GNED 1300: Music, Poetry and War

Research Sources

1. Finding Books

Use Quest to find books in our collection.  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.)

Encyclopedias (for background, bibliographies)

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War   STACKS DS557.7 .E533 2000

The Vietnam experience : a concise encyclopedia of American literature, songs, and films  STACKS DS557.73 .H55 1998

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history  REF E468 .H47 2000

The dictionary of the First World War   REF D510 .P66 1995

Books About Wars

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

2. Finding Poetry

There are two ways to find poems: Use Columbia Granger's World of Poetry database, or, use Quest to find anthologies of poems.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

You can search for poems by Author, Title, First Line/Last Line, Subject, and Words in Poem. You can also search for Anthologies and Biographies of poets.

Quest (The Online Catalog)

Do a subject search to find anthologies of poems.  Here are some examples of good subject headings:

3. 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.

 

 

 

IIf 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

(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.

4. 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.