• At the Ely Library Home Page, click on Contemporary Literary Criticism (listed under "Quicklinks to Databases").
• Click on Proceed at the next screen; then click on Contemporary Literary Criticism at the Database List.

• Search Screen: Allows Author Search, Subject Guide, Title Search, or Advanced Search with terms that you supply. Just select your search type. Then type your terms in the dialog box, and click on Search or press enter on your keyboard.
• Author Search: Searches by surname then by first name. A search by surname such as Hemingway, Ernest will return a list of articles on the name Ernest Hemingway.
• Subject Guide Search: Searches for major subject headings that contain your search words. Produces a list of all subjects in which your search terms appear.
• Title Search: Searches for all articles that contain your search words. This results in a citation list of matching articles sorted alphabetically by Author surname.
• Advanced Search:  Searches indexes that you select:  author (au), subject (su), title (ti), gender (gd), ethnicity (et), nationality (nt), birthplace (bp), birthyear (by), deathplace (dp), critic name (cn),  etc.
Examples: su war and nt irish (for Irish authors who wrote about War). Result sets from two or more searches can be combined: example R1 and R2

Help-Search   Author Search   Subject Guide   Title Search   Advanced Search   Start Over Back to...    Collections    Library

Westfield State College Contemporary Literary Criticism     History No Search Results Author search Click in the entry box and enter search term(s) Search for authors by name (e.g., Stephen King)

The Citation List:displays a list of citations that match your search term(s). Clicking on Mark, Limit Search or View performs the following:

• View lets you see the citation contents. These contain the full text of the entry for an author in sections titled: Personal  Information, Career, Writings, Media Adaptations, Sidelights, and Further Readings About the Author.
• Mark bookmarks an article for later review.
• Select all items on this page - Clicking in the box Marks all articles on the page for later review or printing.
• Limit Search lets you add more words to your search.

The Article Screen: displays a detailed view of one article with graphics plus links to other articles on this subject.

• Printing from Netscape: Prefer Print or E-Mail or Retrieval for printing (see below). Click on Print; at the next screen click OK. Printing from Netscape may cut off some text on the right side of the page and print the graphics in an irregular format.
• Printing from Print: At full record display for a Full Text document, click on Print, then click OK to print a formatted copy.
• Printing from E-Mail or Retrieval: Click on E-Mail or Retrieval(on the left) to get the options for printing a copy of the record you're viewing: Browser Print or Acrobat Reader.
• Browser Print means to print the record using your Web browser. Clicking on the Reformat link displays the record again with any graphics rendered at full size and in the correct position. Wait until the browser indicates that the document is done. Click on Print; at the next screen click OK.
• Acrobat Reader  lets you read and print documents in Portable Document Format (PDF). Clicking on the Retrieve link downloads an image of the item as it appeared in print to your system. To print, click on the printer icon on the left just above the document. Then click OK.
• Email delivery: Enter your email address, select the record format that you want to mail, and click on Submit Email request.

• Help-Search : For Help that is context-sensitive to where you are in the database.
• Print or E-Mail: presents the options for printing or emailing a copy of the record you're viewing
• Link: Takes you to other citations related to this topic.
• View Mark List: Click to review Marked Citations.
• Citations: Return to your original list of citations.
• Search: Click to start a new search.
• Collections: Returns to the opening list of databases available
• Start Over: Returns to the opening search screen.

Advanced Searching: Advanced Searching  involves three easy steps:

1. Choose a search index (you can search by Ethnicity, Nationality, Gender, Birthyear, Critic Name, etc)
2. Click in the entry box and enter one or more words
3. Click on [Search] 

In this example, "R2" identifies the result of the second search.. The "tx" is a two-letter index abbreviation that means the text word index was searched. Each index has its own abbreviation.

You can highlight any search result and click on [View] to see citations. You can also perform more searches, then combine search results using logical operators (e.g., R3 not R5).  You can also use logical and other search operators between words that you're searching for (e.g., jealousy or envy).