The Trexler Library: Muhlenberg College

The Politics of Memory

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Reference works

Credo Reference
An online collection of well-known reference books, available by library subscription. Good for seeing how a term, like cosmopolitanism, is used in different disciplines.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (level A, Trexler Library, call # 103 R869e)
Reviewed an editorial board, this is a standard reference source in the discipline.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia. Compare/contrast with the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy listed above, as well as non-scholarly resources like SparkNotes and Wikipedia (not recommended for use with this project).

Scholarly books

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.

Scholarly articles

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier 
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
Archive (five year old and prior) of scholarly journals across the discipllines.

subject-specialty indexes (scholarly). . .

Philosopher's Index
Available through library subscription. Standard journal database in philosophy.

PsycInfo
A subscription database for pschology.

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 August 2011