Border Crossings

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Reference works

dictionaries of word history and etymology. . .

A comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English language. Dealing with the origin of words and their sense development thus illustrating the history of civilization and culture
Reference Collection 422 K64c

The Oxford English dictionary
Reference Collection 423 M982o
OR
OED Online (via library subscription) (http://0-dictionary.oed.com.library.muhlenberg.edu/entrance.dtl)

The chronology of words and phrases : a thousand years in the history of English
Reference Collection 422 F588c

Grand allusions : a lively guide to those expressions, terms, and references you ought to know but might not
Reference Collection 422.03 W371g

The origin of medical terms
Reference Collection 610.14 S628

thesauri. . .

Roget's thesaurus
Reference Collection 424 B291r

The synonym finder
Reference Collection 423.1 R685s

slang dictionaries. . .

Dictionary of Contemporary Slang via library subscription
(http://0-www.credoreference.com.library.muhlenberg.edu/vol/453)

The Oxford dictionary of modern slang
Reference Collection 427.09 O98d

guides to quotations. . .

Bartlett's Familiar quotations
READY Reference Collection 808.8 B289f

Columbia World of Quotations
(http://www.bartleby.com/66/)

dictionaries of symbols. . .

Symbolism : a comprehensive dictionary.
Reference Collection 302.22 O44s

and

Reverse symbolism dictionary : symbols listed by subject.
Reference Collection 302.22 O44r

concordances. . .

The Harvard concordance to Shakespeare
Reference Collection 822.33 A6s

Analytic concordance to the Bible
Reference Collection 220.2 Y75a

gazetteers. . .

The Columbia gazetteer of the world
READY Reference Collection 910.3 C726g

indexes. . .

Granger's Index to poetry
HUMANITIES Reference Collection 016.81 G758
also on CD-ROM at the Reference Desk

subject-specific dictionaries and encyclopedias. . .

Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Reference Collection 909 D554

The Encyclopedia of religion
Reference Collection 203 E56

Encyclopedia of human biology
Reference Collection 612.003 E56o

Macmillan encyclopedia of chemistry
Reference Collection 540.3 M137e

Man, myth & magic : the illustrated encyclopedia of mythology, religion, and the unknown
Reference Collection 133 M266m

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Reference Collection 103 R869e

Credo Reference
(http://0-www.credoreference.com.library.muhlenberg.edu/)
An online collection reputable encyclopedias subscribed to my Muhlenberg College.

Books

Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Library Catalogs > WorldCat
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 website > 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.

JSTOR
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
Archive from Stanford University of scholarly journals in all subject areas.

Project Muse
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
Recent archive of journals from a number of academic presses.

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

subject-specialty indexes (a sample). . .

Business Source Elite
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for religious studies. Some full text.

PsycInfo
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for religious studies. 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 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 Loan

Search engines

Popular

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

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 in an annotated bibliography

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.