Representing the Age of Revolutions

Representing the Age of Revolution

Need help with your research? Contact:

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

Encyclopedias

American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature (Reference 016.9 G946, 1995)
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Reference 940.253 E56o)
Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799 (Reference 944.0403 S429h)

Books in our collection and elsewhere

Trexler Library Catalog
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Library Catalogs
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

For a preview of a book. . .

Google Books (http://books.google.com)

Scholarly articles, full text or ordered on interlibrary loan

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Databases 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.

Omnifile (WilsonWeb)
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A subscription database. Includes extensive full text, from both popular and scholarly periodicals.

subject-specialty indexes. . .

history

Historical Abstracts
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A subscription database. Standard index for European history 1450-present.

literature

MLA
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > Databases A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for literary criticism.

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

Can I search all the library databases and catalog together, in one search?

Most of the databases and the library catalog can be searched together in a new library search engine called Search Central found on the Trexler Library website. Most useful when working with narrow topics where you need everything that's available. Several search features are missing from the original databases, like relevance, and language and peer review limiters.

Search engines

Popular

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

Scholarly (use with discretion)

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
An open-access web crawler that looks for content it identifies as "scholarly." Emphasis is on books and journal articles. Intended as a "federated search" to search across disciplines (weighted toward sciences and social sciences). Not always full text. Check our Journal Locator (see above) to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text.

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 assistance in creating an annotated bibliography, visit Purdue University's MLA Annotated Bibliography (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_annotatedbibEX.html).

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/).