ENG 110: World Literature in English
General Information
Country Information
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
- Great source for an overview of your country's history.
- Use the eTable of Contents to choose a region and then your country.
CIA World Factbook
- Contains introductory information about countries
- Select your country from the dropdown menu.
Europa World Year Book Online
- Provides basic facts similar to the CIA's source, but also includes narrative discussions of each country's economy and history.
- Provides Comparative Statistics tool to compare countries in various areas.
- Covers all countries of the world.
- Also in print: Location: ref JN 1 .E85 2006.
Databases
Academic Search Premier
- Use to find articles from magazines and journals
- Offers full text for over 1,200 academic journals on all subjects.
- Try a search like: imperialism and Sierra Leone
Proquest
Research Library
- Use to find articles in magazines and journals
- Offers full text for over 1,700 academic, social sciences,
humanities, general science, and history journals.
Historical Abstracts
- History database covering all the world except the US and Canada
- Use this if you can't find articles in the other two databases.
- Search for books in The University Libraries.
- Use the search connector "and" to do a keyword search for more than one term.
Searching the Web
Guidelines for Evaluating
Web Resources
Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality
material. From our online tutorial Finding It!
Citing Your Sources
MLA Style
- UNCG's quick guide to citing books, articles and websites
- To cite an article in a database, look at the section entitled Electronic Resources
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