Exercise Using Scholarly Resources
Basic Library Tools
- OneSearch This link opens in a new windowUse this discovery tool to search most of the University Libraries' collections, including books, journal articles, newspapers, dissertations, music, and video recordings. (Ex Libris)
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowSearch for journal articles on most topics. This multi-disciplinary database is a good place to start if you don't know where else to begin. (EBSCO)
- Google ScholarProvides the ability to perform a broad search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
LibGuides Menu
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OneSearchA discovery tool that searches most of the University Libraries' collections, including books, journal articles, newspapers, dissertations, music, and video recordings.
Encyclopedias and other Background Sources
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowSearch for background information on a variety of topics published in the Oxford series of reference books. Find information on topics in the arts, sciences, history, language and literature, and more. (Oxford)
- Access Science This link opens in a new windowSearch across thousands of comprehensive encyclopedia entries covering all major science disciplines. This database also includes definitions of scientific terms, biographies of well-known scientists, a few textbooks, and Schaum's Outlines. (McGraw-Hill)
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by ISBN: 9781107023130Publication Date: 2013-11-25The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works.
Leviathan by Call Number: SH383.2 .D65 2008ISBN: 9780393331578Publication Date: 2008-07-17This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.
Encyclopedia of American literature of the sea and Great Lakes by Call Number: B2 PS169.S42 E53 2001ISBN: 9781567507706Publication Date: 2001
Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea by ISBN: 9780192863393Publication Date: 2022-12-19Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period.
If We Don't Have it
If we don't have the journal you need, you can borrow it through our Interlibrary Loan Service.
How to place a request:
- Check OneSearch to see if the library already owns the item.
- If not, Login to ILLiad using your UR netid and password or create an account if this is your first request.
- Select either Article Request, Book Request, or Book chapter request for interlbrary Loan
- Enter the information about the item
- Click Submit Request
- To request another item, click your browser's back button and change the item information
Humanities Librarian
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Marcia Whitehead
Contact:
Boatwright Library
28 Westhampton Way
804-289-8823
28 Westhampton Way
804-289-8823
Subjects: American Studies, Biography, Book Reviews, Citing Sources, Classical Studies, E-Books, English & Literature, First Year Seminar, French, German, Humanities, International Education, Language and Linguistics, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, Master of Liberal Arts, Primary Resources, Reference Sources, Rhetoric & Communication Studies, Richmond Area , Russian, Scholarly Publications, Spanish, Special Topics
