Sex, Gender & Religion
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Encyclopedias (good for topic-generating and recommending sources)
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society ***RECOMMENDED***
Academic press.Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
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 ***RECOMMENDED***
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 909.0976 O98e
Academic press.New Catholic Encyclopedia (2002)
Trexler Library Reference 289.03 N532c
Published by the Roman Catholic Church.Wikipedia
Written and edited by the public.
Books
Trexler Library Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.
Online books
Periodical articles
general indexes with full text. . .
Academic Search Premier ***RECOMMENDED***
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.Project Muse
Recent archive of journals from a number of academic presses.Directory of Open Access Journals
Nearly 3000 open-access peer-reviewed journals sponsored by educational institutions and other donors.subject-specialty indexes. . .
Anthropology Plus
A subscription database. Standard index for religious studies. Some full text.ATLA Religion ***RECOMMENDED***
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.
articles via interlibrary loan. . .
Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
Search engines
Popular
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.Scholarly (use with discretion)
Google Scholar
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
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.
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.
For help in writing annotated bibliographies, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab for a definition of an annotation and samples using APA and MLA styles.
For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero.
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.
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