Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

Animals & the Sacred

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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What reference works give an overview of symbolism of various animals?

Dictionary of Mythology Folklore and Symbols (Ref Collection 398.02 J62d)

Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary (Ref Collection 304.22 O44s)

What reference works point to important primary and secondary texts?

Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Ref. Collection 913.38 B857n)

Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry (Humanities Ref Collection 016.81 G758c)

Hasting's A Dictionary of the Bible (Ref. Collection220.03 H357d)

Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in Art (Ref Collection 398.36903 W494c) ***RECOMMENDED***

Encyclopedia of Religion ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.

Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (Ref Collection 203 H357e)
See vol. 1, "Animals."

Faiths and Folklore (Ref Collection 398 H431f)

Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend (Ref Collection 398.03 F982)
References Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature.

Man Myth & Magic (Ref Collection 133 M266m)

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature by Stith Thompson (Ref Collection 398 T476m)

What reference works are there that will show how an animal name has been used in the English language over time?

Oxford English Dictionary [online]
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.

How do I locate reliable biological information about animal species?

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (Ref Collection 590.3 G895a)

How do I locate primary texts (and relevant theorists and secondary works) in library book collections?

Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
Catalog of all books in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Database > Most Popular > WorldCat
Catalog of books and in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation. Use E-ZBorrow for faster interlibrary loan.

E-ZBorrow
ACCESS: 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.

How do I locate primary texts online?

James Fraser's The Golden Bough (http://www.bartleby.com/196/)

Perseus (Tufts U.) (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html)
Greek and Roman classical texts.

How do I locate famous paintings and other art images on the web?

Artcyclopedia (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/)
Free site. Links to museum reproductions.

How do I locate poetry on the web?

Poets.org (http://www.poets.org/index.php)
From the Academy of American Poets.

How do I locate periodical articles (secondary sources) that may in turn point to primary texts?

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
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
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Archive from Stanford University of scholarly journals in all subject areas.

Project Muse
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Recent archive of journals from a number of academic presses.

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

subject-specialty indexes. . .

Art Full Text
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. May point to articles about depictions of animals in visual art.

Anthropology Plus
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for anthropology. Some full text.

ATLA Religion
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for religious studies. Some full text.

MLA
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for folklore criticism. Some full text.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. May point to references to animals in music.

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. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > ILL

What about web search engines?

Popular

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

Scholarly (use with discretion)

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.

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.

Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu/)

Citing sources in a bibliography?

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