Quick tour of electronic information
resources and library services
for English and American studies
Mgr. Pavla Martinková
Mgr. Lucie Tomaňová
Central Library of the Faculty of Arts | knihovna.phil.muni.cz
Have you been to the central library?
̶ Building F
Circulation and registration desk on 1st floor
Consultation desk on 2nd floor
Shelves by topic on each floor 2-4
̶ English studies on 3rd floor
What can the library do for you?
- study spaces
- building F for individual study
- building D for group study
- books & journals (F)
- open stacks (2st–4rd floor) & deposits
- Journal Reading Room (ground floor)
- CoD (Copy on Demand), ILL (Inter-Library Loan)
- online catalogue katalog.muni.cz
- support
- consultation services (F, 2st floor)
- information literacy lessons
- equipment
- storage units, board games, blankets, … (F)
- print, copy & scan machines (F, D)
- kitchenettes (F, D)
What are electronic information resources?
- not everything on the internet is trustworthy
- professional databases: high quality and credible
information → resources for your academic papers
- peer-reviewed articles in journals
- e-books
- videos, audio recordings, images, ...
Fantastic resources and where to find them
- Google Scholar
- simple search engine for scholarly resources
- digital libraries, open repositories, subject guides
- openly available academic content
- e.g. FoA digital library, MU repository
- ezdroje.muni.cz
- e-resources available for MU
- remote access is possible
- searchable through Discovery
Discover more with Discovery
- one query, multiple databases → good place to start your research
- use Full Text Finder to gain access to more results
- optional personal profile (single sign-in) for advanced features
- if Discovery is not enough, continue with specific databases
How to find what you’re looking for
- use Advanced search option if Basic is not enough
- ask smartly (because computers are not that smart yet)
- use appropriate keywords
- use Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT
- "include phrases" in your search
- use wildcards, e.g. comput* for computers, computing, compute, …
- filter your results
- by resource type, language, publication year, topic, …
- most of the databases have similar features and interface
Highlights
- Literature Online (LION): full texts of English and American literature, encyclopedic
information about authors and literary movements, reference works and criticisms
- Literature Resource Centre: full-text, biographic and bibliographic source of information on
literary figures
- The Times Digital Archive 1785—2013
- The Times Literary Supplement 1902—2014
- Brno Studies in English: peer-reviewed scholarly journal
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
- Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
- PressReader: current issues of magazines and newspapers
Highlights
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