To find books on a subject, you can do a keyword search in Discover@MU. Once you have results on the screen, you can use the limits in the left sidebar to focus on just books/ebooks and use the drop-down menus in the search box to search just within the title or subject headings. You can also expand your search to all the academic libraries in Missouri by using the MOBIUS catalog, which you can expand to include Colorado libraries by clicking on the Prospector link. You can have materials from either catalog delivered to any of the MU libraries for pick-up.
Note that neither of these searches the full text of books, just a brief description. Google Book Search allows you to search within books that Google has digitized and in most cases preview a few pages. Usually a link in the left sidebar will then help you find the physical book in a library.
It can take several years for criticism to be published, so scholarship on very recent works may not appear in the research databases. Book reviews or blog posts may be the main responses to a work for the first few years.
Book reviews may be found in most of the databases listed. Look for the advanced search feature and the option to limit by document type to review or book review.
Database are very literal, so pay attention to the words you use to search. For example "clifi" probably won't retrieve "cli-fi". That hyphen makes all the difference!
Here are some of the subject headings/descriptors that may be helpful:
| climate and civilization climatic changes--fiction climatic changes in literature climatic factors climatology climatology in literature |
ecocriticism ecofiction--history and criticism ecology in literature environmental disasters environmental policy in literature environmental protection in literature environmentalism in literature |
global warming--fiction human ecology nature--effect of human beings on |
