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Reference guide with examples for citing sources in MLA, APA, and Chicago.
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Journal Articles (Research Databases)

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Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary resource containing a large number of peer-reviewed journals.

This is good place to start for most topics, including all sciences, religion, law, history, psychology, political science, criminal justice, literature, current events, sociology and communications.
Abstracts and full-text for most journal articles; Varies by title many from 1980s-present
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Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with an online collection of major religion and theology journals.

Citations, abstracts, and full-text (1949 - present); 1924 - present
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Archive of scholarly journal literature

Interdisciplinary journal archive of titles in the arts, botany, business, ecology, general science, history, mathematics, and the social sciences. Many journal runs go back to the 19th century and before with subject coverage going back to the medieval period and up to within 3-5 years of current (depending on journal title).; Full-text and full image; Varies by title; current within 3-5 years; Coverage is constantly expanding with the addition of more scholarly journals to the collection. Moving wall publishes to within 3-5 years of most titles that are still in publication.
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Literature, language, and folklore from all regions of the world from the late Middle Ages to the present.

Covers books, articles, and dissertations. Best place to start for language and literature research.
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Biographies, overviews, and critical analysis of literary topics, authors, and their works

Biographical sketches of over 130,000 authors and critical articles on over 2,000 authors from all times and places, and on their works. Includes essays from reference works, journals, and books. Content covers numerous centuries, mainly 20th and some 19th.; Full-text

Books @ Boatwright Library

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Many Tolkien books are in the PR6039.O32 range on B2.

To search for books in Boatwright, use the Library Catalog. Start with a keyword search or "all words." Since some of the most common words you might search for aren't actually in the subject headings -- use terms from the subject headings if have trouble locating books.

If you are looking for information on a person, you should first use that person's name in a keyword search. However, many books will have information on persons that is not evident from the information in the catalog. To find these books, you should scan the tables of contents and indexes of books in the appropriate call number area.

You can search by book Title, Author, All fields or Subject.