Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

Francophone Cultures of Africa and the Caribbean

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
IM (AIM, Yahoo, MSN): refcannon
Reference desk IM: talktotrexler

Search engines

generally . . .

Google (http://www.google.com)

French language. . .

Google France (http://www.google.fr)
HotBot France (http://www.hotbot.fr/)
Advanced search allows precise positioning of search terms
Foreign Language Search Engines Galore (http://www.bizforms.com/search.html)
Tiscali (http://www.tiscali.fr/)

regional . . .

allafrica.com (http://allafrica.com/)
Country Specific Search Engines (http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/searchcountry.html)

selective . . .

Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/)

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 ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Database > Most Popular > 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
NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > ILL > E-ZBorrow
A catalog of books and documents in the libraries of PALCI, to which Muhlenberg College belongs. Submit interlibrary loan requests here for rapid delivery.

Articles in French and English

Anthropology Plus
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
The standard scholarly index for anthropology. French and English.

LexisNexisAcademic
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Contains many French-language newspapers.

News and Newspapers Online(http://library.uncg.edu/news/)
A portal to newspapers worldwide.

Sociological Abstracts
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
French and English. Sociology journals.

Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/)
Nearly 3000 open-access peer-reviewed journals sponsored by educational institutions and other donors.

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 catalog to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text.

getting to the full text. . .

In any of the library databases, 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 > ILL

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.