FE138/JA130/PA130 Interpreting Asian Cultures

Library Research Guide

Library instruction provided for Prof. Joan Ericson’s Block 1-2, 2009 class.

Is This a Scholarly Source?

Article 1

Article 2

Evaluating Your Sources

Many of the Tutt Library databases index only scholarly, peer reviewed journal articles but some include articles from popular magazines as well. Some of the databases provide a means of limiting your search to scholarly, peer reviewed journals, others don’t. Please review the Vodka Ad Test criteria for determining if an article is from a scholarly journal.

Vodka Ad Test from Colorado College Tutt Library

Critically Analyzing Information Sources from Cornell University Libraries

Finding Books

• Search the Tiger Catalog for books available in Tutt Library.

Search TIGER for Keyword Title Author Subject Journal Title Go

Try searching japan* and popular cultur*.

• Search Prospector for books available from academic and public libraries in Colorado. Materials can come in as few as three days.

• Search Google Books to identify books by words in the text.

Finding Journal Articles

Google Scholar

Academic Search Complete

Coverage: 1865 - current

Large database with extensive full text access to journals, in addition to abstracts and indexing. Subject coverage is general and broad.

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 0-5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Some titles include current issues while others have a moving wall imposed on them.

SocINDEX

Coverage: 1895 - current

Indexes core sociology journals dating back to 1895. More focused on sociology as a discipline than Sociological Abstracts.

Humanities International Complete

Coverage: 1929 - current

A comprehensive humanities database, with almost 500 full text titles and indexing and abstracting for more than 1,700 titles. Subject areas include (but are not limited to) literature, philosophy, the arts, history, culture-oriented and multi-disciplinary humanities titles with some coverage going back as far as 1929. This database replaces Humanities Abstracts.

AnthroSource

Coverage: 1888 -

AnthroSource is an online resource for core journals in the field of anthropology, developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). One may access complete archives of all AAA journals and current issues of 11 of the AAA's most popular journals, including American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist.

Finding Journal Articles in Subject Specific Databases

Try searching a subject specific database from Databases by Subject for more articles from individual disciplines.

For example, try searching Social Sciences Abstracts listed under Databases for Political Science, for the topic japan* and foreign policy.

Finding Full Text Versions of Articles

When searching article indexing databases, sometimes the full text of the article you need is not provided to you by the database. Or you have identified a citation in a bibliography or footnote and need to find the full text. There are two ways of finding the full text of any article that you need.

1. Check Find Journals to see if Tutt Library subscribes to an electronic version of your journal or magazine or if we own databases which may have your article in full text. Find Journals a.k.a Tutt Link is available next to the citations in most of our databases.
2. Request an ILLiad/Interlibrary Loan of your article directly from your database (use button or hotlink) or log into ILLiad and fill out an Interlibrary Loan Request Form. (Articles can come in as few as 24-48 hours.) You must be registered with ILLiad for either method to work – see First Time User Registration for Interlibrary Loan.

Citing Your Sources

How to Cite Sources?

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers: New York : MLA, 2003.
PE1478 .M57 2003 (1st Floor North-Ref Desk, 1st Floor North-Reference, Permanent Reserves – Circ, Tutt North Basement)

Additional Assistance

Contact Reference Desk, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m., x6662, IM=tuttlibrarian
Contact Daryl Alder, Interim Interdisciplinary Programs Librarian, x6669, Tutt Library 201
dlindsay-alder@coloradocollege.edu, IM=tuttalder