History of Sexuality
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 locate a thesis, and get a list of recommended books and journal articles on my topic?
Dictionary of American History
(Reference Collection, Trexler Library level A, call # 937.003 D554o)Men and Masculinities
(Reference Collection, Trexler Library level A, call # 305.3103 K49m)Women, Gender, and Sexuality
(Reference Collection, Trexler Library level A, call # 305.403 B336w)
How do I locate scholarly books and primary documents?
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.
Tip: Try a subject search in the library catalog on "sex customs"WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
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.
How do I locate peer-reviewed (scholarly) journal articles?
Academic Search Premier
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
Interdisciplinary, largely full-text.
America History & Life ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
Index to historical research about U.S. history, 1492-present. Links through "Get It" to JSTOR and Project Muse.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.JSTOR
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
Archive of scholarly journals. All disciplines are represented.
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. NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > Catalog.
articles via interlibrary loan. . .
Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > Interlibrary Loan
Web search engines, directories, and selected sites
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.
Style guides
For tips on citing print and electronic sources in the Chicago style, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.
For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/). Here is a user guide.
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