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Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
- "Humanities Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995."
- An index to the content of journals books proceedings and other resources in the disciplines of languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
- Find any or all journals available to the Rider Community.
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources
Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945
- Call Number: PS153.N5 R65 1990
African American Writers
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- Reference Room -- Call Number: PS153.N5 A344 2001
Black Writers
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: E185.96.B545
Contemporary Authors
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- "Contemporary Authors helps researchers discover biographic details on more than 110,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, journalists, songwriters, and scriptwriters. Current writers as well as the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century, and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States are featured in this award-winning refrence resource."
- Moore Library-Ref. Z1010 .C63
Contemporay Black Biography
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: E185.96.C66
Dictionary of Literary Biography
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Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PS153.N5 R65 1990
Hispanic Writers: a selection of sketches from Contemporary authors
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PQ7081.3 .H58 1999
Modern American Women Writers
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PS151 .M54 1991
Criticism
Black Literature Criticism
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- Moore Library- Stacks Call Number: PS153.N5 B556 1992
Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism
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- Moore Library- Stacks Call Number: PN86 .P7
Contemporary Literary Criticism
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PN771 .C59
Drama Criticism
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PN 1707 .C65
Literature Criticism from 1400-1800
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PN86 .L56
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PN761 .N5
Poetry Criticism
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PN1010 .P499
Shakespearean Criticism
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PR2965 .S43
Short Story Criticism
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PN3373 .S56
Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: PN771 .G27
Dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary
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- Moore Library- Stacks Call Number: PE1625 .N53 1933 Available on CD-ROM workstation in Reference.
Encyclopedias
Black Women in America
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- Moore Library-Reference Room Call Number: E185.86 .B542 2005
Guides to Common Readings and Invited Authors/Presentors
Fall 2008
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites
Internet Directory
- "A Literary Index provides both an overview and a review of the more significan collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature." This site lists literatue indexes and archives of electronic texts, sites for literary research, teaching resources, a section about books and publishing, and links to resources in composition, rhetoric and writing.
Online Texts
Columbia University Bartleby Library
Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Collections
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Available in Full Text Authentication Required
- JSTOR is a collection of journals from the the fields of arts, sciences, business, education, and social sciences. The archive begins with the first issue of most of these journals and continues to within the past three to five years.
Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Trade & Professional Associations
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Style Manuals
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format
Library Information
Moore Library
- Moore Library is a comprehensive general library with heavy emphasis on business, education, language and literature, communication and science. A collection of video and DVD formats and the Riderana/University Archives provide special support. Located on Rider's Lawrenceville campus, the building is named for Franklin F. Moore.
Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville New Jersey 08648
Telephone: 609-896-5115
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