Subject Guide
Please feel free to schedule a research consultation or email (helbling@wustl.edu).
Research
- English and American LiteraturePrimary resource guide for these subjects
- WU Special Collections -Finding AidsFinding aid search and unit listings
Stay Current
- BrowzineIn essence—a playlist for your journals. A mobile app, which also syncs with your computer, allows you to access and browse WU’s e-journals, bypassing the library website and catalog.
You can...
-Receive new issue alerts
-Create categorized bookshelves of favorite journals
-Save and share articles - New Books @ WUThe new books feed features new acquisitions to the University Libraries during the past 7 days.
Users can filter new acquisitions through the drop-down subject search menu or by typing in the search bar to the right. Users can further refine their results by typing search terms in the Date Received, Title, Author, Call Number, Library, or Subjects fields on the table.
Forms
Quick Tips
- Following citations from bibliographies – when tracking down an article, look up its JOURNAL TITLE
- Remembering JSTOR’s moving wall
- Setting up user accounts with vendors
- Reading Help Files, FAQs, Search Tips
- Examining all limiters available on search interfaces
- Checking dissertations and theses have been written? Proquest Dissertation and Theses database
- Checking Special Collections – Ours and those at other institutions
- Trolling for online digital collections: include phrases like “online exhibition,” “digital collection,” or “online archive” in your searches