Background Research
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowSearch the full-text of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and other full-text reference books. Access to individual reference titles is also available from the Bertrand Library catalog.
Suggested Credo articles:
- King, Rodney - Gale Biographies: Popular People
- Plantation - Encyclopedia of American Studies
- Slavery - The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
- Simone, Nina - The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
- Wheatley, Phillis - The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History
- Slave Culture and Consciousness - Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History
- Plantation Archaeology - Encyclopedia of Archaeology
- Atlantic Slave Trade - Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
This list is by no means complete or exhaustive, just given to demonstrate how valuable these full-text reference resources can be!
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Biography in Context This link opens in a new windowThis database contains biographies from reference sources as well as full-text articles from periodicals, allowing you to search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
Recommended Databases
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WorldCat Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowSearch for books, articles, and more that are held by Bucknell and beyond.
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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowOne of the most comprehensive databases in the social sciences, Sociological Abstracts includes coverage of fields including anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Includes abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, books, and book reviews.
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowContains citations, abstracts, and some full text of scholarship on the history of the world from 1450 to the present.
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Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new windowAn excellent resource for beginning to develop a topic, GIC organizes its content around specific topics. "Browse Issues and Topics" to access multimedia portal pages on some of the world's most important issues.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAn archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProvides full text to nearly 200 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
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ARTstor This link opens in a new windowThis searchable repository of over 1.6 million high quality digital images offers tools for viewing, sharing, and saving visual materials. Although its strengths are visual art and architecture, Artstor includes images that are useful in both the humanities and the sciences.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowMLA is the primary research database for literary studies. It indexes books, journal articles, and other materials from 1963 to the present concerning literature, folklore, linguistics, modern languages, and the dramatic arts.
