The Trexler Library: Muhlenberg College

The Phenomena of Genius

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Librarian
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Reference desk IM: talktotrexler

Reference works

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Call # 780.3 N532n, level A of Trexler Library)
Arguably the most authoritative music reference work.

New Grove Dictionary of Opera (Call # 782.103 N532g, level A of Trexler Library)
Excellent opera reference source.

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.

Scholarly books

Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Library catalogs
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 
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
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
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
Archive (five year old and prior) of scholarly journals across the discipllines. Search engine is a bit clunky.

subject-specialty indexes (scholarly). . .

Historical Abstracts
ACCESS: Trexler Library website> Databases A to Z
A subscription database for European history.

PsycInfo
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
A subscription database for pschology

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for music theory.

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. 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 > Interlibrary Loan

Search engines

Google (http://www.google.com)
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.

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.

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 February 2011