The Trexler Library: Muhlenberg College

Think Like Leonard da Vinci

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Librarian
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
IM (AIM, Yahoo, MSN): refcannon
Reference desk IM: talktotrexler

How do I located an archive of The Chronicle (aka Chronicle of Higher Education)

Chronicle.com
Available by library subscription. Sample article.

LexisNexis Academic
Available by library subscription. Click on News > College and University

Where can I find an alternative voice to The Chronicle?

Inside Higher Ed
A freely available forum for discussion about higher ed. Sample article.

How do I find university and college newspapers?

LexisNexis Academic
Available by library subscription. Click on News > College and University

How do I locate scholarly journals and scholarly "gray literature" on my topic?

Academic Search Premier 
Available by library subscription

ERIC
Available by library subscription. Includes research articles plus conference presentations and other "gray literature" called ERIC documents, compiled by the U.S. government clearinghouse of educational research.

PsycInfo
Available library subscription. Good for research in educational psychology.

Web search engines

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

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.

How do I find scholarly book-length studies about my topic?

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.

Creating a 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.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/).

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Last modified: 23 August 2011