Step 1

Step 2

Step 2: Search serial bibliographies to begin building a preliminary bibliography or to supplement an existing bibliography.

a. Search the major general literature serial bibliographies.

Literary Research Guide/The Research Process/Secondary Step 2

MLA International Bibliography (G335) Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (G340) FRANCIS (G345)

Literary Research Guide/The Research Process/Secondary Step 2

b. Identify serial bibliographies devoted to a national literature, group, genre, literary period, subject, or individual author.

Literary Research Guide/The Research Process/Secondary Step 2

Wortman, Guide to Serial Bibliographies for Modern Literatures (G325) Bibliographic Index (D145)

Specialized Bibliographies

African American Literature

G. K. Hall Index to Black Periodicals (Q3740) “Annual Bibliography of Afro-American Literature, [1975–76]” (R4787a)

African Literatures

Africa-Wide Information (R4423)

American Literature

“Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries” (Q3285) “Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature” (Q3595) Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature (Q3620) Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature (Q3665) Miller, Comprehensive Bibliography for the Study of American Minorities (Q3700) G. K. Hall Index to Black Periodicals (Q3740) Hispanic American Periodicals Index (Q3973) “Annual Bibliography of Afro-American Literature, [1975–76]” (R4787a)

Art

International Bibliography of Art (U5138) ARTbibliographies Modern (U5140) Art Index (U5145) Répertoire d’art et d’archéologie (U5150) International Repertory of the Literature of Art (U5155) “Bibliography on the Relations of Literature and Other Arts” (U5965)

Australian Literature

AustLit (R4463) “Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature” (R4480)

Bibliography and Textual Criticism

Book History Online (U5275) Bibliographie der Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte (U5280)

Biography

Biography Index (J540)

Canadian Literature

Canadian Literary Periodicals Index (R4630) Canadian Periodical Index (R4635) “Year’s Work in Canadian Poetry Studies [1976–86]” (R4755a)

Caribbean-Area Literatures in English

“Select Bibliography of the Literature of the English-Speaking West Indies” (R4787)

Children’s Literature

“Bibliography,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (U5478) Children’s Literature Abstracts (U5490)

Classical Literatures

L’année philologique (S4890)

Colonialism and Postcolonialism

“Bibliography of Articles and Books Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism” (U6181)

Comparative Literature

“Annual Bibliography [1949–69],” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature (T5000a)

Composition and Rhetoric

ComPile (U5583) “Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English” (U5585) ERIC (U5590)

Computers and the Humanities

Humanities Computing Yearbook (U5657)

Dance and Literature

“Bibliography on the Relations of Literature and Other Arts” (U5965)

Drama and Theater

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text (L1160) “Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research Bibliography” (M2387) “Nineteenth-Century Theatre Research: A Bibliography” (M2690a) “Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography” (M2870)

English Literature

“Bibliography,” Anglo-Saxon England (M1660) Old English Bibliography (M1665) International Medieval Bibliography (M1835) World Shakespeare Bibliography Online (M2020) Bibliographie internationale de l’humanisme et de la Renaissance (M2025) “Literature of the Renaissance” (M2030) Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography (M2245) “Some Current Publications,” Restoration (M2250) “Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research Bibliography” (M2387) Romantic Movement (M2485) Victorian Database (M2490) “Annual Bibliography,” Keats-Shelley Journal (M2495) Victorian Bibliography (M2500) “RSVP Bibliography,” Victorian Periodicals Review (M2555) “Nineteenth-Century Theatre Research: A Bibliography” (M2690a) “Guide to the Year’s Work,” Victorian Poetry (M2720) “Annual Review,” Journal of Modern Literature (M2780) “Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography” (M2870)

Environmental Studies

ASLE Bibliography (U5737)

Film

Film and Television Literature Index (U5780) International Index to Film Periodicals (U5785)

Folklore

MLA International Bibliography (G335) Internationale volkskundliche Bibliographie (U5865)

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Studies

LGBT Life (U5935)

Gothicism

“Bibliography of Gothic Studies” (L875a)

Hispanic American Literature

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (Q3973)