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