World Literature I

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Reference works (good for locating points of interest and getting recommendations of sources)

generally. . .

Credo Reference
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Online Reference Shelf
A subscription reference database including many well-known and respected reference works published ABC-CLIO, Routledge, and others.

Classical period . . .

Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome (Trexler Library B level, call #880.920 A541)

Brill's New Pauly (Trexler Library B level, call # 913.38 B857n) [sample]

Civilization of the ancient Mediterranean : Greece and Rome (Trexler Library B level, call #938 G762c)

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Catalog

The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (Trexler Library B level, call #930.103 O98c)

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Catalog

the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . . .

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Catalog

Dictionary of the Middle Ages  (Trexler Library B level, call #909 D554)

Encylopedia of the Renaissance (Trexler Library B level, call #940.2103 E56of)

Reference Guide to Russian Literature (Trexler Library B level, call #891.703 C821r)

European Writers: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance  (Trexler Library B level, call #809.20 E89W)

music. . .

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Trexler Library B level, call #780.3 N532n )

art. . .

Dictionary of Art (Trexler Library A level, call #703 T948d). 

Books

Trexler Library Catalog
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Library Catalogs
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

Periodical articles 

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier 
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Databases 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)
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Databases A to Z
A subscription database. Includes extensive full text, from both popular and scholarly periodicals.

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. . .

Art Full Text
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Databases A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for art history, with indexing and abstracts from early 1900s-present. Some full text.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Databases A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for music scholarship: articles, books, and book chapters. Some links to full text.

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 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 > Interlibrary Loan

Can I search all the library databases and catalog together, in one search?

Most of the databases and the library catalog can be searched together in a new library search engine called Search Central found on the Trexler Library website. Most useful when working with narrow topics where you need everything that's available.  Several search features are missing from the original databases, like relevance, and language and peer review limiters.

Web search engines, directories, and selected sites

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.

Evaluating resources

Visit Trexler Library's Evaluating Resources page for some criteria to evaluate information resources.

Here are some sample websites to compare for scholarly worth:

Citing sources

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

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero.

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