Instructor: Professor Smallman
Librarian: Jennifer Dorner

STUDENT HELP
Ask A Librarian
Research Survival Guide
Off Campus Access to Library Databases
Citing Sources
Selecting Sources

FINDING ARTICLES

Ebscohost (online): provides citations and full text articles, and some databases reference materials from books and pamphlets. http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_A-K.html#e

Anthropological Literature: "describes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly, Anthropological Literature indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages from the late 19th century to the present." http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_A-K.html#a

Fuente Academica
Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full text coverage (including PDF) for more than 150 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=latina

Historical Abstracts: Citations and abstracts for articles from 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, the social sciences, and related humanities. Includes citations to new books reviewed in key English-language history and review journals and to relevant
dissertations. Coverage: 1969 - present. http://serials.abc-clio.com/

Grove Music: Online edition of the The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition. Includes full text of Dictionary articles supplemented with sound clips, images and links to relevant web materials. http://www.grovemusic.com/index.html

HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Provides citations for articles on politics, history, and culture published in Latin American journals. We stopped buying this in 1998 but good for historical perspective. Z1605 .H16. 2nd Floor Reference.

Music Index (online): Citations and indexing drawn from 640 international music periodicals Coverage: 1979. http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_L-Z.html#m

Art Full Text: provides indexing and abstracting of art periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals." http://wilsonweb2.hwwilson.com/autologin/

Grove’s Dictionary of Art. "The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study." http://www.groveart.com/index.html?authstatuscode=200

FINDING JOURNALS

All journals are shelved with the books, except the current year. Current journals are shelved on the Third floor. Look at map: http://www.lib.pdx.edu/about/floormaps/3rdfloormap.shtml

To find the journals you must use the catalog (VIKAT) to locate their call numbers. http://vikat.pdx.edu/

FINDING BOOKS

To find books use keyword search. Go to our catalog (VIKAT) at http://vikat.pdx.edu/. Click on keyword. Type in words. Put and between words.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN:

If you don't find an article or book at our library you may order the item through Interlibrary Loan at: http://www.lib.pdx.edu/services/ill/illindex.html

ON REFERENCE

Encyclopedias covering Music and/or Latin America

ML100 .G16 Vol. 2. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean (2nd Floor Reference Shelves).

E54.5 .D53 1993 . Dictionary of Indian Tribes of the Americans. Reference.(2nd Floor Reference Shelves).

E59 .P42 S3613 2000.The Ancient Americans. A Reference Guide to the Art, Culture and History of Pre-Columbian North and South America. (2nd Floor Reference Shelves).

F1406 .E53 1996 Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. (2nd Floor Reference Shelves).

GN307 .E53 1991 Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Vols. 7 & 8. (2nd Floor Reference Shelves).

GN307 .E52 1996. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (4 volumes).(2nd Floor Reference Shelves).

GT3930 .F65 1992. Folklore of World Holidays. (2nd Floor Reference Shelves).

N6502. E53 1999. Encyclopedia of Latin American & Caribbean Art.(2nd Floor Reference Shelves).

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