The Trexler Library: Muhlenberg College

Jewish Latin America

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

Reference works (good for generating topics and recommending sources)

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
(http://0-infotrac.galegroup.com.library.muhlenberg.edu/itweb/mul_coll?db=GVRL)
Signed articles written by leading scholars in the field. Great for topic narrowing and for identifying the most important articles and books on a subject.

Authoritative secondary commentary in books. . .

Trexler Library Catalog
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > Catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

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

Authoritative secondary commentary in articles . . .

Academic Search Premier
ACCESS: Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > Databases A to Z
Standard index for peer-reviewed articles and scholarly books across the disciplines (sports, etc.).

Communication and Mass Media Complete
ACCESS: Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) >  Databases A to Z. Standard index for peer-reviewed articles on film, radio, television, internet, and media in general.

Historical Abstracts
ACCESS: Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > Databases A to Z
Standard index for peer-reviewed articles and scholarly books on Latin American history.

Index to Jewish Periodicals
ACCESS: Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > Databases A to Z
Standard index for peer-reviewed articles and scholarly books on Latin American history.

MLA
ACCESS: Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) >  Databases A to Z. Standard index for peer-reviewed articles on film and literature.

PRISMA
ACCESS: Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > Databases A to Z
Indexing and full text for peer-reviewed journals published in and about Latin America, many in Spanish and Portuguese on an array of topics including sports, etc.

RambiWeb (http://jnul.huji.ac.il/rambi/) ***RECOMMENDED***
Free index of scholarship on Jewish religion and culture.

getting to the full text of an article. . .

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.

Websites more likely to be scholarly...

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)

Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/)
From a consortium of universities in the UK, reviews websites for purposes of higher education and research.

Citing sources in Chicago or other standard citation styles

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 November 2010