Search the Library Catalog (Lucy2)
Use the advanced (default) search screen to perform a keyword search.
Use the basic search screen to perform a subject heading search.
Sample subject headings include: folk literature, folk music, folk poetry, folk songs, folklore, and urban folklore.

Browse Books
   Call numbers GR = Folklore
   Call numbers PN905-1008 = Folk Literature
   Call numbers HT101-395 = The City, Urban Sociology

Reference Books (first floor, beyond the reference desk)
Reference books provide a great place to gather basic facts, find background information and browse ideas and topics.

• American folklore : an encyclopedia / edited by Jan Harold Brunvand. New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
  GR101 .A54 1996
• Contemporary legend : a folklore bibliography / Gillian Bennett, Paul Smith. New York : Garland, 1993.
  GR78 .B46 1993
• Encyclopedia of folklore and literature / editors, Mary Ellen Brown, Bruce A. Rosenberg ; editorial assistants, Peter Hale, Kathy Sitarski. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998.
  PN41 .E48 1998
• Folklore : an encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music, and art / edited by Thomas A. Green. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1997.
  GR35 .F63 1997
• Larousse dictionary of world folklore / Alison Jones. Edinburgh : Larousse, 1995.
  GR35 .J664 1995
• The big book of urban legends : adapted from the works of Jan Harold Brunvand / by Robert Loren Fleming and Robert F. Boyd, Jr. New York : Paradox Press, 1994.
  PN6726 .F54 1994 (currently on reserve)

Journal Article Indexes
The list of journal article indexes below is brief and provides a starting place for your research. For a larger choice of indexes, go to the Sociology subject page, the Anthropology subject page, or the English subject page.

JSTOR
JSTOR ("Journal Storage") is an archive of hundreds of scholarly journals from their earliest published issues through to the past four or five years. The journal content of JSTOR can be searched or browsed. Journals with folklore-related content that are covered by JSTOR include Journal of American Folklore, American Quarterly, American Speech, Current Anthropology, Comparative Literature and Modern Philology.
Sample JSTOR advanced search:
("folklore" OR "folk tales" OR "urban legends") AND ("colleges" OR "universities") AND "1960s"

Project Muse
Like JSTOR, Project Muse is an online scholarly journal archive. Unlike JSTOR, which provides journal coverage only until approximatly 1998, Project Muse offers current journal content (usually from the late 1990s to the present). Project Muse provides access to the Journal of American Folklore, American Quarterly, American Speech, Modern Language Quarterly, Texas Studies in Literature and Language and more.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) (in LION)
Within the extensive LION database is ABELL, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. ABELL contains the full text of journals such as California Folklore Quarterly, Comparative Literature, Folklore, Journal of Popular Culture, Kenyon Review, New England Quarterly, and Western Folklore.

Journal Title Search
Use the search feature below to find journal titles in print, microfilm, online through JSTOR, Project Muse and online through full-text indexes such as Ebsco, LexisNexis, ProQuest. This search box will not seach for journal articles. Enter "folklore" to browse the various folklore journals available through the library.

Enter words from the journal title. Keywords:

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• Visit the library reference desk (first floor) or call the reference desk at extension 5503

• See Elizabeth Putnam, Social Sciences Librarian
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  Phone: extension 5542
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