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Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Reference Works

Europa World Yearbook
Trexler Library Ready Reference 341.1 E89

CIA World Factbook
(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html)

Books

Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > catalog.
Catalog of all books, government documents and maps, videos, and special collections in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Database > Most Popular > WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

Library reserves

Professors often place books, articles, atlases, etc. on reserve at the library's circulation desk. Inquire at this desk if you need reserve items for a particular course.

Professors may also choose to use the library's ERes (electronic reserves) system. To access this service (password required) visit Trexler Library website > Find > Show more > Reserves.

Periodical articles

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.

LexisNexis Academic
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Extensive newspaper and magazine archive. Includes publications throughout the U.S. and around the world. Updated daily.

subject-specialty indexes. . .

MLA
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for film and literary criticism. Includes some full text.

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 > ILL

Citing sources in an annotated 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 help in writing annotated bibliographies in the MLA style, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/) for a definition of an annotation and proper format.