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Playing with Food: Cuisine and Culture
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
Encyclopedias
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (Ref. Collection 305.800973 V413g)
American Immigrant Culture (Ref. Collection 305.800973 L657a)
Countries and Their Cultures (Ref. Collection 306.03 E53c)
Food and Drink in America (Ref. Collection 641.3003)
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (Ref. Collection 641.03 K19e)
Books (secondary and primary resources)
Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College. Some useful subject headings are:Food habits and United States
Foodways
Lehigh/Allentown Latinos/HispanicWorldCat
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Books, videos, music
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
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Books, videos, music
A catalog of books and documents in the libraries of PALCI, to which Muhlenberg College belongs. Submit interlibrary loan requests here for rapid delivery.
Statistics
American Factfinder (U.S. Census Data) (http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en)
Global Market Information Database ACCESS: Trexler Library website> Articles A to Z
LexisNexis Statistical Universe (ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z)
Statistical Abstract of the United States (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2878) --also in print
Pennsylvania State Data Finder (http://pasdc.hbg.psu.edu/)
Pennsylvania Department of Health (http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/cwp/view.asp?a=175&q=234258)
Pew Hispanic Center (http://pewhispanic.org/)
Market research
Reference USA
ACCESS: Trexler Library website> Online Reference ShelfGMID (Global Market Information Database)
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Contains illuminating market research about shopping and diets for various countries and the ethnic groups therein.
Periodical articles (popular and scholarly)
general indexes with full text. . .
Academic Search Premier
ACCESS: 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.Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/)
Nearly 3000 open-access peer-reviewed journals sponsored by educational institutions and other donors.LexisNexis Academic Universe
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
See especially this section: General > Power Search > Ethnic NewsMorning Call via Proquest
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Lehigh Valley news,coverage 1984 to present.subject-specialty indexes (scholarly). . .
Business Source Elite
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database for business research. Some full text.Sage Journals Online
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for media and communication. Some full text.Healthsource
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database for health and medicine. Some full text.PsycInfo ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database for psychology. Some full text.Sociological Abstracts
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
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 Text at Trexler 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 > ILL
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.Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/)
Highly selective search engine and directory of web resources. Both scholarly and popular sites deemed important by a team of California-based public librarians. Entries are accompanied by paragraph-length descriptions.
Local resources
List of restaurants in the Lehigh Valley
Blog: Beyond Scrapple - A Guide (http://www.beyondscrapple.com/)
Other helpful websites
International Potato Center (http://www.cipotato.org/)
Evaluating resources
Visit Trexler Library's Evaluating Resources page. ACCESS: Trexler Library website >Getting Started.
Creating an annotated bibliography
For assistance in creating an annotated bibliography, visit Purdue University's MLA Annotated Bibliography (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_annotatedbibEX.html).
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.
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Last modified: 27 September 2007