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Outline of this guide:
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Questions? Contact Sara Swanson (704-894-2157).
Finding Books
Use library catalogs to find books, videos, government documents, journals, magazines, and newspapers. The Davidson College Library Catalog contains information about materials owned by Davidson. WorldCat lists materials held in libraries around the world. If Davidson does not have a copy of what you need, use Interlibrary Loan to request it.
When searching for books and other materials in a catalog, try searching by keyword, author, or title. You may also search by Library of Congress subject headings. To locate appropriate subject headings, do a keyword search and then browse records. Helpful subject headings include:
- Discrimination
- Equality
- Literature and society
- Marginality, Social
- Marginality, Social, in literature
- Social justice
- Social stratification
- Social structure
For a list of helpful reference materials owned by Davidson College, click here.
Finding Journals and Articles
Starting Points | Literature Databases | Other Databases |Finding the Full-Text Copy of an Article
To find journals owned by the library, go to the Library Catalog, do a subject keyword search for your topic and limit your search by format to newspapers and periodicals. Clicking on the Periodicals link in the red bar on the library catalog search page will also allow you to browse journals by subject category.
Use the Library’s online indexes and databases to find articles from scholarly journals. Depending on your research interest, you may wish to search in general databases or discipline-specific ones. Here are some suggested databases:
- Starting Points
- Academic Search Premier
(1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
- OmniFile Full Text Mega
(1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
- Literature Databases
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
(1920 to present) Indexes journal articles, essays, and books, book reviews, and critical editions of literary works published world-wide; covers all literatures in English as well as the English language, bibliography, textual studies, and the history of publishing.
- Literature Resource Center
Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
- MLA International Bibliography
(1926 to present) Indexes articles, books, and dissertations in the areas of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore.
- Other Databases
- Essay & General Literature Index
(1985 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.
- Humanities Abstracts
(1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
- JSTOR
Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note:JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.
- Project Muse
Contains full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
- Web of Knowledge
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
- Finding the Full-Text Copy of an Article
If you’ve found a citation in an online index or database:
Many of our indexes and databases contain full-text copies of the articles they index. Look first for a link to the full-text (either in HTML or PDF).
If the database does not contain a link to the full-text, look for the gray Search for Article button in the online citation. This button will lead you to the Davidson Library Catalog, which will display the holdings for the journal. Using your citation information, check to see if the library owns the appropriate journal and volume number. If it does not, you can request it from Interlibrary Loan.
If you found the citation somewhere else:
Go to the Davidson Library Catalog. Look for the red periodicals button on the right side of the page. Click on that button and enter the first few words of the journal title in the search box. Then, do a Title beginning with search. The library’s holdings for the journal will appear on the page. Using your citation information, check to see if the library owns (in print or electronic form) the volume you need. If the library does not own it, you can request the article from Interlibrary Loan.
Reference Works
Literary | Other
To find reference resources held in the Davidson College Library, enter the appropriate keywords in the library catalog and limit Material Type to Reference Resources. You may also try the Reference Universe database to see which reference works contain information on your topic.
- Literary
- Credo Reference
A collection of online reference books, including a selection of literature resources, such as The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English 3rd ed., The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, and The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature.
- A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms. Edward Quinn. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
Reference R 803 Q7d
- A Dictionary of Literary Devices. Bernard Dupriez. Trans. Albert W. Halsall. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1991.
Reference R 803 D943g-T
- Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs. Ed. Jean-Charles Seigneuret et al. 2 vols. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
Reference R 803 D5541
- Gale Literary Databases. Gale, 2001- .
Includes:
- Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
- A Handbook to Literature. William Harmon. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.
Reference R 803 H747h9
- Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary: A Compendium to More than 500 Literary, Critical, and Theatrical Movements. Ed. Helen Anderson and Jay P. Pederson. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2000.
Reference R 809.9 T971
- Other
- Encyclopedia of Disability. Ed. Gary L. Albrecht. 5 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.
Reference R 362.4 E562
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. Ed. Marc Stein. 3 vols. New York: Thomson Learning, 2004.
Reference R 306.76 E56
- Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Ed. Johon Hartwell Moore. 3 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
- Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Culture, Society, History. Ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2007.
- Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed. Edgar F. Borgatta. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.
Reference R
301.03 E561 2000
- Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Stanley Kutler. 5 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996.
Reference R
973.03 E562
- Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender. Ed. Judith Worell. 2 vols. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001.
Reference R
305.4 E56
- Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Ed. Mehmet Odekon. 3 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.
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