Explore-A-College: Writing for College / Reading Culture

Library Research Assistance

June 2007

Finding Background Information

American Decades. 10 vols.
Ref E 169.12 .A419

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. 6 vols.
Ref E 185 .E54 2005 

Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. 3 vols.
Ref E 169.1 .E624 2001
 
Encyclopedia of Bioethics. 5 vols.
Ref QH 332 .E52 2004
 
Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture.
Ref E 169.12 .E49 2001

Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. 3 vols.
Ref GT 2850 .E53 2003
 
Encyclopedia of the Developing World. 3 vols.
Ref HC 59.7 .E52 2006
 
Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture. 4 vols.
Ref E 169.1 .G7555 2002

Native Americans [political issues] .
Ref E 93 .N32 2002

Native North American Almanac.
Ref E 77 .N37 1994

State of the World. (annual)
Ref HC 59 .S734
[2002 has an article on tourism.]

Finding Books and Articles

Academic Search Premier
Covers thousands of general magazines and scholarly journals on all topics. Includes the full-text of many articles.
 
Earlham Libraries Online Catalog  
Find books in the Earlham libraries.

JSTOR
A selective set of scholarly journals, all full-text. Scroll down on the search screen to select subject areas to search.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Provides recent full-text of newspapers from the U.S. and around the world.
 

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