Go to the Databases A-Z list and filter by subject to find additional choices.
Full-text scholarly journal articles and books on all aspects of literature, along with literary reference works (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, and topic overviews) and the full text of thousands of literary works from the 8th century to the present.
Scholarly articles on literature, languages, linguistics, film, folklore, and rhetoric, from all cultures.
Peer reviewed articles and book reviews of American and Canadian history, prehistory to present and searchable by historical time period.
Peer reviewed articles on women's and gender studies, drawing on gender studies, education, sociology, history, and more.
Full-text peer-reviewed articles on gender, sex, and sexuality in history, sociology, psychology, education, art, and more.
Articles from an international array of publications covering topics in art and architectural history, archaeology, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, urban design, photography, costume design, film, non-western art and more.
The library catalog is another way to search for books, ebooks, and videos. Searching the catalog will give you a more focused set of results than searching for books in SuperSearch. You can also use the subject terms to easily browse related materials.
Start with a keyword search. Once you find a book that's relevant to your topic, click on the title and look for Subjects towards the bottom of the page to help you find "more like this."
Sample keyword search for
leads to linked subject terms and more books related to this topic
Not finding enough? Search WorldCat and request books through Interlibrary Loan.
Use quotation marks " " to search words as a phrase. This will narrow your results.
"grand tour"
Use AND to combine multiple concepts in your search. This will narrow your results.
"grand tour" AND women
Use OR to find different ways your topic could be expressed. This will expand your results. These don't have to be synonyms — they can be related ideas. Group these related terms in parentheses, so the database interprets them first. The following search will find all results that contain "grand tour" along with any one of the terms in parentheses.
"grand tour" AND (women OR female OR gender OR feminism)
Use an asterisk * to find variant endings. This will expand your results. For example, femininis* will find feminism, feminist, feminists, etc.
"grand tour" AND (women OR female OR gender OR femininis*)