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PART |
TABLE
OF CONTENTS |
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1. |
Introduction
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2. |
Liaison
Officer Details |
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3. |
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@notes.usm.my or contact 04-6532592.
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.