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Finding books
- Search Omni for books on your topic. In the search facets under "Modify your search", limit to "Books and eBooks"
- COVID-19 update
- If you live near Laurier, you can request a book using Books to Go
- limit all your results by choosing "Available online" under "Modify your search"
- Use the Omni Advanced search for a particular author
- for items written by the author, search using the "Author" field
- for items written about the author, search using the "Subject" field (if no results, also try as a keyword search)
- Omni Advanced search
- TIP: If you want criticism about a novel or author information, you may find a chapter in a book about the author or about a larger topic rather than an entire book devoted to a single novel. e.g,
- Dickson-Carr, Dickson-Carr. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. https://doi.org/10.7312/dick12472.
- Teuton, Sean Kicummah. Native American Literature: a Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
eBook tips
- While Omni contains records for the eBooks we own, but it does not search the entire full text content
Finding articles
- Start with Literature Online (LION)
- Search Omni for articles on your topic. In the search facets under "Modify your search", limit to "Articles"
- There are also databases for every subject area; they list articles on topics within these areas.
- The following databases are useful for critical works on fiction:
- ATLA Religion Database (for the faith perspective)
- MLA International Bibliography
- Canadian content
Finding book review
Sacred texts
- Bible - biblehub.com/
- Quran - quran.com/
- Vedas and Upanishads - www.sacred-texts.com/hin/
- Tanakh - www.sefaria.org/texts/Tanakh
- Famous quotations