Selected Resources in
ENGL221—Research
& Writing
February 14, 2005
PLU
Library--Gail Egbers
535-8869/egbersgl@plu.edu
BOOKS: Our computerized catalog provides access to the
materials in our library. Use the Library of Congress Subject
Headings to identify the best subject headings for your topic.
Some topics that might be of interest:
AIDS (Disease) ---Africa.
Islam and secularism
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --
Press coverage
Israel -- Foreign relations ---United
States
Sex role in motion pictures
Computers -- Social aspects
Video games -- Psychological aspects
Violence in mass media
Cosmology
Autism in children
Norway -- Foreign relations -- 1905-
Separatist movements
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --
Political and social views
FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:
Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to
journals, magazines, and newspapers. Some of these indexes are
print and some electronic. Access the electronic resources from
the PLU library home page: (http://www.plu.edu/~libr).
Some electronic resources require a username and password. To
locate articles on your topic use:
Arts & Humanities Search: A
citation index referencing 8795 of the world’s leading arts and
humanities journals. Requires PLU ePass username and
password.
Contemporary Women’s
Issues: Indexes articles from international journals
on women and women's studies, 1992 to present. Requires PLU ePass
username and password.
JSTOR is an
archival database with 117 core scholarly journals in the arts, social
sciences, sciences and 7 general science journals starting with the
very
first issues, many of which date from the 1800s and some even to the
1600s. JSTOR provides the full text (in PDF format) of all
journal content. You can retrieve specific articles, browse individual
journals, or search by topic. As this is an archival service, current
issues (usually the latest 3 to 5 years) are NOT available. Off-campus
access requires PLU ePass username and password.
EBSCOhost:
A multi-disciplinary database that indexes roughly 4,500 journals,
magazines, and newspapers with 3,600 titles in full text. Of those,
nearly 2,600 titles are full text scholarly (peer reviewed)
publications. This academic database provides full text journal
coverage
for nearly all academic areas - including social sciences, humanities,
natural sciences, and education.
ERIC
(EBSCOhost) Indexes and abstracts articles, books, theses, conference
proceedings, and unpublished papers (ERIC documents) in education, 1967
to present. Some full text is available for selected journals when
searching simultaneously with the Academic Search Elite database.
PAIS International:
Indexes and abstracts international publications of all kinds in the
social sciences and public policy, from the mid-1970s to present.
Requires PLU ePass username and password.
PsycINFO:
Indexes and abstracts the international literature of psychology, 1887
to present. Off-campus access requires PLU ePass username and password.
LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:
Use Journals at PLU
to obtain the call number of the journal you need. Current issues
of journals are shelved on the first floor. Older issues (bound
volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with
the books. Journals at PLU
also
gives you access to our full-text periodicals.
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REFERENCE
BOOKS
Encyclopedia of AIDS: a
social, political, cultural, and scientific record of the HIV epidemic
ref. RA644.A25E5276x 1998
Encyclopedia of Islam
and the Muslim world REF BP40.E525 2004
Encyclopedia of
psychology ref. BF31.E52 2000
Encyclopedia of the
Vietnam War: a political, social, and military history ref.
DS557.7.E53 1998
Encyclopedia of
violence, peace & conflict ref. HM886.E53 1999
Encyclopedia of women
and gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society
on gender ref. HQ1115.E43 2001
Great debates at the
United Nations: an encyclopedia of fifty key issues 1945-2000
(ref. KZ4968.G67 2001)
History of Norway: from
the ice age to the age of petroleum (ref. DL448.H57x 1995)
Islamic world: past and
present REF DS35.53.I86 2004
BEYOND
PLU
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consortium of small private colleges and universities. This
consortium includes: St. Martin's College, Northwest College, Seattle
Pacific University, Seattle University, and University of Puget
Sound. You may check materials out from these libraries using
your
PLU ID.
You may also
order articles and books from PLU's Interlibrary Loan (Most libraries
won't loan reference books). Staff at the Reference Desk will
assist you with your ILL orders.
| If you have questions
while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or
make
an appointment with me for personal research assistance. My
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