Search results flag journals held at Trexler Library. MLA is the standard index for journal articles containing literary criticism. MusicLiterature is the standard index for journal articles containing music criticism. While such sites are not necessarily bad, they should be scrutinized. One way to screen web sites is to use a web directory as your search engine.
Web directories vary in restrictiveness, but all have some rating system for site inclusion.
A web directory that carefully selects the best web sites on a variety of topics is Librarian's Index to the Internet . There are also gateways and search engines specific to art, such as ArtSearch . The web's strongest suit for this type of research is art reproductions. A commercial site recommended for locating art online, searchable by artist or movement, is ArtCyclopedia , canvasing online collections from many different museums. Style guides Trexler Library's MLA Style Examples offers models for citing print and electronic sources in a bibliography.