This guide is an introduction to the research process that, while not being an exhaustive list of information resources available, should be helpful in getting started in your research about fairy tales. Below you will find pointers to suggested research terms about fairy tales, materials in the library catalog about fairy tales, websites relevant to fairy tales, and links to library databases that contain information about fairy tales. Please use our email reference service, contact us at (310) 434-4254, or visit us in the library at the reference desk if you need further assistance.
Suggested Research Terms
One of the really helpful things when searching for information about a topic is a short list of terms related to a topic. We think the following terms will help with your research about fairy tales:
- Bruno Bettelheim
- Carl Jung
- Sigmund Freud
- archetypes
- Brothers Grimm
- Hans Christian Andersen
Materials in the library catalog related to fairy tales
We have the following materials in the library catalog related to fairy tales:
Websites on fairy tales
The following websites will help you with your research on fairy tales:
The Cinderella Project: University of Southern Mississippi
This is a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. The Cinderellas presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
This is a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. The Cinderellas presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
The Baldwin Online Children.s Project
Website is subtitled .Best Online Classic Children.s Stories. and contains over 10,000 stories in all genres, listed by title.
Website is subtitled .Best Online Classic Children.s Stories. and contains over 10,000 stories in all genres, listed by title.
A Collection of Fairy Tale Sites
Directory of fairy tale websites from around the world.
Directory of fairy tale websites from around the world.
Folklinks
This site is a listing of folk and fairy tale sites compiled by D.L. Ashliman to accompany his handbook.
This site is a listing of folk and fairy tale sites compiled by D.L. Ashliman to accompany his handbook.
Library Databases relevant to fairy tales
The following Santa Monica College Library online databases may contain material relevant to fairy tales. Databases may include magazine, newspaper and journal articles. Please note: you must be a Santa Monica College student, faculty or staff member to use these services.
Academic Search Premier, MasterFile Premier
Academic Search Premier and MasterFile Premier provide full text for over 6200 periodicals including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
Academic Search Premier and MasterFile Premier provide full text for over 6200 periodicals including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
Magill On Literature and Authors
Critical analyses and plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. Includes information on over 1,500 notable authors. Magill On Authors covers long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists and philosophers.
Critical analyses and plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. Includes information on over 1,500 notable authors. Magill On Authors covers long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists and philosophers.
Philosophy and Religion Collection
Covers such topics as epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy, world religions, biblical studies, religious history. Includes more than 300 full text journals.
Covers such topics as epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy, world religions, biblical studies, religious history. Includes more than 300 full text journals.
Encyclopedia Americana
Includes 45,000 articles, plus thousands of hypertext links to web sites featuring additional data. It is updated quarterly.
Includes 45,000 articles, plus thousands of hypertext links to web sites featuring additional data. It is updated quarterly.
Encyclopedia, Funk and Wagnalls New World
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
JSTOR
Back issues of over 300 scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archeology, Art and Architecture, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Music, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
Back issues of over 300 scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archeology, Art and Architecture, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Music, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
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