Getting Started Guide: Literary Criticism: Databases

Tip:  If you are getting too many results from a search

• Try putting quotation marks around the title, for example:

"The Kitchen God's Wife" instead of The Kitchen God's Wife.

• Try adding the author's last name to the search, for example:
  

"The Kitchen God's Wife" AND Tan

Tip:  If you are getting too few results from a search

• Try searching only part of the title, for example:

If the exact book title is Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe then try searching for just the main title Silas Marner 

• Try leaving out punctuation - especially semicolons, periods, and commas

Tip:  If the item is not full-text

• Use Journal Finder
  

Search the Journal Title (not the article title) to see if the library has the journal available in another database or in print/microform in the library.

• Use the Online Catalog

Search to see if the book is available in the library.

• Use the Interlibrary Loan Service
  

Request an item be sent to this library from another library.