English 1, K. Foster, Instructor
Judy Clark Baumgardner, Librarian
The URL for this page is:  http://www.cos.edu/library/judyb/english1foster.htm

GUIDE FOR RESOURCES IN ENGLISH 1

1.  Library Homepage

2.  COS Books
      Reference Books
      Circulating Books

3.  NetLibrary Books

4.  Electronic Resources

5.  Periodicals

6.  Search Tips

COS LIBRARY HOMEPAGE:  http://www.cos.edu/library/ 

COS REFERENCE BOOKS
Examples of books containing information about Langston Hughes and his works
    Poetry Criticism  R 809.1 P745
     Contemporary Literary Criticism  R 808.04 C761  &  Annual Cumulative Title Index
     Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Annual Cumulative Title Index  R 809.04 T971
     Critical Survey of Poetry  R 809.1 C934
     Masterplots II  Poetry Series  R 809.1 M423
     American Writers A Collection of Literary Biographies Supplement 1, Part 1  R 810.9 A512
     Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature Volume II  R 810.992 G816
     Oxford Companion To African American Literature  R 810.8 Ox98

 Several examples of miscellaneous books
     Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography  English & American  R 920.03 EV93 
     Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics  R 809.103 En56

COS CIRCULATING BOOKS 
Search the online book catalog by title, subject, author & key word.

NETLIBRARY E-BOOKS
 Electronic full-text copies of published print materials. Can access NetLibrary on campus, but will need a NetLibrary user account for access from a computer outside the COS library.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
 The COS Library databases are accessible both on and off campus. To have remote access, see appropriate handout.

Here is an example of an online magazine index search strategy.  It contains many full-text articles.

    Infotrac (Expanded Academic ASAP) 

You can use the other online databases for more information/material by clicking here.

PERIODICALS
Here are just some magazines and journals that COS owns that might be helpful.

• American Literature

• Explicator

• Journal of Popular Culture

• Literature Cavalcade (1966-My2005)

• Lyric

• Modern Fiction Studies

• New York Times Book Review

• PMLA

• Papers on Language and Literature

• Short Story International (1978-Fe1997)

• Studies in Short Fiction (Winter 1971-1999)

For a list of all magazines that the COS Library owns click here.

SEARCH TIPS
Click here for general search tips.