LibGuides: ENGL BC 3998 Words and Pictures: Intersection of Literary and Visual Art: Welcome

Welcome: About this Guide

About this Guide

Welcome! This Research Guide is here to support you as you work through your Senior Seminar project.

I would love for you to Book Research Consultations with me so we can talk one-on-one.

The guide highlights some specific resources available to you through Columbia University Libraries and more including:

General and subject specific research databases for locating scholarly journal articles (secondary resources)
Databases for locating archival material and local archives that you can visit (primary resources)
Some hints about thinking creatively and strategically about the research process.
Resources for citing your sources

Oxford English dictionary online (OED)
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from Dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED started life more than 150 years ago. Updates revise and extend the OED at regular intervals.
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas. There are at least 50 specific topical bibliographies in each subject area. Each of these features an introduction to the topic. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.