History of Photography
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Kelly Cannon
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Reference works
Dictionary of Art (Grove) (Trexler Library Reference Room call # 703 T948d)
Artcyclopedia (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/)
Exhibition catalogs and other thematically related books
Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College. Some useful subject headings are:WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Library catalogs
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.
Exhibition reviews and critical articles
newspapers and other popular periodicals via subscription databases
LexisNexis Academic
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
A reliable source from full text newspapers from around the world. From within the database, choose: News.scholarly journals and specialized art magazines via subscription databases
America History & Life or Historical Abstracts
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
Subscription databases, one in American history, one in non-U.S. history.Art Full Text ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
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
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
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. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
articles via interlibrary loan. . .
Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Interlibrary loanevaluating the quality of a periodical
Periodicals vary tremendously in the depth and rigor of their articles. One evaluative tool is Ulrichsweb. To access visit Trexler Library website > Online Reference Shelf.
Search engines
Scholarly (use with discretion)
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
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 (http://www.intute.ac.uk/)
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, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.
For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/).
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Last modified: 24 August 2010
