Works Pages Include:

• An overview document to provide students with background and orienting information.
• Links to related topics and works to help students extend their research journey.
• Access to results for the topic or work, providing students with quick access to literary criticism, reference material, author interviews, and more.
• A link to a selected author biography.
• A link to read the full text or an excerpt of the work (when available).

Topics Pages Include:

• An overview document to provide students with background and orienting information.
• Links to related topics and works to help students extend their research journey.
• Access to results for the topic or work, providing students with quick access to literary criticism, reference material, author interviews, and more.

Applies a proprietary algorithm to deliver the most relevant search results based on your search term(s). The algorithm varies by product and prioritizes different indexes where your search term is found to deliver the best results. These indexes include but are not limited to Keyword, Title, and Subject.

Try executing your own basic search here!

Customize your search with more limiting options to target relevant results. You can use advanced search to run complex searches for specific results, or to perform open searches for a broad view of available content.

• Subject: Choose this field to search document tags and find results fully focused on your topic. Try subject if your basic search produces too many results.
• Publication Title: Use this option to find articles or documents from a particular publication like The Washington Post.
• Entire Document: Pick this field to search within the entire text of documents. This option performs a broad search for any mention of your terms, so you can find precise phrases within results, or locate articles that touch on specific concepts.
• Search Operators: Use these drop-downs to connect your search terms. AND ensures your results mention both terms. OR broadens your search to results mentioning either term. NOT excludes a term.

Use Person Search to find authors based on their name. Alternatively, you can enter a variety of criteria, such as gender, ethnicity, and genre. For example, you could search for female African American authors whose works deal with the subject or theme of adolescence.

Person Search Tips

• When searching by name, type in all or part of a name. You can also enter a variant name or pseudonym.
• To find multiple people based on shared criteria, leave the name field blank and instead enter the More Options.
• Nationality and Ethnicity: Nationality refers to an author's birth or citizenship in a particular country. For individuals who were born in one country and later became citizens of another, multiple nationalities have been identified. Ethnicity is based on membership in a group that shares a common language, culture, customs, or background.
• When viewing the results list from a Person Search, click or tap See Most Recent Updates to view the latest news about the person.

• NOTE Person Search searches a representative list of individuals covered in this resource who match your criteria based on distinguishing characteristics such as gender and nationality when that information is available. When you are looking for additional references to a person or if Person Search is not finding the individual you are looking for, use the search box or Advanced Search and select the Entire Document index.

Topic Finder offers a visual way to search. Use Topic Finder to discover the context of your search term and uncover hidden connections. The diagram can also be used to find additional search terms that are related your topic.

Create a Topic Finder Diagram

• Topic Finder is located on the Advanced Search Page. Instructions are displayed to explain how you can visualize results and link to documents.

Use Topic Finder to Visualize Your Search Results

• You can turn your search results into a Topic Finder diagram by selecting Topic Finder from the search limiter sidebar. The diagram displays the words and subjects that are found most often in the text of your results. You can view the diagram as a Wheel or as Tiles. Clicking or tapping on the diagram displays the corresponding document titles to the right.