and bulgakov. Full text can be downloaded directly, or interlibrary loaned.

Gale Literary Index
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
The full text of nearly all articles indexed is available in the reference room of Trexler Library, in three series most pertinent to this course: Contemporary Literary Criticism (Ref Collection 809.04 C761), Short Story Criticism (Ref Collection 809.31 S559s), and Poetry Criticism (Ref Collection 809.1 P745c).

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. Not always full text. Check our library's online catalog (see above) to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text of a journal.

Getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article or book chapter you're interested in, click on the Get It link found next to the citation, or run a search on the journal title or the book title in Trexler Library's online catalog. NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > catalog.

How do I format a "works cited" page (aka bibliography) using the MLA style?

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.

How do I write annotations for an annotated bibliography?

For help in writing annotated bibliographies in the MLA style, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/) for a definition of an annotation and proper format.