Russ.ShortSt.II

Wellesley College Library

RUSS 125/WRIT 125: Great Short Stories from Russia

Once you have an author to research, there are several steps you should take to gather the information you will need for your paper.Always start by using the Wellesley College Online Catalog. You can get to get to the Catalog via the college's Home Page scroll down to Computing/Library, then to Library, & Library Catalog. Click on Library Catalog. Under the Research Resources column, click on Databases A-Z, Research Guides by Subject/by Course. There are two helpful sections under the Tips & Tools subheading on the right side of the page. Both Starting Your Research & Citing Sources will provide invaluable assistance once you have begun work on a major paper. For print version citation information, go to the main desk in the Reference Room. Copies of Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.), MLA Handbook, (6th ed.), and Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 5th ed.) are some of the print versions kept there for the convenience of students working on papers in the library who would prefer to use print citation guides.

Other sites of interest would be our new Reference Books Online section, the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) page, and Search the Web. [Just a cautionary note about using the WWW --- Literary comments from articles with no designated author, or an author with no stated credentials, should be suspect. Because it is on the Web does not mean the information is accurate!] Click on the Writing Subject page and look at the mentioned resources, both paper and electronic. These are reliable, scholarly resources that should be helpful as you do research for your chosen topic.

FindIt! @ Wellesley (click on the title for more information) is one of our newest features and helps retrieve more full-text articles than ever before. It will also link the user to NExpress or ILL if our libraries do not have access to the title. NExpress, comprised of a smalllocal consortium of schools, usually provides the fastest service.

To locate books in our collection: Use the Wellesley College Online Catalog. Some searching tips: To find books written by your author, do an author search (e.g. Babel, I. Isaak) For critical evaluations, do a keyword search & enter just the the author's name or the author's name and criticism (e.g. Isaak Babel criticism) Once these titles come up, further book records can be examined by clicking on the subject headings for any of the books listed. A keyword search is a good starting point for any central themes or specific literary authors, as well. (e.g.russian authors). Further topics can, again, be examined by looking at the subject line on each individual record.

As you work on your paper and look for resources, you will find there are basically four options available to you ---

Our libraries own a print copy.

Our libraries have the journal title on microfilm.

The article you need is in full text in one of our databases (See the Databases A to Z list).

Our libraries do not have access to the book or journal title. Request via ILL or Nexpress.

Complete Works of Isaac Babel edited by Nathalie Babel - Clapp Lib PG3476.B2 A23 2002

Critical Essays on Anton Chekhov edited by Thomas A. Eekman - Clapp Lib PG3458 .Z8 C75 1989

Handbook of Russian Literature edited by Victor Terras - Clapp Ref qPG2940 .H29 1985

Isaac Babel: The Lonely Years, 1925-1939; Unpublished Stories & Private Correspondence translated from the Russian by Andrew MacAndrew & Max Hayward - Clapp Lib PG3476.B2 A25

Isaak Babel, Russian Master of the Short Story by James E. Falen - Clapp Lib PG3476 .B2 Z66

Ivan Bunin: The Twilight of Emigre Russia, 1934-1953: A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, & Memoirs/edited by Thomas G. Marullo - PG3453 .B9Z724 2002

Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature by Rachel Rubin - Clapp Lib PS374.J48 R83 2000

Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers & Artists Between Hope & Apost by Efraim Sicher - Clapp Lib PG2998.J4 S5 1995

Modern Russian Literature [From Chekhov to the Present] by Marc Slonim - Clapp Ref PG3011 .S538

Phoenix & the Spider; A Book of Essays about Some Russian Writers & Their View of Self [Babel, Bunin, Chekhov, & Dostoevski] by Renato Poggioli - Clapp Lib PG3012 .P6

Reference Guide to Russian Literature/edited by Neil Cornwell - Clapp Ref PG2940 .R44 1998

Structure, Style, & Interpretation in the Russian Short Story [Chekhov, Dostoevski, Gogol, Turgenev] by Lawrence M. O'Toole - Clapp Lib PG3097 .O85

Twentieth Century Russian Literary Criticism [Babel, Chekhov, Dostoevski, Gogol, Nabakov] by Victor Erlich - Clapp Lib PG2932 .T9

First Search: To find books and other materials not at Wellesley College: Use WorldCat (via FirstSearch)

To locate other scholarly & non-scholarly articles: Check our e-Resources A-Z section for databases in all discipline areas, either in abstract form or full-text articles.

Academic Search Premier The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of coverage vary by title

ATLAReligion contains abstracts dealing with religious & theological literature.

Infotrac Onefile - Good starting point for scholarly, as well as popular articles in every discipline.

JSTOR - A collection of humanities, social sciences, & natural science journals from the earliest issues but NOT the latest 5 years. A full-text source.

Remember to follow these printing instructions once an article has been chosen for your further study. Click on "Set Preferences," "Printing," & "PDF:Economy - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader." Return to your JSOR session, click on "Print" command (under "Browse"). Click OK to the query, "Do you wish to print this article using PDF: Economy." Message will tell you your article is being downloaded. Once your reformatted articles appears on the screen, click the print icon on the black & gray bar @ the top of the article (NOT the printer icon on the IE bar).

Literature Online (LION) is an excellent resource for literary texts from 1600 to the present. Literary biographies and criticism are also included.

Periodicals Index Online - Full text articles from some 500 humanities and social science journals

Project Muse - Good scholarly articles, but they do not go back more than the most recent 5 years.

LexisNexis Academic News - This resource provides full-text articles from domestic and international news sources, dating from 1980s to the present.

New York Times - Historic database of the newspaper with exact replicas dating from 1851-2001.

Times of London - This new resource has facsimile images of specific articles and pages, dating from 1785-1985. It can provide the European viewpoint on events and/or authors during those years.

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