Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

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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

film . . .

Internet Movie Database ( http://imdb.com/)
A good place for filmography and popular reviews.

sociological studies . . .

Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures: Cities and Cultures Around the World (Ref. Collection 307.7603 E53e)

Urban Sprawl: A Reference Handbook (Ref. Collection 307.760973 W722u)

Books (secondary and primary resources)

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

WorldCat
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Books, videos, music
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 > Books, videos, music
A catalog of books and documents in the libraries of PALCI, to which Muhlenberg College belongs. Submit interlibrary loan requests here for rapid delivery.

Periodical articles (popular and scholarly)

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.

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

LexisNexis Academic Universe
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
News articles

Omnifile (WilsonWeb)
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Good starting place for journals,

subject-specialty indexes (scholarly). . .

America History and Life
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database for U.S. history. Some full text.

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

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

Sociological Abstracts
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for sociology.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Text at Trexler 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)
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.

Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/)
Highly selective search engine and directory of web resources. Both scholarly and popular sites deemed important by a team of California-based public librarians. Entries are accompanied by paragraph-length descriptions.

Evaluating resources

Visit Trexler Library's Evaluating Resources page. ACCESS: Trexler Library website >Getting Started.

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.