Welcome!

Welcome to the library research page accompanying your Freshman seminar on Science Fiction and Politics! Here you will find numerous resources--both print and electronic--that can help you in your research. If you have trouble navigating these sites, or would like one-on-one consultations, please feel free to contact me, Chris Palazzolo (cpalazz@emory.edu), your political science and international documents liaison at Woodruff Library.

**It is highly recommended that you also visit the Political Theory resource page. As science fiction comments on many political ideas and concepts, such as utopianism/dystopianism and corporatism, you may wish to consult print and electronic resources in this area.**

To find materials located at any of Emory's libraries, search EUCLID, Emory's online library catalog.

The contents of journals are NOT searchable in EUCLID. Read Finding a Journal Article in the Woodruff Library, for further guidance.

USING EUCLID TO LOCATE RESOURCES

• To find books, journal holdings, music, videos or other materials located at any of the Emory libraries, search EUCLID. You can search EUCLID by keywords or phrases, author, title or periodical title. For better search results, try using Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT).
• Do not use EUCLID to find individual periodical articles. Use the databases listed in Locating Articles to find indexes for journal articles.
• You can search EUCLID in many different manners and across/within many different fields.  You may "search everything" by keyword to broaden your search to include all fields and obtain some initial results. Be sure to always click on the "full record" of a particularly interesting item and look at (and/or click on) the subject headings to further your search or make it more precise.

General Political Science Reference

• Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science
  Reference JA61 .B43 1999
  Divided into two sections: Dictionary Entries, an alphabetically arranged listing of concepts and terms with brief additional reading sources included with most entries, and Biographical Sketches: A Political Science Who's Who, which are brief, alphabetically arranged entries.
• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
  Reference JA61 .C665 1996
  Alphabetical listing of terms, concepts, individuals, and organizations.
• Dictionary of Modern Politics, David Robertson
  Reference JA61 .R63 2002
  Newest edition is 2003. Provides brief encyclopedic entries on various political terms. Allows for cross-referencing.
• Dictionary of World Politics
  D419 .K87 2002
• Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Garrett Ward Sheldon, ed.
  Reference JA61. E52 2001
  Brief narratives of important and influential movements, terms, and figures in political thought. Also provides a selection of "further readings" along with each entry.
• World Conflicts: A Comprehensive Guide to World Strife since 1945
  Reference D842.B69
  Broken down by continent and then by country. Entries are followed by suggestions for further reading. Goes up to about 1997-1998.
• World at Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook
  Reference JZ1242.W67 2002
  Narratives issues affecting the international system. Includes very useful reference and bibliography.

Science Fiction Literature Guides and Criticism

• Survey of Science Fiction Literature (five volumes)
  Reference PN3448.S45S88
  Organized by work, provides brief analysis and review of major science fiction works. Also provides references for further sources of criticism.
• Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
  Reference PN3433.5.B87
• Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers
  Reference PR9192.6.F27 C36
  Organized by author. Detailed reviews and surveys of authors' works.
• Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early 19th Century to the Present Day
  Reference PS374.S35 S36 1999
• Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
  Reference PN3433.4 E53
• New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
  Reference PN3443.4 N48 1988
• Readers' Guide to Twentieth-Century Science Fiction
  Reference PN3433.4 R44
• Anatomy of Wonder: Critical Guide to Science Fiction
  Reference Z5917.S36 S297
• Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers
  Reference PS374.S35 T89
• Contemporary Science Fiction Authors
Reference Z1231.F4 R43

General Literary Criticism Reference

• Contemporary Authors (1962 to present)
  Reference PN771 .C6
  Provides biographical sketches of modern authors. The online version, which also links user to the Dictionary of Literary Biography and much more, is available through Literature Resource Center.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography (1978 to present)
  Reference Classified with subject of each volume
  Long articles prepared by scholars. Each volume is catalogued separately. You may also locate all volumes in the set by looking up the series title in EUCLID (the online catalog). An online version, including about 4000 essays from the DLB, along with many other sources is available through Literature Resource Center.
• Index to the Wilson Author Series (1991)
  Reference Desk PN451 .I5 1991
  Indexes Wilson author biographical sources including Twentieth Century Authors (Reference PN771 .K85), World Authors, 1950-1990 (Reference Desk PN451 .W6), American Authors, 1600-1900 (Reference PS21 .K8), British Authors Before 1800 (Reference PR105 .K9), British Authors of the Nineteenth Century (Reference PR451 .K8), European Authors, 1100-1900 (Reference PN451 .K8).
• World Authors, 1900-1950 (1996)
  Reference PN451 .W674 1996
  Revised edition of Twentieth Century Authors and its supplement (see above).

General Literary Guides and Bibliographies

• Contemporary Literary Criticism
  1973 to present
  Paper copies shelved in Reference PN771 .C65 provide excerpts from contemporary literary criticism articles. Literature Resource Center, available online, includes selections from the printed set and many other critical and biographical sources.
• Short Story Criticism (1988 to present)
  Reference PN3373 .S386
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1978 to present)
  Reference PN771 .T84
• World Literature Criticism (1992 to present)
  Reference PN52 .W67 1992
• Magill Index to Critical Surveys (1994)
  Reference Desk PN524 .M34 1994
• Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism (1979)
  Reference Desk Z6511 .M25
  One of several bibliographies by Reference Desk for fiction criticism.

Hints for Finding Articles

• Many databases are now powered by SFX technology.
When you search various library databases, , you’ll often see the button Clicking on the button will bring up a menu of Emory’s holdings for the journal. The button in databases does not guarantee we own either the print or on-line versions of the journal article.

• When looking up journal titles in EUCLID, use the Browse - Periodical Title option; or, if you know the exact title, use the Exact--Periodical Title option.

• Journals, newspapers, and magazines for the current year are kept in the Matheson Reading Room on the third floor of the Candler Building (follow the bridge from the General Libraries to reach the Reading Room).

• Some periodicals may be stored on microfilm or microfiche and are located on the first floor of the General Libraries, where there are special copiers that can reproduce articles found in these formats.

Recommended Interdisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Premier (at EBSCOhost)
  Academic Search Premier provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,800, as well as full text for over 3,200 scholarly journals and general magazines.
• Research Library (ProQuest)
  Includes both scholarly journals and general magazines. Provides citations and abstracts for these periodicals from 1986 to the present. Also includes the full text for many of these from 1991 to the present. Not limited to any one field.
• LexisNexis
  Provides full-text access to over 13,000 news, business and legal sources.
• Philosopher's Index (1967- )
  The preeminent indexing and abstracting tool for philosophy. Indexes all major philosophy journals in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian as well as selected journals in other languages and related disciplines. Since 1980, also includes coverage of books in English.

Although this course is primarily political in nature, you will find many resources in literary criticism databases.

Literary Criticism Databases

• JSTOR
  Provides the full-text of the backfiles of 11 core language and literature journals as well as numerous political science titles. Covers the complete backfile of each journal up to within the last few years. Articles are searchable by author, title and the fulltext of each article. JSTOR is also a great resource for social science journals.
• Literature Resource Center
  Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes articles from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and much more.
• Literature Collections Online
  This is a listing of Literature Collections Online that appears in the Database Locator.
• MLA International Bibliography
  Indexes critical writing on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Covers articles published between 1963 and the present. Note that a simple search on "science fiction" and "politics" uncovers almost 100 results.

General Social Science and Political Science Databases

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1967-present)
  Supplies up-to-date bibliographic information and research within thepolitical science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
• PAIS International (1915-present)
  Includes bibliographic records from the literature of public policy, social policy and the social sciences. You can also search the Worldwide Political Science Abstracts database above at the same time. Just click on "Search Databases"
• Social Science Abstracts (1983-present)
  Indexes core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations.

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• A great resource here on campus is Emory's Writing Center, whose members/participants help to edit and provide other guidance for writing assignments across the disciplines
• Modern Language Association Web Site
  This site is primarily helpful for citing electronic sources in MLA Style.
• Purdue University Online Writing Lab - MLA Documentation Style Guide

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed.
REFERENCE DESK LB 2369 .G53 2003 Style guides are located in the low shelves next to the SECOND FLOOR REFERENCE DESK of the Woodruff Library and near the reference desk in the Matheson Reading Room in the Candler Building. Students may ask a reference librarian for help with finding style guides.

• Purdue University Online Writing Center: Guide to Research and Documenting Sources
• Cornell University: Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
• The library workshop, Internet Critical Evaluation Skills, can help students identify reputable Web sites.