A World Out of Balance

Need help with your research? Contact:

Martha Stevenson
Reference Librarian
Phone: x3601
msteven@muhlenberg.edu

Reference Desk Hours:
Call or email to confirm
M 5-9 p.m.
T,Th 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
W,F 12-1 p.m.

Office hours (by appt.):
Call or email to arrange

BOOKS

Search the Trexler Library Catalog (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) to find books the library owns. 

A keyword search produces a broad list of results.  Use with Boolean Operators.
Use OR between like concepts or synonyms.  Use AND between different concepts.
		Example:  SARS or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

	
A subject heading search produces a small, exact list of results.
	Library of Congress Subject Headings specifically for TLC
		Example:  SARS (Disease)
    Childhood Obesity
    Main Collection 618.92398 C536o

    Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends & Issues
    Main Collection 616.9 L343e

    Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases
    Reference Collection 616.903 T939e

    Encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS
    Reference Collection 616.9792 W343e

    Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence
    Reference Collection 614.4903 E56o

    Epidemic!: World of Infectious Disease
    Main Collection 614.4 D441e

    Global Crises, Global Solutions
    Main Collection 338.927 L843g

    Killer Germs: Microbes & Diseases that Threaten Humanity
    Main Collection 616.9 Z72K

    Statistical Handbook on Infectious Diseases
    Statistical Reference 614.0727 W343s

    Viral Fitness: the Next SARS & West Nile in the Making
    Main Collection 614.58 G624v
WORLDCAT

To expand your journal search considerably, try WorldCat. Follow the path: Trexler Library Home Page - Find - Books,Videos,Music - WorldCat. WorldCat is a unified catalog of many libraries in the U.S. and other parts of the world. This is a powerful search tool for books, web resources, and other materials on any subject. It will list area libraries if there are any that have that title in their collection.

OTHER LIBRARIES

As a Muhlenberg student, you have access and borrowing privileges to a number of college libraries in the Lehigh Valley. The Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges includes Cedar Crest College, DeSales University, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, and Moravian College. The web page for Regional Libraries (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/find/booksvideosmusic.html) will give you online access to their catalogs. There are also many Research Libraries whose catalogs you may want to explore.

ELECTRONIC DATABASES FOR JOURNALS/MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPERS
http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/articles/databases/alphabetical.html

General Databases
    Academic Search Premier contains full text for more than 4,500 scholarly and popular journals covering academic areas like the medical sciences, ethnic studies, education, humanities, etc.

    General Science and Biological & Agricultural Index both index scholarly and popular periodicals which have information on biology and agriculture plus many more scientific topics. Full text of some journals available.

    Health Source indexes and abstracts over 850 journals focusing on many medical dicsciplines. Full text of over 550 scholarly journals available.

    Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is a full-text database of major newspapers, newswires, select trade journals and magazines. Also features country information.

    Sage Journals Online is a database that indexes and provides full text to journals in all disciplines. Full text goes back to 1999 but indexes back to the 1870s. Coverage includes public health, health policy, global health, obesity and other topics.
Subject Specific Databases
    America: History & Life indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals that reference history of the United States and Canada.

    Historical Abstracts provides access to articles appearing in history journals, with emphasis on world history from 1450 to the present.

    PubMed is a product of the National Library of Medicine. It includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.

    Sociological Abstracts provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social behavioral sciences from 1963 to the present. Topics include community development, culture and social structure, demography, human biology, and family and social welfare.
INTERLIBRARY LOAN

Books and journals not found in Trexler Library can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/more/ill/index.html).
Remember, start early to allow enough time to receive them. It could take anywhere from 7 days to 2 weeks.

CITING SOURCES
http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/reshelp/citations.html

No matter where your information comes from, you always need to cite your sources. This is necessary to give the author proper credit for his or her work, as well as so that you or someone else could retrace the steps you took doing your research. The following sources provide examples of how to cite a wide variety of types of materials in footnotes or a bibliography.

The most frequently used citations have been compiled by the reference librarians on a webpage and handout. These can be found by following the path: Trexler Library Home Page - Research Help - Citation Guides.