SHORT STORY RESOURCES

LIBRARY PRINT RESOURCES
Reference
Major short story writers as well as all types of literature are covered in the Gale Group publications Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) REF PN771.C59, Twentieth Century
Literary Criticism (TCLC) REF PN771.G27, and Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) REF PN761.N56 1981. These provide critical, biographical, and bibliographic information. The writer’s death date in a particular century determines inclusion in that century’s series. CLC contains the most recent writers. An online index that places authors and works in particular
volumes and series is at www.galegroup.com (click Free Resources then Literary Index under
Related Links).
The following short story reference publications are especially useful for lesser-known
writers and lesser-known stories by major writers:
Short Story Criticism (SSC) (Gale Group Literary Criticism Series) PN3373.S386 1988
This ongoing series reprints literary criticism and analyses of short stories from both journals and books covering "major short story writers of all eras and nationalities." Each volume covers the work of several short story authors and also includes biographical information and bibliographies. The cumulative author index in the back of the most recent SSC volumes indexes previous volumes. The title index in each volume lists only the titles contained in the volume. A cumulative title index is published separately. Coverage from 1988 to present. The Annual Cumulative Title Index covers volumes 1–49. For titles covered in subsequent volumes published before the next cumulative index, consult the title index in each volume (next Annual Cumulative Title Index issued in Spring 2003). Contains biographical, bibliographic and critical information.
Studies in Short Fiction (SSF) REF PN3311.S8 Index
An analytical, cross-referenced index of essays, notes, and reviews found in the Studies in Short Fiction quarterly journal published by Newberry College. A 32-year index (1963-1995) in
7 volumes: volumes 1-2, essays; 3-6, authors; 7, supplement (current writers, brief overviews,
principal short fiction of authors, index to all authors). ACC has volumes 20-36 (1983-1999), of which v. 20-35 is on microfiche and v. 35-36 is in hard copy in the periodicals collection. SSF is also accessible online in ProQuest and EBSCOhost (see other side). SSF is no longer published after 1999.
Critical Survey of Short Fiction (CSSF) REF PN3321.C7
Volumes 1-6 contain essays on almost 500 world authors of short fiction. Each essay includes brief biographical information, a bibliography, and analysis of the author's short fiction work.
Volume 7 contains overview essays surveying short fiction through history and around the world, and lists of major award winners including recipients of the O. Henry and Best American Short
Stories awards.
Book Reviews
Book Review Digest
Yearly volumes containing citations and one-paragraph summary and excerpts of reviews. Entries in body arranged by name of author (or title when created by editors). Each volume has a subject and title index. Subjects in index include literary genres, e.g., short stories, fiction, mystery fiction, poetry, plays, etc.
Books
Use the online catalogs listed on the other side to access books from ACC and other sources.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Library catalogs
The ACC online library catalog (CARLweb) and other library catalogs
accessible from the ACC Library homepage and
http://accl.carl.org/index.html and www.arapahoe.edu/custom/library.html
Literature reference databases (accessible on-campus)
Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
http://www.arapahoe.edu/custom/LibraryDatabases.html
Periodical databases (also accessible off campus with supplied passwords)
http://www.arapahoe.edu/custom/LibraryDatabases.html
Use EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier in Basic keyword search (ProQuest is also good, but has a smaller collection of criticism material)
search terms:
[title of story] and [author] and [criticism]
[title of story] and [criticism]
[author] and [short story] and [criticism]
[title of book] and [book review]
Links
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
This website created by Alan Liu of UC Santa Barbara is a well-regarded and extensive "archive of archives" for humanities research. The Literature (in English) page has an extensive list of links to literature resources.
Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Categorized, annotated links to literature sources on the Web. Created by Jack Lynch of Rutgers.
The English Server Fiction Collection: Short Fiction
http://eserver.org/fiction/short.html
This page lists links to a selection of short fiction by approximately 60 authors. Other areas of the English Server website provides links to literary subgroups such as feminism and gender.
The Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection www.ipl.org/div/litcrit
Electronic books
netLibrary available from the ACC Library catalog access point
www.arapahoe.edu/custom/library.html (users must register at site on campus)
Other free Web electronic book sites are IPL Books Collection at www.ipl.org/div/books, Project Gutenberg at www.promo.net/pg, and National Academy Press at www.nap.edu
Book Reviews
AcqWeb http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/bookrev.html
The New York Review of Books www.nybooks.com (archives to 1963)
The New York Times www.nyt.com (reviews since 1996)
Amazon.com www.amazon.com

SHORT STORY RESOURCES

6-03, prepared by Ed Sadowski, Reference Librarian, www.KnowledgeResearch.homestead.com/ACC.htmll

in the Library
and on the Web

in the Library
and on the Web