Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

First Year Seminar: Self-Fashioning in Film

Need help with your research? Contact:

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

Reference Works

Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/)
Great for popular reviews of films and basic information.

Books

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

WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
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. Use E-ZBorrow for faster interlibrary loan.

E-ZBorrow
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > ILL > E-ZBorrow
A catalog of books and documents in the libraries of PALCI, to which Muhlenberg College belongs. Submit interlibrary loan requests here for rapid delivery.

Online books

Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/)

Popular periodicals

Academic Search Premier
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Good starting place for popular film reviews. See especially GLBTQ publications like Advocate.

LexisNexis Academic
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Good for film reviews from newspapers around the world.

New York Blade (http://www.nyblade.com/)

Q-Notes (http://www.q-notes.com/)

Seattle Gay News (http://www.sgn.org/)

Southern Voice (http://www.sovo.com/)

Washington Blade (http://www.washblade.com/)

NOTE: More GLBTQ publications can be found by using a periodical directory called UlrichsWeb. To access: Trexler Library website > Online Reference Shelf

Blogs

Towleroad (http://www.towleroad.com/)

Scholarly periodicals

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.

JSTOR
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Archive from Stanford University of scholarly journals in all subject areas. Includes a collection of film studies journals.

Project Muse
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Recent archive of journals from a number of academic presses.

Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/)
Nearly 3000 open-access peer-reviewed journals sponsored by educational institutions and other donors.

subject-specialty indexes. . .

America History & Life
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for American history. Some full text.

Communication and Mass Media Complete
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for scholarly film criticism. Some full text.

MLA
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for scholarly film criticism. Some full text.

Sociological Abstracts
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for sociology (and cultural) studies.

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

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)
Not always full text. Check the Trexler Library Catalog (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.

Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu/)

Citing sources in 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.