| Reference Works |
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Reference books can be the
best place to start your research.
Use reference works to:
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Get an overview or background information on a topic
- Get ideas for focusing your
own research
- Find bibliographies of more in-depth sources
- Find quick facts and statistics
- Find biographical information
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Selected Reference Works for
"The Monsters We Make" |
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Title/Description |
Call # |
| Paranormal |
BF1407
- BF 1566 |
| Encyclopedia of Ghosts
and Spirits |
BF 1461.G85 1992 |
| Encyclopedia of
Occultism and Parapsychology |
BF 1407.E52 1996 |
| Encyclopedia of Witches
and Witchcraft, 2nd edition |
Ref BF 1566.G85 1999 |
| Man, Myth,
and Magic (21 volume set, illustrated) |
Ref BF 1407.M34 1995 |
| Penguin Encyclopedia of
Horror and the Supernatural |
BF 1407.P46 1986 |
| Mythology |
BL303 -
BL2428 |
| Encyclopedia of
Greco-Roman Mythology |
BL 715.D56 1998 |
| Guide to the Gods |
BL 473.L43 1992 |
| Mythical and fabulous
creatures: a source book and research guide |
Ref GR 825.M87 1987 |
| Dictionary of Ancient
Near Eastern Mythology |
BL 1060.L44 1991 and BL1060.L44 electonic 1998 |
| Cult |
BL 2525
area |
| Encyclopedia of Cults,
Sects, and the New Religions |
Ref BL 2525.L49 1998 |
| Encyclopedia Handbook of
Cults in America |
BL 2525.M45 1992 |
| Film |
PN 1993
- PN 2012 |
| Encyclopedia of Science
Fiction Movies |
PN 1995.9.S26H38 2001 |
| The Great Science
Fiction Pictures (old movies1977 and before) |
PN 1995.9.S26P37 |
| The Science Fiction
Image |
PN 1995.9.S26W75 |
| Science Fiction and
Mystery |
PN
3433.4 - PN 3448 |
| Encyclopedia of Science
Fiction |
PN 3433.4.H6 1978 |
| Encyclopedia of Science
Fiction |
PN 3433.4.E53 1995 |
| Horror: A Connoisseur's
Guide to Literature and Film |
PN 3435.W6 1989 |
| Reference Guide to
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror |
PN 3433.5.B87
1992 |
| Monsters |
P96
area |
| The Encyclopedia of
Monsters |
Ref P96.M6R68 1989 |
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| Books |
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Books may contain a broad overview
of a topic or an in-depth exploration of a topic. Books range from popular to scholarly and as with all sources, you should
be aware of the author's credentials.
Keep in Mind:
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Books on a broad topic may contain chapters or essays on your topic. Often these are not indicated by the title. When searching, think both broadly and narrowly.
- The bibliography in a book can be a great place to find additional sources.
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How To Find Books |
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Books located at the UI Library, the UI Law
Library, NIC (Coeur d'Alene), and LCSC (Lewiston) can be found by
searching the Library Catalog. For help with searching the
catalog, see the Searching
for Books Library Guide.
For this assignment a subject search
can work as well as a keyword search. Sometimes using
subject headings that are part of a classification system can help you
retrieve more resources. At the U of I, our library uses the Library of
Congress (LC) classification scheme. Examples of some LC subject headings
that might pertain to your course include:
Batman
(Fictitious character) Comic books, strips, etc.
Batman
(Fictitious character) in mass media History
Beowulf
Bibliography
Beowulf
Manuscripts
Comic books,
strips, etc. United States History and criticism
Concentration
camps Personal narratives
Holocaust,
denial
Holocaust,
Jewish (1939-1945)
Horror films
United States History and criticism
Horror in
art
Horror tales
Reference books Bibliography
Horror tales
History and criticism Bibliography
Fantasy
fiction History and criticism Bibliography
Fantasy
fiction Reference books Bibliography
Fantasy in
art
Fantasy in
mass media
Fantasy
literature
Grotesque in
art
Monsters
Drama
Monsters
Encyclopedias
Monsters in
art
Monsters in
literature Bibliography
Monsters in
mass media Dictionaries
Monsters in
motion pictures
Monsters
Mythology Poetry
Monsters
Religious aspects Christianity
Monstrosities
Myth in
literature
Occultism
United States Bibliography
Popular
culture Dictionaries
Science
fiction Reference books Bibliography
Science
fiction History and criticism Bibliography
Science
fiction Dictionaries
Science
fiction films
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Selected Books (specific to
the Course Readings) for The
Monsters We Make- U of I
Library- Main Stacks- Third Floor |
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Title/Description |
Call # |
| Alcuin and Beowulf: an
eighth-century view |
PR 1585.B6 1978 |
| Androids, humanoids, and
other science fiction monsters: science and soul in science fiction
films |
PN 1995.9.S26S26 1993 |
| Arkham Asylum:living
hell (Batman comic book) |
UI Browsing
Collection |
| Art of Beowulf |
PR 1585.B68 1959a |
| Batman: child of dreams
(Batman comic book) |
UI Browsing
Collection |
| Batman (Comic strip) |
PN 6727.M595B34 1996 |
| Batman: the complete
history |
PN 6728.B36D364 2004 |
| The Many Lives of the
Batman: critical approaches to a superhero |
PN 6725.M36 1991 (LCSC) |
| Batman unmasked:
analysing a cultural icon |
P 96.B37B76 2001 |
| Beowulf: a new verse
translation |
PE 1583.H43 2000 |
| Beowulf and the seventh
century: language and content |
PR 1585.G45 1971 |
| Beowulf handbook |
PR 1585.B384 1997 |
| Beowulf scholarship: an
annotated bibliography |
PR 1585.S4 1980 |
| Between monsters,
goddesses, and cyborgs: feminist confrontations with science,
medicine, and cyberspace |
Q 158.5B48 1996 |
| Blade Runner (DVD) |
DVD PN 1997.B562 1999 |
| Blade Runner (book) |
PS 3554.I3B52 1982 |
| Critical companion to
Beowulf |
PR 1585.O73 2003 |
| Critical essays on Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley |
PR 5398.C75 1998 |
| Cutting edge: art horror
and the horrific avant-garde |
PN 1995.9.E96H38 2000 |
| (The) Devil himself:
villainy in detective fiction and film |
PR 830.D4D45 2002 |
| Diary of a film (La
belle et la bete): Beauty and the Beast |
PN 1993.5.F7C63 1950 |
| Dictionary of Asian
Mythology |
BL 1005.L46 2001 |
| Dracula / Frankenstein,
or the modern Prometheus |
PR 1309.V36 1987 |
| Endurance of
Frankenstein: essays on Mary Shelley's novel |
PR 5397.F73E5 1979 |
| (The) East Face of
Helicon: west Asiatic elements in Greek poetry and myth |
PA 3010.W47 1997 |
| Frankenstein's creation:
the book, the monster, and human reality |
PR 5397.F73K4 1979 |
| Ghouls, gimmicks, and
gold: horror films and the American movie business, 1953-1968
(available soon) |
2004 |
| Gold-Hall and
earth-dragon: Beowulf as metaphor |
PR 1585.L44 1998 |
| Gorgon's gaze: German
cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror |
PN 1993.5.G3C64 1991 |
| Gothic writers: a
critical and bibliographical guide |
PN 3435.G68 2002 |
| Grendel |
PS 3557.A.712G74 1971 |
| Haunted presence: the
numinous in Gothic fiction |
PR 830.S85V37 1987 |
| Hideous progenies:
dramatizations of Frankenstein from Mary Shelley to the present |
PR 5397.F.73F67 1990 |
| Horror: a thematic
history in fiction and film |
PN 56.H6J66 2002 |
| Horror at the drive-in:
essays in popular Americana |
PN 1995.9.H6H66 2003 |
| (The) Horror Film |
PN 1995.9.H6H667 2004 |
| In Frankenstein's
shadow: myth, monstrosity, and nineteenth-century writing |
PR 5397.F73B3 1990 |
| Killing monsters: why
children need fantasy, super heroes, and make-believe violence |
P 94.5.C55J66 2002 |
| Literature of the
occult: a collection of critical essays |
PR 830.O33L57 1981 |
| Mary Shelley &
Frankenstein: the fate of androgyny |
PR 5397.F.73V44 1986 |
| Mary Shelley: her life,
her fiction, her monsters |
PR 5398.M4 1989 |
| (A) Mary Shelley
encyclopedia |
PR 5398.A2M67 2003 |
| Maus: a survivor's tale |
D 810.J4S643
1986 -or-
DS 135.P63S68 1997 |
| Maus II: a survivor's
tale |
D 804.3.S66 1991b |
| Men who made the
monsters |
PN 1995.9.H6J46 1996 |
| Monsters and grotesques
in medieval manuscripts |
ND 3339.B68 2002 |
| Monsters: evil beings,
mythical beasts, and all manner of imaginary terrors |
GR 825.G55 2003 |
| Monsters, mushroom
clouds, and the Cold War: American science fiction and the roots of
post-modernism, 1946-1964 |
PS 374.S35 B66 2001 |
| Monsters, tricksters,
and sacred cows: animal tales and American identities |
E 59.F6M66 1996 |
| Monstrous-feminine:
film, feminism, psychoanalysis |
PN 1995.9.H6C74 1993 |
| Mythology and Folklore
in South-East Asia |
GR 308.K58 1999 |
| Near Eastern Mythology |
BL 1060.G7 1985 |
| Night |
D 810.J4W513 1960 |
| Order of terror: the
concentration camp |
DD 256.5.S5813 1997 |
| Pictorial sources of
mythological and scientific illustrations in Hrabanus Maurus' De
rerum naturis |
ND 3399.H79L42 1978 |
| Pride and prodigies:
studies in the monsters of the Beowulf manuscript |
PR 1587.M65O73 1995 |
| Survivor: an anatomy of
life in the death camps |
D 810.J4D474 1976 |
| Them or us: archetypal
interpretations of fifties alien invasion films |
PN 1995.9.S26L8 1987 |
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| Articles |
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Articles are found in
periodicals. Examples of periodicals are magazines, journals, and newspapers. Scholarly (also called peer-reviewed or refereed) journals are one of the primary means of disseminating ideas in academic scholarship.
If you are unsure how to differentiate between a scholarly journal and a popular magazine,
some helpful websites are:
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How To Find Articles |
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Articles are located by searching for your topic in an article database (sometimes called an article index). First,
select an appropriate database from the Library Find Articles page. The
 next to the database title gives information about the coverage of the database. A
good place to start might be going into the "Databases by
Subject" listing and choosing "Arts and Humanities" from
the drop-down box. You could also choose "Psychology and
Psychiatry" which could cover topics such as extra sensory perception
(ESP), parapsychology, serial murder, and infanticide.
After selecting a database to search, type in search terms. Articles are generally more specific than books and may require a narrower search.
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Selected Article Databases for
The Monsters We Make
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Title/Description |
| America:
History and Life: No full-text of articles,
abstracts only. Many of the articles will need to be requested
through Interlibrary
Loan. The best database for finding regional historical
materials. Only one user at a time so try later if you can't access
the database. |
| Art Index and Art Index Retrospective:
Art Index covers the years 1984 - present and Art Index
Retrospective covers 1929-1984. Citations to articles in all aspects
of art, architecture, and design. Periodical coverage includes
English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as
well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese,
Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, this database
indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed
periodicals. |
| Communication and Mass Media Complete: This database is the merger of two databases: CommSearch (formerly
produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass
Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State
University). CommSearch offered bibliographic and keyword references
to 26 journals in communication studies, with coverage extending to
the inaugural issue of each -- some from as far back as the early
decades of the 20th century. It also included cover-to-cover indices
of NCA’s six journals (from their first editions to the present),
and abstracts from their earliest appearance in NCA journals. Mass
Media Articles Index provided citation coverage of over 40,000
articles related to mass media and published in over 60 research
journals, as well as major journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias,
and handbooks in the area of communications studies. In addition,
Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over
200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. |
Criminology:
Includes the full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE and
participating societies, some journals going back twenty years,
encompassing over 4,100 articles. It covers such subjects as
Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice,
Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and
Domestic Violence.
The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed
summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal
article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the
appropriate full-text in PDF format. |
| Humanities & Social Science Index
Retrospective: 1907-1984: Indexes
approximately 1,200 periodicals in the humanities and social
sciences with citations to more than 1,100,000 articles including
book reviews. Covers the following print indexes: International
Index (1907-1965), Social Sciences & Humanities Index
(1965-1974), Humanities Index (1974-1984), and Social Sciences Index
(1974-1983). |
| Humanities International Index : includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records, as well as citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, and original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. |
| Ingenta: Citations to articles in many subject areas, plus a
table-of-contents service. Try their Arts and Humanities
subject area. |
| JSTOR: Contains the full-text of articles. Articles are all
from peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. Must select a
"discipline" from the list before clicking the
"Search" button. |
| Project
Muse: Contains the full-text of articles.
Articles are all from peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. |
| PsycArticles: Full text journals published by the American
Psychological Association (APA) and allied organizations. The
PsycArticles database covers general psychology as well as
specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in
psychology. |
| Psychology
& Behavioral Sciences Collection: The
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides access to
nearly 550 full text publications, including more than 500
peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional
and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental
processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
In addition to the full text, citation and abstracts are provided
for all journals in the collection. All full text publications
included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO. Subset of
Academic Search Premier and overlaps our other psychology databases.
Updated daily. Access funded by the State of Idaho through LiLI
(Libraries Linking Idaho). |
| PsycINFO: Scholarly index providing citations and abstracts of
international journal articles and current chapter and book
coverage. Updated monthly. Covers 1887 to the present time. |
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| Internet
Resources |
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Information on the Internet ranges from the free web to electronic books,
journals, etc. that the library pays for. The Internet is a wonderful source
for many different types of information. It is important to remember that
anyone can publish something on the web and it is critical to evaluate your
source carefully. The library's Website
Evaluation Criteria can help you choose reliable information.
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How To
Find Internet Resources |
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For some tips on the difference between search
engines, subject directories, and the invisible web see this UC Berkeley
tutorial Types
of Search Tools. |
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Selected Internet Resources for
The Monsters We Make |
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Title/Description |
URL |
| UI Core: The Monsters We Make: Helpful
websites for your project listed on course website. |
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/monsters/ivan |
| The New York Public Library Picture Collection
Online: A collection of 30,000 digitized, public
domain images from books, magazines, and newspapers as well as
original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before
1923. It consists of images of New York City, Costume, Design, and
other subjects. |
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco |
| Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second
Generation |
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/index/resources.html |
| INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections:
(Choose Visual and Performing Arts) |
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?arts |
| The Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages |
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/ |
| The Internet Classics Archive |
http://classics.mit.edu |
| The Internet Movie Database |
http://us.imdb.com |
| WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama |
http://www.vl-theatre.com |
| University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics: External Gateway to Classics Resources |
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk |
| Library of Congress Resources for Greek and Latin
Classics |
http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/alcove9/classics.html |
| The Voice of the Shuttle |
http://vos.ucsb.edu |
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Primary
vs. Secondary Sources
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| Sometimes, you will be required to
use primary and/or secondary sources in your research. It can be difficult
to know the difference. The same source might be a primary resource for
one topic and a secondary resource for another. The website below
will help you to locate and understand the difference between the two
types of sources.
This webpage can help you learn how to critically analyze a
publication:
Citing
Sources
You will need to cite your sources properly in MLA or APA style. Here
are some links that will be helpful:
APA Style http://www.apastyle.org
UI Library's Page of Electronic Style Guides http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/instruction/elec_style_guides.htm
Plagiarism
The ease of cutting and pasting from electronic resources can lead to
putting your name on a work that is not really yours. This is both illegal
and unethical. The following websites will help you understand how to
avoid plagiarism and how to properly cite the work of others.
Duke University Libraries, Citing Sources, Documentation Guidelines for
citing sources and avoiding plagiarism: http://library.duke.edu/research/guides/citing
OWL, Purdue University Online Writing Lab, Avoiding Plagiarism: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
Preparing
An Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography gives more information than merely a list of
the authors, titles, publishers and dates of the works. For guidance on
what you can choose to include in your annotations, see the following
websites:
Cornell University, Olin & Uris Libraries, How to Prepare An
Annotated Bibliography: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm
OWL, Purdue University Online Writing Lab, Annotated
Bibliographies: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_annotatedbib.html
Last updated 12/04/06 |
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