GNED 1300: Identity & Integrity

Research Sources

Note: unless a separate link is provided below, you can access the electronic reference tools via the library's
Databases web page.  Those sources with a call number are located in the Coates Library.

1. Finding Books

Use Quest to find books in our collection.  Other encyclopedias can be found by doing a keyword search for your subject word(s) and "encyclopedia?".  (The question mark looks for singular or plural forms of the word.)

Reference Books (for background, bibliographies)

Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science  REF BF 31 E52 2001

Encyclopedia of Bioethics   REF QH 332 E52 1995 (5 vol.)

Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture  REF E 169.12 E49 2001

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender  REF HQ 1115 E43 2001

Scholarly Books

Use subject headings to find books that have been categorized under the same term; examples:

Self	Androgyny (psychology)
Body, Human	Postmodernism
Identity (Psychology)	Psychology, Religious
Personality	Gender identity
Sex differences	Human cloning

 

Use Keyword Search to combine concepts: 

 

 

Use truncation to look for all forms of a word root ( biolog? for "biology," "biological")
[Note that Quest uses the ? sign; most other databases use the asterisk *]

 

2. Finding Journal Articles

Use appropriate journal databases from the library's Databases web page.  Suggestions for different disciplines are found via the library's "Find Resources by Subject" page.  Examples include:

Academic Search Premier

Interdisciplinary index to several thousand academic journals and popular periodicals, much of it in full text.  Limit your results to scholarly journals with the checkbox on the search page.

 

Humanities Abstracts

Covers several hundred core titles in literature, philosophy, religion, etc.  Less full text available here than in Academic Search Premier, but note that we own the majority of journals in this index.

 

Social Sciences Abstracts

Covers core titles in anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology, and sociology.  Some full text, but we own a large number of the journals in this index.

 

Contemporary Women's Issues

Index to contemporary women’s issues on health and human rights in over 150 countries. Coverage includes development, education, family life, gender equity, health, human rights, legal status, lesbian concerns, pay equity, politics, reproductive rights, sociology, violence and exploitation, and the workplace. Some full-text sources.

 

PsycINFO

Our most comprehensive index to psychological research.

 

BasicBIOSIS

A primary index for biological literature, both popular and scholarly.  Includes some full-text articles.

If the article listed in the index is not linked to full text, check the journal title (not the article title) in the library's Journals database (one of the top buttons on the library home page).  This service indicates if the library has a print subscription or if the article may be in full-text format in another database to which we subscribe.  For example, a search to find the journal Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations shows it is found online from 1999 forward in three different databases:

(Also, you can currently click on the TOUR icon after the citation on your database results screen, which will save you a couple of steps.  This is a service we are testing with some databases.)

Does Trinity not have any access to the journal you need?   We will get a copy of a journal article (or borrow a book) from another library for you, almost always at no charge.  But be prepared to wait about 7-10 days on average for us to receive the item.  Use ILLiad to request an item we don't own.

3. Compiling the Bibliography

First, cite every idea you use from one of your readings!  Avoid plagiarism and also let your professor know which creative ideas are yours.

Second, use the proper citation format.  The MLA citation style is commonly used in the humanities.  Online citation examples can be found here.

You may want to use our new bibliography management software, RefWorks.  RefWorks can store your citations, automatically format them into any style desired, and print a reference list for you.  You can save references from many databases, such as Academic Search Premier, and export them directly from your search results into a folder in RefWorks.