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Themes in Modern European History

***Titles marked with the Muhlenberg  M are "most recommended" resources.***

Reference works

generally. . .

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org)
Not itself a scholarly source, but rather a repository of common knowledge. Good for topic-narrowing.

literary biography. . .

Gale Literary Index (http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex)
A master index to most of the literary biography sketchbooks listed below.

Dictionary of Literary Biography M (Ref. 810.920 D554)
Dictionary of National Biography(Ref. 920 D5543)
European Writers (Ref. 809.20 E89w)
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 M (Ref. 809.03 L776c)
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (Ref. 809.034 N714)
Contemporary Literary Criticism (Ref. 809.04 C761)

other biography. . .

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (Ref. 270.603 O98e)

Books

The following online catalgos can be found by visiting the Trexler Library Home Page - Find - Books,Videos,Music.

Trexler Library Catalog  
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

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 M
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 

Journal articles pertaining to this subject area can be accessed from home or campus by visiting the Trexler Library Home Page - Find - Articles A-Z.

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier M 
A good starting place for journals, and includes the full text of about 4000 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.

Omnifile (WilsonWeb)
Includes extensive full text, from both popular and scholarly periodicals.

subject-specialty indexes. . .

Historical Abstracts
The standard index for modern European history. Some links to full text.

MLA
The standard index for literary criticism.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, go to the library catalog and do a Journal Title search. This will let you know if the library has it full text, in paper or on microform.

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered by following this path: Trexler Library Home Page - Services & Forms - ILL - Articles .

Web search engines, directories, and selected sites

search engines and directories. . .

Google (http://www.google.com)
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.

HotBot (http://www.hotbot.com)
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers. Advanced search offers more precision than Google.

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
A 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 the library catalog to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text or paper copy.

Librarian's Index to the Internet M (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.

web sites. . .

Voice of the Shuttle  (http://vos.ucsb.edu/)
A gateway to scholarly resources in the humanities (i.e. literature and philosophy).

Evaluating resources

View a checklist of criteria for evaluating web and print resources by going to the library webpage, Evaluating Resources.

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources in a bibliography according to the Chicago (Turabian) style or MLA style, follow the path Trexler Library Home Page - Research Help - Citation Guides.

Also you can consult with Writing Analytically which can be found in the library on reserves at the reference desk (808.042 R816w).