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Reference Materials
Reference materials can provide useful background information on your topic.
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Credo ReferenceContains a wide range of multidisciplinary reference sources in electronic form, all searchable via one search box
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Oxford Reference OnlineTwo million digitized entries across Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, spanning 25 different subject areas
Browsing the Stacks
Browsing the stacks--locating the shelves of books holding any of the above call numbers of interest--can be a great way to find sources serendipitously.
- Mythology (BL)
- History (C,D,E,F)
- Anthropology (GN)
- Legend (P)
- Religion (B)
- Folklore (GR)
- Literature (P)
- Storytelling (LB)
Searching in the Catalog
Many books of use can be found with an advanced catalog search combining one of the following subject headings and another keyword relevant to your topic.
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Scholarly Articles and Essays
Scholarly articles and essays on mythological topics can be found in the following resources:
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Cambridge Companions• Full-text, scholarly reviewed essay anthologies on a range of topics in literature, the classics, philosophy, culture, and religion
• Best for searching on particular authors, movements, eras, and works
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• Over 600 titles and 4,000 essays.
• Searchable via metadata or full content.
• Reference linking.
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ATLA• Religion and philosophy database
• Combines the premier indexing from Atla Religion Database® (Atla RDB®) with AtlaSerials® (Atlas®), one of Atla's online full-text collections of major religion and theology journals
• Full-text content from more than 340 journals
Features:
• Share options
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JSTOR• Provides full-text backfiles of many of the core research and society published journals in economics, business, history, political science, and sociology.
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• Text Analyzer
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Project Muse• Includes disciplines primarily in the humanities and social sciences – “literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies and more.”
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• Offers full-text, journal, book, and related content from over 200 not-for-profit publishers including many of the world's most distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, independent publishers, and academic departments. -
MLA International Bibliography with Full TextArticles, books, and other scholarship related to literature, language, linguistics and folklore
Features:
• Saves your recent searches
• Citation tool
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