Religion Popular Culture

Religion & Popular Culture

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

How do I locate topic ideas and recommendations for secondary sources?

Encyclopedia of Religion
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.

Internet Movie Database ( http://imdb.com/)
A good place for filmography and popular reviews.

Encyclopedia of Television (Reference Collection 384.5503 E56o)

How do I located scripts, lyrics, audiovisual materials, and secondary support in books?

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

WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Database > Most Popular > WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

NOTE: Requests for AV items (only available from other LVAIC colleges) must go through your professor. These materials would be available for one week and would be in-library use only.

How do I locate periodical articles (popular reviews and scholarly criticism) on my topic?

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. . .

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

Communication and Mass Media Complete
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for studies on television and film. Some full text.

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

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for music history and theory. Some full text.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Text at Trexler 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.