HU 3900: Inquiry Seminar - Modern Religious Thought

B. Eddy

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Reference Materials

Encyclopedia Britannica - timelines, historical context
Oxford Reference Online
More online...
Print Reference Materials: Encyclopedia of the American religious experience : studies of traditions and movements / Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams, editors, Encyclopedia of religion / Editor in chief, Mircea Eliade ; editors, Charles J. Adams ... et al., etc.

Encyclopedia of the American religious experience

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Selected subject headings:

Personal Name
Atheism
Deep ecology Religious aspects.
Philosophy of nature.
Human ecology Religious aspects.
Goddesses, Greek
Women Mythology

How to Search:

Search the Library Catalog for items at WPI
WorldCat to search beyond our library
JSTOR, QuickFind, and other article databases are good places to find book reviews
Google Books - view snippets, or limited previews of copyrighted books, and full text of public domain books.

Psyche

QuickFIND - Multi-database Search for Articles & Books

Start with QuickFIND multi-database search to retrieve results from 11 databases (including the library catalog & Worldcat for books) on your topic with one search. There are 3 ways to search:

Find Articles

Filter and Follow Up...

Bibliographies can clue you in on the value of the article as well
Find an interesting author? Search for more articles or for his/her web site or within QuickFIND

All databases listed are WPI subscriptions.

Start with QuickFIND - for Databases and check out Google Scholar, a web search of scholarly sources.

Within databases and Scholar, click on FullTextFinder to track down full articles or, in most cases, options to obtain the full text. Locations could be:

Ground Floor of library for periodicals, microfilm/fiche
Founders Storage (in Library Catalog record, click Request for retrieval within one day)
Interlibrary Loan for items not at WPI

Specialized Databases

Only Finding a Citation? Getting the Full Text

Is the journal online or here in the library? Use FullTextFinder to link to full articles or retrieval options within database results or search our Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers list
Visit another library: Search WorldCat to find one
Request delivery from another library: Interlibrary Loan.

Give Credit! Cite Your Sources

Try RefWorks, to create a database of your personal references, which can be output into APA, MLA, Chicago or other citation formats for your bibliography. It integrates with Word and will help you create in-text references too.

Browsing the Library's Print Collection

Floor maps - 1st floor T 15 section is a nice place to start
Library of Congress Classification outlines call number categories for browsing
Bound journals down on Ground Floor; Current journals all the way up on 3rd!
Archives - Third Floor

Questions?

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