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TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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1. |
Introduction |
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2. |
Liaison Officer Details |
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Subscribed Databases |
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4. |
Subscribed E-Journals |
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5. |
E-Books |
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6. |
Recommended Websites |
PART 1 : Introduction
Literature is not a new subject in this world but the
definitions of the word literature tend to be circular and according to The
Concise Oxford Dictionary, it is about “writings whose value lies in the
beauty of form or emotional effect.” Other than that, Walter Pater; the
nineteenth-century critic described literature as “the matter of imaginative or
artistic literature” as a “transcript, not of mere fact, but of fact in its
infinitely varied forms.” But such definitions really assume that the reader
already knows what literature is. And indeed its central meaning, at least, is
clear enough. Deriving from the Latin littera, “a letter of the
alphabet,” literature is first and foremost mankind’s entire body of writing;
after that it is the body of writing belonging to a given language or people;
then it is individual pieces of writing.[1]
Part 2 : Liaison Officer Details
I’m Rosnani Binti Ahmad is the liaison officer from
Perpustakaan Hamzah Sendut Library which responsible for the subject of
literature focused to School of Humanities, USM. If there is any suggestion or
enquiries for this Guide to Online Resources, please email me at rosnaniahmad@usm.my or contact 04-6532583.
PART 3 :
Subscribed Databases
(Accessible via USM Library website http://lib.usm.my/equip-usm/custom/dbusm.jsp)
3.1 BRILL ONLINE
http://www.brillonline.nl/subscriber/uid=4276/
Provides over 250,000 bibliographical references to scholarly publications
in linguistics and is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field.
3.2 Britannica
Online
This is powerful resource to search or browse for information in
encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites.
3.3 OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE: PREMIUM
COLLECTION
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html
Online access to the world's most trusted reference collection. It
contains hundreds of English Dictionaries & Reference, Bilingual Dictionaries, Subject
Reference, Encyclopedia and
others.
3.4 SAGE eReference
http://www.sage-ereference.com/
Highly
recommended for academic and public libraries with its intuitive interface that
promotes the exploration of exceptional content and it is also an excellent
choice for increasing access to reference content.
3.5 BRITANNICA ONLINE ACADEMIC EDITION
The award-winning Britannica Online delivers fast and easy access to
high quality, comprehensive information. The rich combination of Encyclopedia
Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazine
and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable
sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough research-all
from one database.
3.6 CAMBRIDGE
SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACTS
Provides
seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the
world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of
serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social
science to science, technology, and medicine.
3.7 EBSCOhost
Academic Source
Premier
Academic Source Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700
publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred
journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000
titles. This database is updated on a daily basis
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text is the
world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The
database features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a
19,600+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert
lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 708
journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more
than 780 books and monographs, and full text for 9,333 conference papers.
3.8 EMERALD
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/menuNavigation
Provide access to unique groups of high quality peer-reviewed journals
in specific management disciplines, ensuring the information is directly
relevant to your interest area.
3.9 GALE DATABASES
http://find.galegroup.com/gps/dispBasicSearch.do?prodId=IPS&userGroupName=myusm
Search for any term and find articles from thousands of magazines,
journals and books or video and podcast content from numerous outfits.
3.10 SPRINGERLINK
http://www.springerlink.com/home/main.mpx
SpringerLink is one of the world's leading interactive
databases for high-quality STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection. SpringerLink is a powerful
central access point for researchers and scientists.
3.11 INDEX TO THESES
http://www.theses.com/
A comprehensive listing
of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great
Britain and Ireland since 1716.
3.12 INFORMAWORLD
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/home~db=all
Explore
a world of specialist information for the academic professional and business
communities.
3.13 INGENTACONNECT
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content
IngentaConnect is a website that hosts scholarly books and journals from
a range of different publishers. Millions of articles, chapters and
reports are available for you to search across, and access to full text is
available by pay-per-view or by subscription to individual publications.
3.14 ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE
ISI Web of Knowledge is today‘s premier
research platform, helping you to quickly find, analyze, and share information
in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Designed for both
novice and professional researchers, its streamlined search process makes it
easy for you to quickly find and analyze past and present available research in
your field.
3.15 PROQUEST
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb/
Provides access to more than 100 full-text and bibliographic databases
published by CSA and its publishing partners.
3.16 SCIENCEDIRECT
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering
journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals
and more than 11,000 books. There are currently more than 9.5 million articles/chapters,
a content base that is growing at a rate of almost 0.5 million additions per
year.
PART 4 :
Subscribed E-Journals
(Accessible via USM Library website http://lib.usm.my/equip-usm/custom/subsjournals.jsp)
4.1 Indonesia and the
Malay world
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713426698~db=all
4.2 Indonesia
http://cip.cornell.edu/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&page=past&handle=seap.indo
4.3 Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t794297829~db=all
A-Z e-Journals
(Accessible via USM Library http://atoz.ebsco.com/titles.asp?Id=3777&uc=Admin&sid=10425351&TabID=2&jump=true)
To get more specific e-journals for the subject of
literature, users are encouraged to use the term language and literature as the
subject for searching process.
PART 5 : E-Books
(Accessible via USM Library website www.lib.usm.my)
5.1 Cambridge University Press
http://usm.cambridge.patron.eb20.com/
Cambridge University Press publishes the finest academic and
educational writing from around the world
5.2 Columbia University Press eBooks
http://www.igpublish.com/columbia-ebooks/Main.nsp
There are several titles in this publication.
5.3 e-brary
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/unisains/home.action
A collection of
more than 30,000 titles of e-books that USM Library subscribes and its subjects
include social science and humanities.
5.4 Springer
e-books
http://www.springerlink.com/home/main.mpx
Provides access to your
library's eContent collection. eContent is the digital version of books,
journals, and database content. You can access your library's eContent 24 hours
a days, seven days a week.
NetLibrary provides access to your library’s eContent collection.
eContent is the digital version of books, journals, and database content. You
can access your library’s eContent 24 hours a days, seven days a week.
NetLibrary lets you access your affiliated
library's eContent
collection, which can include eBooks, eJournals, and eAudiobooks.
PART 6 :
Recommended Websites
6.1 Dewan
Bahasa dan Pustaka
http://dbp.gov.my/
This is the
homepage of the Institute of Language and Literature with contents including
Galeri Sastera, Galeri Bahasa, Galeri Penulis, etc.
6.2 E-sasterawan
A special website designed as a platform for personal
writings. Established since 2005.
6.3 Pantun
Brought to you by eSastera.com
in collaboration with poesysite.com.
Supported by the Institute of Language
and Literature (DBP),
Malaysia
6.4 Melayu Online
http://melayuonline.com/ind/bookreview/read/49/kritikan-sastera-melayu-moden
Contain many
issues related to literature including poetry, book review etc.
6.5 Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/
A "selection
of useful places on the net on writers and poets, on libraries, publishers and
booksellers, both of new and second hand/antiquarian books." Topics also
include Sources for real and electronic texts, Literature from many countries,
Literature & the Other Arts, Literary journals, Some prominent periodicals
and Great writers and poets.
6.6 BUBL LINK: 800 Literature and rhetoric
http://link.bubl.ac.uk/literature/
Covers general
Literature links as well as specific literatures: English, American, Germanic,
Hellenic, other European literatures. Also has a section on literatures of
other languages.
6.7 Literature
(Humanities)
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Humanities/Literature.html
Contains
numerous links to authors, hypertext fiction, poetry, writing, academic
organizations, articles, collections, directories and periodicals.
6.8 Librarians' Index to the Internet: Literature and Books
http://lii.org/search/file/literature
Contains annotated links to
Internet resources for Literature categorized under Books (best of...),
Directories, Databases and Specific resources. Links to other categories
(Awards, Book reviews, Genres, Full-text, Poetry, Writing) may be reached from
the main index.
6.9 A Web of On-line
Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Linked to more than 800 dictionaries in 160
different languages. Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary, 10th
Ed.
6.10 Lontar Organization
http://www.lontar.org/
This website
contains the programs, publications, and activities of the Lontar Foundation,
"a private not for profit organization established in 1987 for the purpose
of promoting appreciation of Indonesian literature and culture ..."
6.11 ECLAT: The Essential Comparative Literature and Theory Site
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/
An index of well
chosen sites for those interested in comparative literature. Contents include
Comparative Literature at Penn, Other Web Sites of a Literary or Cultural
Studies Bent, Journals, News & the Profession, Comparative Literature
Programs Elsewhere on the Web, Electronic Library Sites, Theory Sites & Resources
on the Web, Humanities Computing and Electronic Text Archives.