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GCM 710 -- The Art of the Book

This LibGuide was originally developed as a course guide with a focus on researching fine book publishing and book design. For winter 2019, there is a new page on researching books from the McGraw-Hill Ryerson Press Collection at the Toronto Metropolitan

Key Indexing Resources (some have partial full text content included)

TMU Library Search Everything This search engine searches for books and audio-visual materials that are also listed in the library's catalogue, as well as journal articles (chiefly those that are available electronically), theses and dissertations, newspaper coverage from some recent and a selection of archival newspapers, and digitized content such as out-of-copyright books and journals that are available from sources such as The Internet Archive and The Hathi Trust. It is most useful for finding journal articles, when the filters on the left are selected after running a search.

Use the advanced search option for more control over how you search. Use the Expand Your Search button to include citations to articles and books that may only be available at TMU in print or microformats and others that are not held here but may be accessed using interlibrary loan.

If you want to try a more focused search restricted to databases emphasizing literary and historical studies including works about authors, illustrators and other book artisans active in Canada, try the following resources:

Canadian Book Trade Bibliography, 1935-1985 = Bibliographie sur le commerce du livre au Canada, 1935-1985

This resource indexes about 300 print resources including Quill & Quire. It is not a full-text document database.

Key Databases

Archival Newspapers

Current and Recent Newspapers

More Resources from the Toronto Public Library (TPL)

The Toronto Public Library has an excellent collection that supports the study of English literature, visual arts, history and other disciplines. Many scholarly works are only available at the Toronto Reference Library located on Yonge Street one block north of Bloor Street. These items generally must be used in the library. Some material is part of the vast circulating collection. Online databases and books are becoming more common.

Print Indexes

Nineteenth century readers' guide to periodical literature : 1890-1899, with supplementary indexing, 1900-1922
This resource complements TMU Library's electronic access to C19: The Nineteenth Century Index.

Indexes to individual journals or periodicals may be found by searching the name of the journal as a subject.
Some more general searches will reveal the types of indexes available:

19th century indexes
19th century periodicals indexes

Print Bibliographies and Catalogue raisonnés

Bibliographies exist for many important writers and artists. They can help you identify additional resources that may not be easily found in online databases. Try searching the TPL catalogue, using your subject's personal name word bibliography, or, catalogue raisonnes

example: macdonald thoreau bibliography

Online Resources

Literature Criticism Online covers contemporary and classical literature, drama and poetry as well as children's literature.
Literature Resource Center is a database that is also available through TMU.
A TPL account is required for log-in.  All members of the TMU Community are eligible for TPL borrowing privileges

Google Scholar

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly and peer reviewed literature. From one search box, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites

As of March 2015, Wikipedia reported that approximately 160 million documents were indexed by Google Scholar. Coverage of topics in Google Scholar varies from discipline to discipline as many journal publishers do not allow Google to index their articles; in many cases searching subject specific databases will result in a better choice of articles.

If you are searching with Google Scholar on-campus you will automatically be given access to articles for which TMU has a subscription.  If you are using Google Scholar off-campus, you will need to configure Google Scholar to get access to those articles.

Configuring Google Scholar for Off-campus Use

For Google Scholar to know that you are affiliated with TMU (and that you should have access to TMU resources), you will need to configure your Google Scholar Preferences as follows:

  1. Go to scholar.google.ca and click on the Settings icon
  2. Choose Library Links from the left-hand menu
  3. Enter TMU in the search box
  4. Click in the box beside Toronto Metropolitan University - Check TMU Libraries
  5. Scroll down and click on the Save Preferences button

Once configured, you will see Check TMU Libraries links when you search Google Scholar and you will have access to all TMU's subscription resources.

Google Scholar Chrome Extension

Chrome users can install the Google Scholar Button to make finding articles and formating citations easy.  You can use it to:

  • Find full text of articles
  • Re-do your web search on Google Scholar
  • Format references in APA, MLA or Chicago style and copy them into your paper.

To take full advantage of the Google Scholar Button when off-campus, remember to configure your Google Scholar settings so that it knows you are from TMU and provides access to TMU subscribed resources.

Creative Commons License

This guide has been created by the Toronto Metropolitan University Library and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License unless otherwise marked.

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