FINDING ARTICLES

Academic Search Premier; Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

General Science Index: Provides citations from ~250 popular and professional language science periodicals.

ERIC: Indexes research reports and journal literature in the field of education from 1966 to the present. Includes all educational levels and all aspects of education in all disciplines.

PsychInfo: PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. Coverage 1889 - the present.

MLA: MLA Bibliography covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide.

Humanities Index Citations to ~500 English-language periodicals in the areas of archaeology, classical studies, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature, and religion. Provides article citations to the major journals in these disciplines.

FINDING BOOKS

Suggestions:

1. In KEYWORD field:

Use: learning style*
Example book: Multiple intelligences in the classroom / Thomas Armstrong.LB1025.3 .A76 2000   

2. In KEYWORD field:

jung and mystic*
Example book: The mystical chorus : Jung and the religious dimension / Donald Broadribb. BL48 .B72 1995

TEXTS FOR CLASS

Writing Analytically, David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen, Third Edition

Persepolis One, Marjane Satrapi. PN6747.S245 P4713 2003.  Copy in Reserve Library.

Forbidden Knowledge, Roger Shattuck: PN56 .K64 S43 1996.     Copy in Reserve Library.

REFERENCE RESOURCES

Oxford Reference Online

Multidisciplinary database of approximately 100 dictionaries, handbooks and other reference books published by Oxford University Press. Check for included titles by broad subject area. Listed below are some titles of interest for this class.

Religion
A Dictionary of the Bible
The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

Mythology
A Dictionary of African Mythology
A Dictionary of Asian Mythology
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
A Dictionary of English Folklore
A Dictionary of Superstitions
A Dictionary of World Mythology

Print Resources (Reference)

Science (Ready Reference)

McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology : an international reference work in twenty volumes including an index. Q121 .M3 2002

Mythology (Reference)

Encyclopedia of creation myths / David Adams Leeming with Margaret Adams Leeming. BL325 .C7 L44 1994   

Man, myth & magic : the illustrated encyclopedia of mythology, religion, and the unknown / editor-in-chief, Richard Cavendish ; editorial board, C.A. Burland ... [et al.]. BF1407 .M34 1995 v. 1-9

World mythology / Roy Willis, general editor ; foreword by Robert Walter. BL311 .W66 1993    

Religion (Reference)

The Encyclopedia of religion / [editor in chief, Mircea Eliade ; editors, Charles J. Adams ... et al.]. BL31 .E46 1987 

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