The Trexler Library: Muhlenberg College

History of Modern Architecture

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Librarian
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Reference works..

Dictionary of Art (Trexler Library Reference, level A, 703 T948d)

Scholarly books on your chosen building or architect...

Trexler Library Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College. Some useful subject headings are:

WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

Google Books
Many authors have placed their works in Google Books as a way to increase exposure and hopefully sell more copies of their works.  Any full text that appears may not be easy to extract or manipulate, and often only snippets are available for viewing online. Use the "Find in a Library" option to "request item" on interlibrary loan (you need to be "connected to the Muhlenberg Col Libr network" to do so).

Articles from art magazines or scholarly journals...

America History & Life or Historical Abstracts
Subscription databases, one in American history, one in non-U.S. history.

Art Full Text ***RECOMMENDED***
A subscription database. Good starting place for art journals and art magazine, and includes the full text of many. Includes journals such as Art in America and Artforum.

JSTOR
A subscription database. An archive for many scholarly journals including some in art history.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Get It link found next to the citation, or run a journal title search in Trexler Library's online catalog.

The following journals are located in hard copy on C level of the library (located just past the 900s Dewey section) arranged alphabetically by journal title:

American art
The American magazine of art
Apollo
The Art bulletin
Art d'aujourd'hui
Art in America
Art journal
Artforum international
Artibus Asiae
ARTnews
Arts magazine
Bulletin - Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Burlington magazine
Contemporanea
The Connoisseur
Flash art
Gazette des beaux-arts
The International studio
Journal of contemporary art
Magazine of art
October
Winterthur portfolio

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.

Search engines

Scholarly (use with discretion)

Google Scholar
An open-access web crawler that looks for content it identifies as "scholarly." Emphasis is on books and journal articles. Intended as a "federated search" to search across disciplines (weighted toward sciences and social sciences). Not always full text. Check our Journal Locator (see above) to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text.

Intute
The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources in the Chicago style, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero.

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Last modified: 12 March 2011