Welcome to our research page!
Welcome to the research page for UNIV 200! This page is a great starting place, but is by no means comprehensive. I've placed a number of resources on here to get your group started, but you might also want to consider exploring the following:
- Other subject guides on the library's website. Think about the academic subjects that your topic encompasses and explore the databases on those subject pages.
- Take advantage of Interlibrary Loan/Get It, as it will allow you to request any books or articles that Bucknell doesn't own.
- The Worldcat Library Catalog, from the search box above. This will help you find books and other materials to give you background on your topic.
- Google's Advanced Search page. This may help you find academic podcasts, videos of lectures from other universities, and so on.
- Search Spotify or iTunes/Apple Music for podcasts.
- Make a research appointment with Mary or with another subject librarian. We can help you find the sources you need to complete any research project.
- Start your research EARLY and scaffold your approach. This is not the kind of project that will allow last minute work.
Getting Started
- 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.
Recommended Databases
- WorldCat Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowSearch for books, articles, and more that are held by Bucknell and beyond.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProvides full text to nearly 200 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Primary Sources about Slavery
- Born in Slavery: Slave NarrativesBorn in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
- Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new windowIncludes collections from the U.S. and Europe on the worldwide movement for the abolition of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
- Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice 1490-2007 This link opens in a new windowIncludes books, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, health and family life.
- American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922 This link opens in a new windowFeatures the digital edition of the American Antiquarian Society’s holdings of slavery and abolition materials, with more than 3,500 works published over more than 100 years. Materials include books, pamphlets, and ephemera.
