Literary Journalism 101A Library Guide

Literary Journalism 101A
History and Theory of Literary Journalism
Winter 2004 -- J. Hollowell

Library Contact

John Novak novakj@uci.edu

148 Main Library

This library guide will satisfy most of your research needs for your paper. However, the list is not comprehensive. Below is a list of other helpful subject guides found on the UCI Libraries' Page that provide other sources for research.

Criminology, Law and Society

English & Comparative Literature

History

Accessing these databases from home? Click on this NACS page link and learn how to configure your computer so that you may access all this valuable information through our proxy server or the Virtual Private Network (VPN).

LIBRARY CATALOGS

In a library catalog, you can discover whether UCI (or any UC library) owns a book, video, or newspaper on your topic.

Antpac Antpac Tutorial
Locate books, journals, government documents, electronic resources, microform, video & more at UC Irvine.

Melvyl
Locate books, journals, government documents, electronic resources, microform, video & more throughout the UC system. Note: If UCI does not own the item, use the "Request" button to retrieve it from Interlibrary Loan. If the item is available, it usually arrives within 3-7 working days after the request.

Search Strategy -- Keyword to Subject. When doing your research, start with a keyword search. When you find a book or another item that is ideally suited for your topic, look at the subject headings in the record. Then, perform another search under that subject heading. Below is a list of subject headings I have discovered that relate to Literary Journalism as a field:

Reportage Literature Reporters and Reporting

Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century American essays -- History and criticism

Nonfiction Novel

NEWSPAPERS

Below are links to online newspapers and a newspaper index. Except for the Historical Newspapers, most online newspapers only go back to 1980 at the very earliest. We also own newspapers on microfilm, many going back to the 1800s. These microfilms are located in the Current Periodicals Room, which is on the second floor of the Langson Library. To see if UCI owns a particular newspaper, do a "Title/Journal Title" search in Antpac. Click on The San Francisco Chronicle to see a sample Antpac record.

Newspaper Aggregators
The following newspaper collections are text only articles that provide primary sources for your research. The date range for these newspapers vary, with the oldest dates going back to 1980.

America's Newspapers (NewsBank)
Links to 269 newspapers across the United States. Go here for many local California newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times and the OC Register.

Confused about connectors? Click on the following help guide for connectors in America's Newspapers.

Lexis-Nexis
Full-text regional, national and international newspapers - including the Washington Post and the New York Times, as well as legal newspapers such as the National Law Journal.

In Lexis-Nexis, start with a "Guided News Search" to search different newpapers across the United States.

Confused about connectors? Click on the following help guide for connectors in Lexis-Nexis.

Historical Newspapers
Below are links to the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. The links below are scanned in newspaper articles as if you were reading them from microfilm. A great resource if you need pictures or if you need articles before 1980.

Los Angeles Times	1881-1953 (Historical)	1985-present
New York Times	1851-2001 (Historical)	2002-present
Wall Street Journal	1889-1985 (Historical)	1986-present

The Historical portions of these three newspapers can be searched simultaneously. To do so, visit any one of the Historical Newspaper links above. Once there, click on "Select Multiple Databases" and then choose the historical portions of the LA Times, NY Times, and Wall Street Journal.

Newspaper Indexes
Historical Newspapers Online
Indexes of newspaper articles from The Times® (London) and The New York Times and a substantial portion of full-text for The Times (London).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Below are links to the most common article indexes you'll be using for your paper. Click on the following for a complete listing of article databases.

Be sure to also visit the library tutorial on Finding Articles in Databases.

America: History and Life
The most authoritative listing of periodical literature, book and media reviews, and dissertations in United States and Canadian history.

American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900
Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Published between 1741 and 1900, the more than 1,000 titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several popular magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Expanded Academic contains records for articles from popular magazines, general interest journals, and scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences, published since 1980.

Historical Abstracts
The "world's leading historical bibliography" covers the history of the world from 1450 - present (excluding North America; AHL above).

19th Masterfile
19th Century Masterfile is the largest resource for pre-1920's studies, with over 6 million citations online. Includes Poole's, William Frederick Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, which indexes books, newspapers, periodicals and government documents on the 19th Century. It is a continually expanding resource for the study of Nineteenth-Century cultural and intellectual life.

Periodicals Content Index Full-Text
Indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from 1770 - 1995. PCI also has better international coverage than the above papers. Currently has over 200 complete journal runs for this time period.

Reader's Guide Retrospective
Covers the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 - 1982.

OTHER SITES

Online Reference Resources
Found on the UCI Libraries home page, this site contains links to reference resources that will be beneficial to visit during the beginning stages of your research. Two sections of this page that may be beneficial are the ones for Biography and Encyclopedias.

AccuNet/AP Photo Archive (Associated Press images)
Search and download images from the AP photo archive. Images you may find include crime scenes and photos of those involved in the crime.
Search Tip: Use single quote marks around names or any sting of words to be searched together (e.g. 'Lizzie Borden').

Crime Library
Site produced by Courtroom Television. Contains brief accounts of various crimes.

Google and Evaluating Web Pages
Google is one of the premier search engines of Internet pages. But Google also contains a lot of unreliable information. Before you use any information in Google, please be sure to evaluate the content and the authority of that Web site. The above "Evaluating Web Pages" developed by a librarian at UC Berkeley will help you do so.

WHERE TO GO FOR ADDITIONAL HELP

Email Me:
novakj@uci.edu

Ask a Librarian Service.
Click on the link to utilize UCI's own online reference service. Options include EMAIL and LIVE chat.

Set up a Research Consultation
UC Irvine students, faculty and staff may schedule a 30 minute consultation with a reference librarian to focus on your research needs. Appointments should be scheduled in advance.

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Last Updated Feb. 17, 2004