Honors Fall 2009 Research Guide

Researching the Life and Thoughts of Historical Persons

Books

• Library Catalog
  

  Use the online Library Catalog to find books and journal titles, whether in print or online format. The Library's catalog has a number of different search options: keyword and subject searches are good starting points when first exploring a topic. Search results can narrowed with facets, which appear to the right of the results. Topic, era, language are some of the available facets.

Keyword searcy:  Darwin AND letters
Subject search:  "Eliot George" AND criticism

• WorldCat
  Books that are not owned by Falvey Memorial Library can be found via WorldCat. WorldCat is an online catalog that includes the collections of most U.S. libraries as well as a large number of libraries abroad. Titles owned by the Library are tagged, titles not held by Falvey can be requested through interlibrary loan with the Borrow from another library link
• E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary Loan
  Interlibrary loan is available for books and journals that are not owned by Falvey. EZ-Borrow is generally faster than interlibrary loan, since the books come from a local library network. EZ-Borrow can also be used for books that the Library owns, but that are currently unavailable.

Reference Works

Print

• Dictionary of Scientific Biography - REF Q141.D5
• Encyclopedia of Psychology - REF BF31.E52 2000
• International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Neurology - RC334.I57

Online

• American National Biography Online
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Literature Resource Center (with Dictionary of Literary Biography)
• Scribner Writers Series
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Databases

General databases

• Academic OneFile
• Humanities Full Text
• JSTOR

Selected specialized databases in subject areas

• Historical Abstracts (History)
• America: History & Life (History)
• MLA Bibliography (English)
• Philosopher's Index (Philosophy)
• ATLA (Theology and Religious Studies)
• PsychINFO (Psychology)

Style Guides and Citation Management Software

• Research and Documentation Online.
  Guide to the major documentation styles
• Chicago Manual of Style Online
• RefWorks
  Never type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.