The Jewish Experience in a Secular Age:
A History of Modern Jewish Identity
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Encyclopedias
Credo Reference
Library subscription. Several hundred online encyclopedias by reputable publishers. Good for topic-finding, narrowing, and bibliographies.Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd ed., 2007) (Trexler Library Reference Collection 296.03 E56j)
Signed entries by invited contributors. Good for topic-finding and topic-narrowing.
Secondary commentary (scholarly) and primary documents published as books
Trexler Library Catalog
Catalog of all books and primary documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
Catalog of books and primary documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.
Google Book Search
Good for primary documents pre-1923 that are out of copyright.
Secondary commentary published in scholarly journals
general indexes with full text. . .
Academic Search Premier
A subscription database. 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.JSTOR
Archive from Stanford University of scholarly journals in all subject areas.subject-specialty indexes. . .
America History & Life
A subscription database. Standard index for American history. Some full text.Historical Abstracts
A subscription database. Standard index for European history. Some full text.Index to Jewish Periodicals
A subscription database. Standard index for scholarship on Jewish religion and culture. Some full text.RambiWeb
Free index of scholarship on Jewish religion and culture.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..
articles via interlibrary loan. . .
Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
Assorted scholarly materials
Google Scholar
A citation database with selected full text of conference proceedings, working papers, and other scholarly works, some refereed. Use in conjunction with the Trexler Library Catalog to identify additional access points to full text, or request items on interlibrary loan.
Citing sources in an annotated bibliography
For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources.
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