Reference resources refer to the item we are examining. They are typically wayfinding tools which provide vital information about accessing, identifying, and citing the materials we are researching.
Examples of Reference resources:
Biography is an account of a person’s life. They can be short or long; some are only a paragraph or two and recount basic facts like when a person was born and when they died, where they lived. Others are quite long and go into specific details of a person’s accomplishments and experiences.
We can use biography as a possible lens with which to interpret literature. An author’s biography can provide information about what authors are known for, important contributions they have made,
Biography can be found in a variety of places.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography is the online version of the series with the same name that provides biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of authors from all eras and genres.
Collections of poetry, prose and drama from authors of diverse, underrepresented groups, reflecting different ethnicities, beliefs and orientations. Includes contemporary and historical criticisms.
Gale Literature Resource Center offers a wide range of literary resources for researchers to support their own responses, analysis, and thesis statements. It includes primary works, analysis, biographical information, criticism, and reviews that promote interdisciplinary approaches and critical thinking.
C19 Index is a dynamic and growing resource, including a full range of 19th century source material and provides integrated access to finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives.
C19 Index includes:
Books
•Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue
•The Nineteenth Century
Periodicals
•American Periodicals
•British Periodicals
•Cotgreave's Index
•An Index to Legal Periodical Literature
•Cumulative Index to Niles' Register 1811–1849
•Periodicals Index Online
•Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
•Stead's Index to Periodical Literature
•The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Official Publications
•House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
•Proceedings of the Old Bailey
•The U.S. Serial Set
Archives
•Archive Finder
Newspapers
•Palmer's Index to The Times
Reference
•The "Bookman" Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors
•Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism
Books In Print is a trusted resource for bibliographic information and collection development tools, containing over 40 million books in print, electronic, audio, and multimedia formats. Libraries worldwide use it to create wish lists and find titles, ebook platforms, and publishers.
This bibliography is an index to texts by and about women writers from the early modern period. Included are many previously unknown authors from both the British Isles and the colonies. The texts are searchable by author, title, keyword, genre, or form.
The Berg Collection is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian holdings are the undisputed jewel in its crown. Includes unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings that trace the inspiration and genesis behind the period’s greatest works.
Materials include 17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
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