• for a keyword search, you must use AND, OR or NOT between the terms, or use quotes for a phrase
• to find variant endings, or all all forms of a root word, use ? - e.g. feminis? finds feminism, feminist, and feminists 
• you can limit to books in the Barnard library using the Pre-Select Limits or Post Limits options
   

• For commentaries or criticism of an author's works, do a subject search for the name of the author and look for the subdivision Criticism and interpretation
• A subject search for donne john finds a list of subject headings which includes
  Donne, John, 1572-1631--Bibliography.
  Donne, John, 1572-1631--Concordances.
  Donne, John, 1572-1631--Criticism and interpretation.
   

• Works of literature and literary criticism have Library of Congress call numbers starting with P. 
• Works about an author are shelved next to works by that author; for criticism on a particular author or work, find the correct call number for the author or work and look on the shelf near it.
   

OTHER LIBRARIES
Other ways of searching for books, if you don't find what you need in CLIO:

• BobCat for NYU - those with Columbia ID have access but no borrowing privileges
• CATNYP for New York Public Library research branches  - any resident of New York can obtain a library card
• For other catalogs use the Catalogs list on CU LibraryWeb, or search Worldcat, a composite online catalog for 24,000 libraries throughout the world
• BorrowDirect (for books) and ILL (for books or articles) - use the Request It Online page on LibraryWeb
   

• Citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles from religion journals and essay collections
   

• Cited references, bibliographic information, and abstracts, with some links to full-text articles, 1973 to the present.
• Useful for tracing which authors cited a given article or book because all references cited by each article are listed in the database
   

• An index to essays published in collections with emphasis on the humanities and social sciences, 1985 to 2002
   

Humanities Full Text

• Citations and abstracts for articles, book reviews, etc. in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history and world literature, from 1984 to the present
• To eliminate book reviews, limit Document Type to "Feature" articles
• An All-Smart Search searches in the full text as well as the Humanities Full Text record for the article
• Use a Keyword search to limit your search to records with the terms in the title, source, abstract or subject fields
   

• Citations and abstracts for articles on world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
   

• Citations for articles in interdisciplinary journals pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, published since 1859
   

• A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, with criticism and reference resources
   

MLA Bibliography

• Citations for articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, etc. on literature, linguistics, language, and folklore, published from 1963 to the present   
• Dissertations (other than Columbia) have to be ordered from the appropriate university, and may be hard to get; for journals articles only, limit Document Type to Journals  
   

JSTOR

• A full-text database of articles from over 320 scholarly journals, from the beginning of the journal but excluding the most recent 3-5 years; includes African American studies, anthropology, classical studies,  education, history, language and literature, philosophy, political science, sociology and more        
• Only the science and social science articles have abstracts, so searching in the title is the most direct search for articles in humanities journals; searching for a term in the full text of an article will often find too many irrelevant articles     
• Use + to find plurals, e.g. class+ finds class and classes, feminist+ finds feminists; no other form of keyword truncation is possible
   

• Search the full text of over 13,000 e-books
   

• Full-text articles from nearly 250 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences
   

• Full text articles and citations for articles from newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals  
• For scholarly journals, click on "Databases selected" at top, clear all databases and select "Research Library", click on "Continue" at top, and select Advanced Search 
   

• Citations for articles on women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory and criticism, published from 1972 to the present 
• To change from split screen to full screen, and for other options, click on "Change Search & Display Level"
   

• Aemilia Lanyer - resources including a bibliography

• Barnard Library Subject Guide to Literature - lists the major reference works, databases and Websites for research on literature

• Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection: British: 1500-1700 - links to critical and biographical Web sites about authors and their works

• Literary Resources — Renaissance Web links

• Luminarium.org: English Literature - Early 17th Century resources

• Renascence Editions - online works printed in English between the years 1477 (when Caxton began printing) and 1799

• Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance & 17th Century - collection of Web links