Introduction
This page contains links to various resources to help you research for: Listening to the Past through Fairy Tales HONC 100. Navigate the pages on the left-hand side for additional links to resources. Currently, this is a developing guide; aspects of this guide may change or be added in response to the direction of individual students inquiries.
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Focused Databases
These are databases in focused subject areas that may articles related to your topic.
Literature
- MLA International Bibliography with Full TextIndexes materials from 1921 to the present in academic disciplines such as literature, literary theory and criticism, language, folklore, linguistics, and the dramatic arts.
- Gale LiteratureGale Literature combines the content of several Gale databases: Literature Resource Center, Literary Criticism Online, and more, forming the world’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database. Its rich critical, biographical and contextual content supports interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy and the development of critical-thinking skills.
- Gale Literature CriticismReviews and criticism on literature from all eras.Full-text and excerpted criticism, essays, and reviews of literary works beginning from the date of publication, up to the present. Particularly useful for looking at the reception of a work in its own time, or to view the changing reputation of a work or author over time. Formerly called Literature Criticism Online.
History
- Historical AbstractsHistorical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.
- Gale Primary SourcesGale Primary Sources allows researchers to uncover primary source documents in archives where they may not have thought to look, greatly enhancing their research experience. By building a seamless research environment for multiple collections, Gale is creating the largest digital humanities and social sciences collection in the world.
- ProQuest History VaultHistory Vault provides access to primary source, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on a wide array of topics in 19th and 20th-century American history.
Sociology
- SocINDEX with Full TextSocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
Multidisciplinary Databases
Use multidisciplinary databases to find articles related to your topic that were published in journals not included in the focused subject database. Using these broader databases often requires more narrowing in your search process.
- Academic Search CompleteAcademic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is among the most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
- Humanities SourceHumanities Source is designed to meet the needs of students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews, and indexing back to 1907.
- JSTORFull text of older issues of journals. Access includes Arts & Sciences I-XV, Business I Collection, Health & General Sciences Collection, and the Life Sciences Collection.
- FusionFusion allows you to search, in one place, the majority of the library’s books, articles, videos, etc. It includes all the materials in our library catalog Ignacio, as well as the content of the majority of our many databases.
- Google ScholarArticles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Click "more" below to customize Google Scholar to access USF library journal subscriptions.
Reference Resources
Academic encyclopedias are great for background information or basic facts on a topic.
Topic specific dictionaries are excellent for focused and nuanced definitions.
Subject bibliographies identify key, important, books and articles on focused subtopics.
You can find more online academic encyclopeidas here.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales by
ISBN: 9780313049477Publication Date: 2007-01-01The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife [4 Volumes] by
ISBN: 0313328471Publication Date: 2005-12-30The Classic Fairy Tales by
ISBN: 9780393602975Publication Date: 2016-12-12This Norton Critical Edition includes: · Seven different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Tricksters." These groupings include multicultural versions, literary rescriptings, and introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar. · Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. · More than fifteen critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales. New to the Second Edition are interpretations by Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Lüthi, Lewis Hyde, Jessica Tiffin, and Hans-Jörg Uther. · A revised and updated Selected Bibliography.
- Gale eBooksA great place to begin your research, Gale eBooks offers thousands of authoritative articles published in academic encyclopedias, and written by subject experts. Gale eBooks provides information you can not only trust, but cite in a paper as well. Formerly called GVRL: Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Books
The Ignacio Catalog reflects the holdings of the USF Libraries (Gleeson and Zief) including books and videos.
Other local libraries may provide additional resources
There are several excellent free, open access ebook platforms.
Worldcat reflects the holdings of thousands of libraries world wide. If you discover something that is not available at the USF Libraries you can request it through The Gleeson Library Inter Library Loan office.
- Ignacio: Library CatalogThe library catalog lets you search across the holdings of Gleeson Library and Zief Law Library, including books, videos, and other materials.
- San Francisco Public Library (SFPL)The San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) has branches all over the city including the Park and Richmond Branches which are close to USF.
- Hathi Trust Digital LibraryHathiTrust is a collaboration of academic and research libraries with 17+ million digitized items. They offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law. Gleeson Library is not a HathiTrust member but anyone can create a guest account.
- Open LibraryOpen Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3 million books.
- WorldCat Library SearchSearch for libraries all over the world by zip code, city, state, or country. Library policies will vary, so check the library's web site for information on access and use.
Maps
- David Rumsey Map CollectionThe David Rumsey Map Collection contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Items range in date from about 1550 to the present.
- Old Maps OnlineOldMapsOnline.org indexes over 400.000 maps. This is only thanks to the archives and libraries that were open to the idea and provided their online content.