Diverse Strategies for Literary Research: A Guide

As we work together as a team on our Digiliterary ebook project, we are going to need to research in traditional scholarship, finding the most authoritative and the most current sources. We should also make use of social sources, an increasingly important methodology that too few students and scholars recognize as a legitimate research strategy.

This post is intended to give some guidance in finding traditional scholarship, current scholarship, and social sources. What I am not discussing here is the important topic of search terms. That deserves its own post. Assuming, then, that one has at least some good starting points for topics and search terms, here are three ways into good sources: