FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Indexes relevant to your topic include:

CINAHL (via EBSCO) Indexes and provides some full text to nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing.  Off-campus access requires PLU ePass

ERIC (via EBSCO) Indexes and abstracts articles, books, theses, conference proceedings, and unpublished papers (ERIC documents) in education, 1967 to present.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  EBSCO Academic Search Premier.

EBSCO Academic Search Premier (via PLU Library Website) Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Gender Studies Database  GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. This database includes more than 552,250 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to present.

ProQuest(via PLU Library Web site) This is a family of databases that cover many topics.  Many full-text journal articles are included.  It has several full-text newspapers.

PsycInfo (via PLU Library Web site) Indexes and abstracts the international literature of psychology, 1887 to present.

Sociological Abstracts (via PLU Library Web site) Covers the fields of sociology, anthropology, and         related social science disciplines. Citations and abstracts are available for over 2,600 journals, books, conference papers, and dissertations  (1986 - present).

 

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 identifies any full-text online journals PLU has available.

REFERENCE BOOKS

Cambridge World History of Food (ref. TX353.C255 2000)
Encyclopedia of food and culture (REF GT2850.E53 2003)
Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition (ref. QP141.E526 1999)
Encyclopedia of Obesity and Eating Disorders (ref. RC552.E18C37 1994)
Growing up in America: an atlas of youth in the USA (ref. HB1323.C52U658 1998)
Handbook of nutrition and food (ref. QP141.H345 2002)
Nutrition almanac (ref. RA784.N837 2002)
Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America (REF TX349.E45 2004)
Penguin atlas of food (REF HD9000.5.M52 2003)
Statistical Handbook on Adolescents in America (ref. HQ796.S8237 1996)
Women's issues (ref. HQ1115.W6425 1997)

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (ref. BF76.7.P83 2001)
There are several copies of this Style Manual available in the Reference collection.

 

OTHER INTERESTING RESOURCES

INTERNET

Not everything you find on the Internet is good research.  For help in evaluating sources, read EVALUATING INFORMATION FROM THE INTERNET .   Below are some sources you might want to look at:

BEYOND PLU

PLU belongs to a consortium of small private colleges and universities.  This consortium includes: St. Martin's University, Northwest University, 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.  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 office ours during J-Term  are 3:00-5:00 Tuesdays & Thursdays

 
 

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