The Trexler Library: Muhlenberg College

Sustainability: Digging Deep

Need help with your research? Contact:

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

How do I find authoritative reference articles and recommended bibliography on environmental/sustainability education?

Credo Reference
An online library of well-known reference books, received by library subscription. Good for seeing how a term, like "sustainability," is used in different disciplines. Bibliographies or recommended resources are often attached.

How do I find scholarly book-length studies about my topic?

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 > Library catalogs
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

How do I find editorial and opinion pieces about my topice?

How do I find university and college  news?

How do I find journal articles on my topic?

interdisciplinary (general) indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier 
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
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.

Google Scholar
Free index with some full text to scholarly books and journal articles. Use in conjunction with interlibrary loan.

subject-specialty indexes (scholarly). . .

ERIC
ACCESS: Trexler Library website> Databases A to Z
A subscription database for education journals and "ERIC documents."

Education Index via WilsonWeb Omnifile
ACCESS: Trexler Library website> Databases A to Z
A subscription database for education journals and "ERIC documents.

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 March 2011