French Undergraduates

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French Undergraduates

• Researching Your Assessed Essay
• (Tutorial 2 Searching in the MLA International
  Bibliography)

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In this Tutorial you will be shown how to

• Find your way to a menu of relevant data-bases on
  the Library web pages
• Conduct some searches on MLA
• Distinguish between bibliographic and full-text
  results
• Operate an e-link (WebBridge) between a
  bibliographic record and a full-text source

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Pitching my search correctly

• Am I using a few general terms so that I am
  including too much?
• Am I using too many narrow terms so that I am
  excluding some useful results?
• Am I remembering to juxtapose helpful variant
  terms to cover my topic (ie fiction or novel,
  women or feminine)?

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From the Resources page, select from the Subjects
menu
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Click here for a menu of vital databases
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You can now open the MLA
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To get the best from MLA, go to Advanced Search
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Quite a choice! A good general purpose default is
Keyword
Note Author means author of a document, not a
literary writer
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Your topic is

• You are looking for some material on Epistolary
  aspects of Joachim Du Bellays
• Les Regrets

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Limit the search to basic keywords
You can add/subtract as many rows as you want
You have set these defaults
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Thanks to MLAs indexing, you are also finding
epistolaire
You can open a full-text link here (to JSTOR)
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Scroll down to read
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Here you are!
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Your next search topic

• You now want some material on The politics of
  friendship in French sixteenth century literature

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This time you need not only keywords but to
specify the literature and the period
Note how MLA expresses the 16C century this
will catch all the records
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Click on Title to see the full record
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Note the descriptors which increase the power of
your search
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Now click on WebBridge to see what links are
available
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No full-text this time, but you can open
Warwicks catalogue
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WebBridge is over-scrupulous, but you can see
Warwick holds this title
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In this case we dont have the 1989 volume. You
might be able to use Document Supply (but only
with your supervisors permission
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To find out more about Document Supply, click here
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Now open this screen
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You can download a form but note the permission
needed
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So remember the strategy for finding article
texts

• First investigate whether a full-text link is
  available (via WebBridge or by searching our
  catalogue)
• If not, check if Warwick holds a print set
• If not, find out whether your tutor will give you
  permission to use Document Supply (a free service
  to you)_

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You next search is for

• French twentieth-century women writers and the
  role of memory

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Here are your key terms
Note that the term role has been omitted as not
distinctive enough remember to drop all
unnecessary words or phrases
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MLA tells you the type of records retrieved
15 records found scroll on down
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Tick in the boxes
You want to save 2 records for your bibliography
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or go for output right away
You can add to a list here continue searching
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Note what the records are about select a biblio
style from a menu
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You can now email or save
To check which records you have, click here
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Make sure the records format have the information
in them that you want
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Back on the French Library page there are many
more products you might like to scan
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The Bibliotheque Nationale can be opened here
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Useful links here
News of current research here
A selection of e-texts
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If you are still a bit unsure

• Go through the Tutorial once more
• Look carefully at how searches are set out on
  the screen
• Practise some live searches of your own
• Ask for further help
• Contact peter.larkin_at_warwick.ac.uk
• or Lindsay.Green_at_warwick.ac.uk

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