Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

Renaissance Plays in Process

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
IM (AIM, Yahoo, MSN): refcannon
Reference desk IM: talktotrexler

Reference works

Encyclopedia of European Social History (Trexler Library Reference 306.09403 E56o)
Scholarly bibliography on witchcraft and gender in Early Modern Europe.

Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Scholarly entries and bibliography on witchcraft.
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > catalog.

Witchcraft Bibliography Project (http://www.witchcraftbib.co.uk/)

Online library catalogs of secondary and primary resources including books and government documents

Trexler Library Catalog
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Database > Most Popular > WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation. Use E-ZBorrow for faster interlibrary loan.

E-ZBorrow ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > ILL > E-ZBorrow
A catalog of books and documents in the libraries of PALCI, to which Muhlenberg College belongs. Submit interlibrary loan requests here for rapid delivery.

Online books

Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/)

Primary and/or secondary documents via open-access digital collections

British History Online (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/)
Includes full-text county and regional histories of England.

Witchcraft Collection (Cornell University) (http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/w/witch/)

Primary Documents via Subscription Databases at Lehigh University

Early English Books Online ***RECOMMENDED***
Sample
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. These primary texts range in subject matter through English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.

NOTE: To access, you will need to visit either of Lehigh University's two libraries (Linderman or FairChild Martindale) in person, using the 2-3 public access PCs located near the reference desk at either library. Inquire at the front desk for assistance. No downloading or email capability. Print to the public printer. No apparent fee.

Driving directions (http://www3.lehigh.edu/about/maps/packerdirections.asp) to Lehigh University. Map (http://www3.lehigh.edu/about/maps/default.asp) showing Linderman and Fairchild Martindale libraries.

Periodical articles (secondary) that may contain references to primary documents

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Good starting place for journals, and includes the full text of about 3000 journals. Limit to "peer reviewed" to find only scholarly articles. Back issues of journals begin as early as 1990. Recent issues may not be included yet, due to publisher agreement. Journals held in Trexler Library are marked accordingly.

Omnifile (WilsonWeb)
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Includes extensive full text, from both popular and scholarly periodicals.

Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/)
Nearly 3000 open-access peer-reviewed journals sponsored by educational institutions and other donors.

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.

subject-specialty indexes. . .

Historical Abstracts ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
(http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/articles/databases/alphabetical.html)
A subscription database. Standard index for European history. Some full text.

MLA
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
(http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/articles/databases/alphabetical.html)
A subscription database. Standard index for literary criticism. Some full text.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Text at Trexler link found next to the citation, or run a journal title search in Trexler Library's online catalog. NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > catalog.

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > ILL

Web search engines and directories

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

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.

Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp)
Search engine for humanities research on the web.

Evaluating resources

Visit Trexler Library's Evaluating Resources page. NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website >Getting Started.

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.