The Trexler Library: Muhlenberg College

Cosmopolitanism

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Reference works

Credo Reference
An online library of well-known reference books, received by library subscription. Good for seeing how a term, like cosmopolitanism, is used in different disciplines.

OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary) (via library subscription)
The premier source for history of words in the English language, available via library subscription.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a scholarly (refereed) reference work, useful for defining philosophical concepts, such as cosmopolitanism and nationalism.

NGOs

NGO Custom Search Engine, created by a former Muhlenberg College librarian, at Indiana University, is a free access point to hundreds of NGOs on an array of topics.

Popular sources: newspapers and magazines

Academic Search Premier 
A subscription database. Includes the full text of many popular magazines including Time, New Yorker, etc.

LexisNexis Academic
A subscription database. Access to most major newspapers published in English, worldwide, plus newspapers in some foreign language.

Scholarly books

Trexler Library Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

Scholarly articles

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier
A subscription database. Good starting place for journals from every discipline. 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
Archive (five year old and prior) of scholarly journals across the discipllines. Search engine is a bit clunky.

subject-specialty indexes (scholarly). . .

America History and Life
A subscription database for U.S. history. Good starting place for aspects of cosmopolitanism or nationalism as they pertain to U.S. historical events and figures.

Historical Abstracts
A subscription database for non-U.S. history.

MLA
A subscription database for literary criticism, film criticism, and theater criticism.

PsycInfo
A subscription database for pschology

Sociological Abstracts
A subscription database. Standard index for sociology.

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.

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.

Search engines

Google
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.

Google Scholar
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
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.

Creating a bibliography

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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Last modified: 23 September 2011