First Year Seminar:

GNED 1300  Understanding America

 

Sources: All of these are available from the library’s website: http://lib.trinity.edu/ 

Click on DATABASES

Newspapers:

            Newspaper Abstracts*

            Newspaper Source8

Popular Periodicals:

            Readers Guide*

Middle-high brow periodicals:

Academic Search Premier [Also indexes up scholarly (peer-reviewed, academic) journals]8

Article First*

Examples:  Political interest magazines, such as Dissent, Mother Jones, The Progressive, Tikkun (all liberal/left), or National Review, American Spectator, New American, Commentary (all conservative/right); science magazines such as Scientific American and Smithsonian; general interest titles such as Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Utne Reader, Ms., New Yorker.

Academic Periodicals:

            Academic Search Premier8

            Social Sciences Abstracts*

            PAIS International*

            Article First *

Government Documents:

            GPO Monthly Catalog*

            GPO Access

            PAIS International*

            QUEST (Trinity’s online catalog)

Academic edited volume & Academic monograph:

            PAIS *

            QUEST (Trinity’s online catalog)

Other tips:

·        Try the QUICK SEARCH option on the library web site to search multiple databases at once

·        Try browsing recent print issues, located in Java City and current periodicals area on 2^nd floor

·        * These use a common search engine, First Search  

·         8 These use a common search engine, EBSCO Host

Other Web Sites

Citation guides: http://lib.trinity.edu/research/citing/index.shtml

Citation Machine: http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php

Diane Graves, University Librarian   diane.graves@trinity.edu    x8166
April 1, 2004