FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes and abstracts provide the most efficient subject access to journals and periodicals.

EBSCO (via PLU Library Home Page) 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.

Lexis/Nexis (via PLU Library Home Page) Access to a range of news, business, legal, and reference information. It is particularly strong in its news coverage, featuring mostly full-text articles from newspapers around the world.

ProQuest (via Library Website)Provides access to several newspapers including the Seattle and Tacoma papers and the New York Times back to 1851.
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodicals are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system.  Use Journals at PLU to identify 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 interfiled with the books in the main collection on the second (J- Z) and third (A- H) floors.  Journals at PLU also identifies any journals we have available fulltext online.

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Articles of incorporation and bylaws. (ref. LD4461.P3175A7)
Lamp and the cross; sagas of Pacific Lutheran University, from 1890 to 1965 (ref. LD4461.P322S3)
 

OTHER INTERESTING SOURCES

Educating for service : Pacific Lutheran University, 1890-1990 (LD4461.P322N6x 1990)
Gladiators; A Chronicle Of PLU Sports (GV691.P32M32)
Mooring mast (LH1.P33M66x)  Indexed in PLU Library Catalog
Saga (LD4461.P325)
 

INTERNET RESOURCES

PLU Archives and Special Collections (http://www.plu.edu/~archives/)
 

BEYOND PLU

PLU's library may not own all of the materials you want to use.  You may either order them from Interlibrary Loan or go to a local library personally.  We are part of a consortium of libraries that includes: Northwest University, St. Martin's College, University of Puget Sound, Seattle Pacific University, and Seattle University.  You may use your PLU ID card to check out materials from these libraries.  If you wish to order from Interlibrary Loan, be sure to allow sufficient time for the materials to arrive.
 
 

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.

 
 
 

http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/seeger101.html
 
 

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