First Year Seminar: Self Fashioning in Film

First Year Seminar: Self-Fashioning in Film

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

How do I locate reviews of the Up series?

Omnifile
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Includes a popular reviews of film--and several from "trade" publications.

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

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

POV 49 Up (http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2007/49up/)

How do I locate in-depth criticism about the Up series, and discussion generally about documentary film?

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.

Omnifile ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Includes some in-depth criticism from film journals.

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

Trexler Library Catalog ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents 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. Use in conjunction with interlibrary loan.

How do I locate cultural background related to the Up series?

Historical Abstracts
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z ***RECOMMENDED***
A subscription database. Standard index for European history. Some full text.

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

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 in conunction with interlibrary loan.

How do I track down the full text of journal articles from within a database or otherwise?

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.

How do I obtain articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be requested on interlibrary loan from within a database or by visiting the interlibrary loan website: ACCESS: Trexler Library website > ILL.

Other 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.

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.