Reference Librarian
Amy Witzel
Contact:
180 Berry (Research & Learning)
HB 6025 Baker Berry Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
HB 6025 Baker Berry Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: (603) 646-0790
Key Reference Resources - Overviews for Getting Started
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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World by Publication Date: 2008The Encyclopedia of the Modern World delves into the period from 1750 to the present, providing special attention to social, economic, cultural and political topics applicable to the time. -
Cambridge Histories OnlineExtensive series, particularly strong in political and cultural histories. -
The Oxford Companion to British History by ISBN: 0199677832
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Gale Literary DatabasesComprising the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Contemporary Authors, this resource includes short critical biographies of authors from all nationalities and eras.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of British LiteratureA survey of the literature of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in all major literary languages.
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A Dictionary of Hinduism (Oxford University Press)Covers all aspects of Hinduism, including practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religious texts
Dig Deeper - Discover Scholarly Books and Articles
- To find books (films, journal & newspaper subscriptions, databases) within Dartmouth's collection, start with our library catalog.
- Books can provide extensive information on topic, and its broader context, that a short article simply can't address.
- Library catalog records are brief (publication info, along with our call number or link to our online provider.) Keep your searches simple, as there's not much to match against.
- Tracking down a specific book chapter or journal article? Search our catalog by title for the book or journal that contains the chapter or article.
- More searchable content means larger, less precise result sets
- You are at the mercy of whatever wording the author used. Be creative in search terminology variations
- Improve precision with quotation marks, to force a phrase search. ["Emily Dickson" is very different than Emily Dickinson]
- Too many results? Try limiting to the past five or ten years, and then trust those articles' bibliographies to point you to important earlier research.
- Still too many results? Try limiting your search to the document title field, or abstract field if available (check for advanced search options). This will eliminate some good results, but usually if the citation or abstract contains your search term, then the overall document is likely to be relevant.
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Dartmouth Library Search (home page)Broad, but imprecise. By default, searches across our library catalog as well as many full-text article & book collections. Excludes searching bibliographic databases (other than our catalog). Also excludes some full-text databases, particularly those we get through Ebsco.
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JSTORProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, biology, ecology, and other fields of the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
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Project MuseFull-text archive of selected scholarly books journals in the humanities and social sciences. Advanced search menu allows limiting to specific disciplines.
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ProQuest Ebook CentralNote that access rights vary from title to title. Some allow only one user at a time. Others allow unlimited access.
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Ebsco Ebook CollectionNote that access rights vary from title to title. Some allow only one user at a time. Others allow unlimited access.
These cover more than we own here at Dartmouth, but point you to scholarship in specific disciplines.
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ATLA religion databaseConsists of searchable database of citations (1949-present) to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews in the fields of religious and theological studies. Journals representing all the major religious faiths, major denominations, and numerous language groups are included.
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Bibliography of Asian studiesMultidisciplinary coverage of western-language periodical articles, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, etc. pertaining to east, southeast, and south Asia. Covers 1971 to the present.
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Historical abstractsHistorical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)
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MLA international bibliographyThe most comprehensive index of scholarship in literature, language, folklore, film, new media, and rhetoric and composition. Covers articles in periodicals, books, and book chapters. Does not index book reviews.
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Sociological abstractsAbstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1952 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
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Women's studies internationalBroad multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly journal articles, books, book essays on gender studies.
Find a journal article or book chapter we don't own, or only have in print? Request a scanned PDF via DartDoc, our interlibrary loan service.
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DartDocRequest articles or book chapters in Dartmouth's print collection, or not owned by Dartmouth