Looking for (brief) biographical information in regards to film & literature

If you are searching for articles that contain biographical information:

• For literature try the Literature Resource Center(log on with netID required)
• For popular culture & film try Pop Culture Universe.(log on with netID required)
• A useful public site to search is AllMovie .
  For the purposes of citation of a web document "if there is no author, begin the reference with the document title." Click here for the MLA handout.
• You can also try searching IMDB, but biographical entries are not always cited, so be careful in using this source. This site is more useful for performance history than biographical information.

If you are searching for books that contain biographical information:

• You can search our catalog for books. Type the name of the person you are looking for information on as one of your search terms, and add biography or autobiography as another search term

• If you have time for Interlibrary Loan you can also use these search terms in Google Books.

Click here to go to the English Guide
Click here to go to the Film Guide
If you have any questions, please contact me or comment on this post.

How to find a Journal that covers [insert specific topic in field of literature studies here]

1. Go to the MLA International Bibliography which you can find on the English Subject Guide
2. Watch the video below, try what it says.
   
3. If you are having any issues, contact me.
   

These are not directions on finding the most relevant articles in this database, these are directions on how to use MLA International Bibliography to find out what journals are covering specific topics, and how to find those journals at UT Arlington Library.


Curious abut how to use the Thesaurus, MLA Directory of Periodicals, or Names as Subjects links near the top of MLA International Bibliography? Watch this video!

P.S. Click on the Maximize button to be able to see the full screen!!!

WordCat (Specifically, the FirstSearch version, and how to use it to find publisher, translation, etc. information)

Ok, first you want to go to FirstSearch WorldCat. There are also links to it on the English and Textual Histories guides.

WorldCat is a union catalog - what that means is that not only does it have the records from UTArlington library, it also has the records from many, many other public and academic libraries worldwide (over 32 million records).

FirstSearch refers to the specific interface. There are other ways to access WorldCat (for example there is a free public version) but the directions I am going to give apply specifically to the FirstSearch interface.


Link to video
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!