Using Catalogs: Use the WSU
online
catalog to find location and availability of books and other media
in Stewart Library. Most of the books on Middle Eastern literarture
and literary criticism are located
on level two of
the library in the General Collection under the call numbers
PJ
and
PK. Books on Middle Eastern history are found under
DS and books on Islam are found under the call number
BP.
Use WorldCat
to find books in other libraries, see Interlibrary loan below. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
Keywords & subject
headings: Use the term "criticism"
or "interpretation" and the
name of an author or title
in the catalog to find books analyzing specific author's works.
For more general works, try: literature
and the name of a language: Persian literature,
Arabic, literature, Turkish literature, etc.
For women writers, add the term: women.
Electronic Books:
- The Country Studies
- This series, published by Library of Congress, presents
a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social,
economic, political, and national security systems and institutions
of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships
of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
Not every country is represented and dates of publication vary.
- NetLibrary
- A searchable collection of electronic books on all subjects.
From Bookstores:
Order books online from Amazon Books,
Barnes and Noble or Yahoo Books
Page. Also use Books
in Print sources as needed.
Interlibrary Loan:
If we do not own a particular book or article you need, we will
borrow it for you from another library through Interlibrary
Loan.
Reference resources include encyclopedias, dictionaries and
other materials you use to "refer" to. Use these resources
for background information on a topic.
For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
ONLINE REFERENCE RESOURCES
- Literature
Resource Center (includes Contemporary Authors,
Dictionary of Literary Biography and other materials)
- Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies,
bibliographies and critical analysis of over 90,000 authors from
every age and literary discipline. Search by Author Name, Title,
Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes. A great place to
start any literature research project or paper.
- Biography
Reference Bank - More than 46,000 full-text profiles
of authors, artists, prizewinners, politicians, world leaders,
musicians and more. Covers the Ancient World to the present.
- CIA
World Factbook
- Department
of State Background Notes: Middle East and North Africa
PRINT REFERENCE RESOURCES
- The Atlas of the Arab World - REF G1785.F3 1991
- The Biographical Dictionary of the Middle East
- REF DS62.4.B56 1991
- Culturegrams - REF Table 9A GT150.C85. Handy summary
of practical information for the traveler; touches on the social
customs and the economic, political and historical characteristics
of the country useful for the visitor to know.
- Dictionary of the Middle East - REF DS43.H57
1996
- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East - REF
DS43.E53 1996
- Encyclopedia of the Third World - REF HC59.7.K87. Provides
a compact, balanced and objective description of the dominant
political, economic, and social systems of 122 countries of the
world.
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures - REF Table 9A GN307.E53
1991. Volumes cover 1,500 cultures from around the world. Each
entry includes information on cultural relations, kinship, marriage
and family, religion, and a bibliography.
- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East - REF DS43.E53
1996
- The Middle East - REF DS63.1.M484 2000
- New Immigrant Literatures in the United States - REF
PS153.M56N475 1996
FINDING
BOOK REVIEWS:
For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login. There are
several good sources for book reviews they include:
ARTICLE DATABASES
To find articles on your
topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical
indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related
journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes. Most
indexes are available from off campus.
- MLA
Bibliography - MLA International Bibliography is
usually the best index for researching literature and literary
criticism topics. MLA provides article reference for articles
in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore back to 1963.
Updated ten times per year.
- Arts
& Humanities Search - Citations from many of
the world's leading arts and humanities journals. 1980 - present,
updates weekly.
- Academic
Search Premier - Provides some full text articles
in over a thousand magazines and journals
-
Lexis/Nexis Academic
- Full-text coverage of many newspapers from across the US and
around the world.
- Contemporary
Women's Issues - Contemporary women's issues on health
and human rights, selected full-text. 1992 - present, updates
every two weeks.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch - Full text. Articles
from minority and ethnic newspapers, magazines, and journals.
1960-Present.
- GenderWatch
- Full text Newspaper, magazine, and journal articles addressing
the impact of gender in society. 1990-Present (with selected articles
from the 1970's and 1980's)
- Social
Science Databases (EbscoHost) - Cross-database searching
for several databases, selected full text.
NEWSPAPERS
BROWSING CURRENT PERIODICALS
Current magazines and
journals can be browsed in the Current Periodicals Area, on the
Main level. Bound volumes of older issues are found upstairs in
the periodicals stacks.
- International Journal of Middle East Studies. DS1.I55
- The Middle East Journal. DS1.M627
- Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. DS1.M533
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
The library subscribes
to many electronic journals in literature including:
Want to know what journals
we have? Check our Ejournals
Database.
Here are
some WWW sites to get you started. Most of these will take you to
other links, so explore!
Each country
guide provides links to social, business and economic data on that
country
LITERATURE SITES
CULTURAL SITES