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Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Reference Librarian
Phone: x3602
kcannon@muhlenberg.edu

Martha Stevenson
Reference Librarian
Phone: x3601
msteven@muhlenberg.edu

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FINDING BOOKS

    Trexler Library

    Search the Trexler Library Catalog (http://library.muhlenberg.edu) to find books the library owns. 

    A keyword search produces a broad list of results.  Use with Boolean Operators.
Use OR between like concepts or synonyms.  Use AND between different concepts.
		Example:  team and leadership

    	
A subject heading search produces a small, exact list of results.
	Library of Congress Subject Headings specifically for TLC
		Example:  management
      Encyclopedia of Leadership
      Ref. Collection 303.3403 E56o

    WorldCat

    To expand your journal search considerably, try WorldCat . Follow the path: Trexler Library Home Page - Find - Books,Videos,Music - WorldCat. WorldCat is a unified catalog of many libraries in the U.S. and other parts of the world. This is a powerful search tool for books, web resources, and other materials on any subject. It will list area libraries if there are any and their holdings for that title.

    Regional Libraries

    As a Muhlenberg student, you have access and borrowing privileges to a number of college libraries in the Lehigh Valley. The Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges includes Cedar Crest College, DeSales University, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, and Moravian College. The web page for Regional Libraries will give you online access to their catalogs. Follow the path: Trexler Library Home Page - Find - Books,Videos,Music - Regional Libraries.

FINDING ARTICLES
http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/articles/databases/alphabetical.html

    Academic Search Premier contains full text for more than 4,500 scholarly and popular journals covering academic areas like the medical sciences, ethnic studies, education, humanities, etc.

    BusManagement provides access to articles with emphasis on practical aspects of business management.

    Business Source Elite is a full text database of over 1,000 of the world's top management and marketing journals. Dates back to 1985.

    Communication & Mass Media Complete indexes over 600 titles with half being in full text. Areas covered are those related to communication and the mass media like television, radio, etc.

    JSTOR full text archival database that covers a wide variety of subjects.

    Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is a full-text database of major newspapers, newswires, select trade journals and magazines.

    Morning Call is the full text online newspaper of Allentown, Pennsylvania from 1984 to the present.

    Omnifile is full text covering a variety of subject areas.

    PsycInfo covers scholarly, professional, and research articles in psychology and related fields, 1887 to the present, and books, 1987 to the present. Useful for locating materials on social or organizational behavior.

    Sage Journals Online is full text from 1999 to the present although citations can be from as far back as the 1890s. Topics covered include communication, business, policy, psychology, political science, sociology, religion, etc.

    SocAbs (Sociological Abstracts) provides citations and abstracts of research in sociology and related disciplines in the social behavioral sciences.

    Wall Street Journal is full text of the paper from 1982 to the present.

To see if the library has a journal go to Trexler Library Catalog and do a journal title search.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN
Books and journals not found in Trexler Library can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/more/ill/index.html).
Remember, start early to allow enough time to receive them. It could take anywhere from 7 days to 2 weeks.

SEARCHING THE WEB
When deciding to use information from the web look at the checklist on the library's webpage for Evaluating Resources (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/guides/evaluating.pdf).

    Google
    http://www.google.com
    Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.

    Librarian's Index to the Internet
    http://www.lii.org
    Highly selective. One of the most restricted search engines/directories. Both scholary and popular, but all are deemed important based on assessment by a team of librarians.
CITING SOURCES
http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/reshelp/citations.html

No matter where your information comes from, you always need to cite your sources. This is necessary to give the author proper credit for his or her work, as well as so that you or someone else could retrace the steps you took doing your research. The following sources provide examples of how to cite a wide variety of types of materials in footnotes or a bibliography.

The most frequently used citations have been compiled by the reference librarians on a webpage and handout. These can be found by following the path: Trexler Library Home Page - Research Help - Citation Guides.