Sex Gender & Religion

Sex, Gender & Religion

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Librarian
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Reference desk IM: talktotrexler

Encyclopedias (good for topic-generating and recommending sources)

Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
Academic press.

Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Trexler Library Reference 289.303 E56o
Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).

Encyclopedia of Religion
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
Published by an academic press.

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'¯an
Trexler Library Reference 297.12203 E56o
Academic press.

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Trexler Library Reference
Academic press.

New Catholic Encyclopedia (2002)
Trexler Library Reference 289.03 N532c
Published by the Roman Catholic Church.

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Written and edited by the public.

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 > Library Catalogs
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

Online books

Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/)

Periodical articles

general indexes with full text. . .

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

Project Muse
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases 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. . .

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

ATLA Religion ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for religious studies. 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 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 > Interlibrary Loan

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.

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.

Citing sources and compiling an annotated 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.

For help in writing annotated bibliographies, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/) for a definition of an annotation and samples using APA and MLA styles.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/).

Writing a source review

One strategy for writing a source review is to think of it as an amplified annotation, employing the organization described here (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/).