English 273/373: Exploring Literacy in Lives and Communities

Selected Resources, A.C. Buehler Library

 


Finding Books

  • Use the I-Share Catalog to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 64 other Illinois academic and research libraries. Enter relevant key words, or to be more specific, enter your subject as a Browse Subject term in the search box.
  • Sample Browse Subject terms:

Literacy- social aspects

Literacy- United States History

Literacy- case studies

  • Sample Keyword search. Go to the Guided Keyword screen and enter a keyword or phrase:

    hispanic AND literacy

Cultural literacy

literacy AND schooling

  • Ordering books from other libraries ~ Don't limit yourself solely to Elmhurst Library's collection. Search all 65 member libraries by clicking on "Repeat search in All I-Share Libraries" at the top of the page. Order your books as soon as possible: titles can take between 7-10 days to arrive.
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Finding Scholarly Articles in our Databases

Education Databases

Humanities Databases

  • Project Muse ~full text of over 200 humanities and the social sciences journals articles, from 1996 to the present.

  • JSTOR ~ JSTOR collects titles generally up to the year 2000 if available. 21st century journals are not in this database. All full text.

General Databases

  • Academic Search Premier ~generalist database with some of the most current journal articles, but contains mostly mass-media resources, not as many scholarly sources. Some full text available.

  • Periodical Abstracts ~ general and academic journals on business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and others, from 1987-present. Selected full text.

 

So you found an article in one of our databases, but it's not full-text. Now what?

Don't fret. Look for these buttons: , or , or this line of text: (Find this resource with SFX) next to the article citation on the search screen. Clicking on this will take you to a list of our full-text sources that carry the journal, if we have it.

 

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Internet Resources

These sites are best used as starting points to help you find general information about your subject.. These sites also have links to other related web sites. Note: online web sites and e-journals must be reviewed as to content, accuracy and authority.

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Evaluating & Citing Internet Resources


Created 10/23/2002, last modified 1/8/2006 by J. Hill, Assistant Librarian.