Human Evolution

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Selected Reference Sources

Barrows, Edward M.  Animal behavior desk reference: A dictionary of animal behavior, ecology, and evolution, 2nd ed.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001.
Reference 591.503 B278a

Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides access to 325 reference works, including general and subject specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, fact books, guides, companions and more from over 60 respected publishers across 17 major subject areas--all online, all searchable from one search box.

Delson, Eric, ed.  Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory, 2nd ed.  New York: Garland Pub., 2000.
Reference 599.938 E56o

Grzimek, Bernhard, ed.  Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia.  Detroit: Gale, 2004.
Reference 590.3 G895a v.1-17

Lincoln, Roger J., Geoff Boxshall and Paul Clark.  A dictionary of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 2nd ed.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Reference 574.503 L738d

Pagel, Mark, ed.  Encyclopedia of evolution.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Reference 576.803 E56o v.1-2

Rowe, Noel.  The pictorial guide to the living primates.  East Hampton, NY: Pogonias Press, 1996.
Reference 599.8 R879p

Spencer, Frank, ed.  History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia.  New York: Garland Publishing, 1997.
Reference 599.03 S745h v.1-2

Finding Books

Trexler Library Catalog

Search the Trexler Library Catalog (http://library.muhlenberg.edu) to find out what books, government publications, journals, videos, etc. the library owns.

GETTING THERE: Use the shortcut search box on the Library Homepage or Library Homepage  --  Books, Videos, Music, ... (in Find box)  --  Trexler Library Catalog

WorldCat

WorldCat is the world's largest database of library records. Use this to search practically every library in the U.S. for books on your topic. WorldCat shows which libraries hold a particular book, and you can request items from those libraries. (Use the ILL button in WorldCat to request books.) ILL can take between 10 - 14 days, so plan ahead.

GETTING THERE: Library Homepage  --  Books, Videos, Music, ... (in Find box)  --  Other Library Catalogs -- WorldCat

Finding Articles: Databases & Indexes

SEARCHING FOR ARTICLES

See a list of all databases at via the Library Homepage  --  Articles A-Z (in the Find box).

Specialized Databases

Anthropology Plus
Index to articles and essays in anthropological journals and books, from the late 19th century to the present, as maintained by the Tozzer Library of Harvard University and the Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnography.

GEOBASE
Covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings and reports from worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and paleontology. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.

PrimateLit
Provides access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage: 1940 to present. Features indexing for articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc., covering subject areas including: behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography.

PubMed
Searches Medline which is an index of medical journals sponsored by the National Library of Medicine dating back to 1966.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier
 Large and diverse database that covers most academic disciplines, including Anthropology, Biology and Zoology. Contains both scholarly and non-academic resources.

JSTOR
Searchable collections of full-text journals. JSTOR contains many significant journals in the field of Anthropology.

OmniFile (WilsonWeb)
Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content-indexing, abstracts, and full text-from six of Wilson's full-text databases, including Social Sciences Abstracts. Also covers biology, paleontology, zoology and anthropology.

ScienceDirect College Edition Health and Life Sciences
Database of 1000+ full-text journals in the areas of health and life sciences.   All journals published by Elsevier.  Coverage spans 1995 to the present.

GETTING THE ARTICLES

  1. When searching for articles, you may find the full-text of an article linked in the database.

  2. If not, you need to search the Trexler Library Catalog to see if we own the journal in which the article is published.
    • Most databases have a Get It link embedded. Click the link to check our holdings.
    • Otherwise, search the catalog by journal title or by ISSN. Verify that we have online, print, or microform access to the year/volume you need.
  3. If we do not own the journal you need, request the article via Interlibrary Loan.
    • Some databases have a Request on Interlibrary Loan link embedded. Click the link to fill out the form. Click Submit.
    • Otherwise, use the Interlibrary Loan Journal Article Request Form (Library Homepage  --  ILL (in the Services & Forms box)  --  Articles request form). Fill out the form with as much information as possible. Ask for help, if you have questions.

Citing Your Sources

The Chicago manual of style, 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Reference Desk Reserve 808.027 C632m (at Reference Desk)

Trexler Library handout on using Chicago style: http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/reshelp/chicago_example.pdf
This and other style guide handouts available from the library website.  Library Homepage --  Citation Guides (in the Research Help box).

Writer's Handbook (Writing Center, University of Wisconsin--Madison)
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html

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