The Trexler Library: Muhlenberg College

Women & Art

Need help with your research? Contact:

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

Reference works

Dictionary of Art (Grove)(Reference Collection, level A, call # 703 T948d)

Books

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.

Periodicals

newspapers and other popular periodicals

Academic Search Premier
Available by library subscription. Includes many popular periodicals.Includes these women's studies journals full-text: Feminist Studies, Frontiers, Gender & History,Gender Issues, Gender Place & Culture, Off Our Backs, Studies in Gender and Sexuality

LexisNexis Academic
Available by library subscription. A reliable source from full text newspapers from around the world. From within the database, choose: News. Then choose the source (e.g. Major World Newspaper) and then specify the date range.

scholarly journals in art history and specialized art magazines

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 specialty art magazines, and includes the full text of many. Indexes and/or includes the full text of specialty art magazines such as Art in America Artforum, Apollo, Burlington Magazine, October, Modern Painters, Women Artists News.

JSTOR
A subscription database. An archive for many scholarly journals including some in art history. Includes these women's studies journals full-text: Signs

other databases that include journals specific to women's studies . . .

Directory of Open Access Journals
Open access. Includes these journals full-text: Genders

Omnifile
A subscription database. Includes these women's studies journals full-text: Differences, Hypatia, Journal of Women's History, NWSA Journal

Sage Journals Online
Includes these women's studies journals full-text: European Journal of Women's Studies, Feminism & Psychology, Feminist Theory, Gender & Society

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.

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 (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 (and annotated bibiographies)

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

For help in writing annotated bibliographies in the MLA style, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab for a definition of an annotation and proper format.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/). Ask Kelly if you have questions about this.

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Last modified: 4 September 2011