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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: nuclear energy
A subject heading search produces a small, exact list of results. Library of Congress Subject Headings specifically for TLC Example: atomic bomb
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American Men & Women of Science
Reference 509.2 A512m 2007
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Reference 509.20 D554
Encyclopedia of the Atomic Age
Reference 539.703 E56o
Facts on File Dictionary of Atomic & Nuclear Physics
Reference 539.703 R416f
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
Reference 503 M147c 2007
Notable Twentieth Century Scientists
Reference 509.22 M167n
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
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Academic Search Premier contains full text for more than 4,500 scholarly and popular journals covering academic areas like the medical sciences, physical sciences, ethnic studies, education, humanities, etc.
General Science and Biological & Agricultural Index both index scholarly and popular periodicals which have information on all aspects of the sciences including biology and agriculture plus many more topics.
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.
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New York Times is indexed in Lexis-Nexis from 1980 to the present. If you want to look at a topic that is older than 1980 the New York Times Index is in the reference collection and the newspaper is on microfilm. Both go back to 1857.
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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.
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.