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***Titles marked with the Muhlenberg M are "most recommended" resources.***
Reference works
American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature M
(Ref. Collection 016.9 C946 1995)
Recommends important monographs and collections for an array of topics.Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org)
Not itself a scholarly source, but rather a repository of common knowledge. Good for topic-narrowing. Reveals scholarly debates on a topic.
Books
The following online catalgos can be found by visiting the Trexler Library Home Page
Finding Books
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
Finding
ArticlesPeriodical Databases &
Indexes.
general indexes with full text. . .
Academic Search Premier M
A 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.
Omnifile (WilsonWeb)
Includes extensive full text, from both popular and scholarly periodicals.
subject-specialty indexes. . .
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Shows who's citing whom.Historical Abstracts M
The standard index for modern Asian and European history. Some links to full text.
getting to the full text. . .
Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, follow this path to see if the journal is available online or in print in Trexler Library: Trexler Library Home Page
articles via interlibrary loan. . .
Finding
ArticlesGetting a Copy of an Article.
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 our Journal Locator (see above) to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text.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
View a checklist of criteria for evaluating web and print resources by following the path Trexler Library Home Page
Research Help
Citing sources
For online step by step directions on writing a
paper, consult the University of Richmond's Writer's Web (http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html).
For tips on citing print and electronic sources in the Chicago style, follow the path
Trexler Library Home Page
Research HelpCitation
Guides.
Visit Annotated Bibliographies - Chicago Style M (http://lis.dickinson.edu/Library/Research/CitingRes/ChicAnnotated.html#qbib_chic) for some suggestions on ways to construct an annotation.
| If you have any questions about
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