English 15S: The Family
Library & Internet Resources

BOOKS

• The Cat - Penn State University Libraries' online catalog of over 4.5 million items.
• WorldCat - Online catalog covering over 38 million items within OCLC member libraries (university, public, etc.) across the country. Register with ILLiad before ordering books from other libraries.

REFERENCE SOURCES

• Bibliography of reference sources in the PSLV Library (on the shelves in the reference section)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (Tip: Search within titles only)
• Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences

For additional articles, search the following Penn State e-resources.

• ProQuest covers 5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers. Search can be limited to scholarly journals.
  1986 to the present, some pre-1986 citations.
  Full-text: Yes/partial
• CQ Researcher explores a single current issue in depth. Each issue includes a lengthy essay with relevant quotes and statistics, a pro-con feature, a chronology, and a bibliography.
• Contemporary Women's Issues covers global information on women: 1500 titles including journals, newsletters, reports, fact sheets, and pamphlets.
  1992 to date.
  Full-text: Yes
• Gender Watch - Covers publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas including journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports.
  1970 to the present
  Full-text: Yes
• Sociological Abstracts covers over 2,600 sociology (and related disciplines) journals, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations.
  1963 to the present
  Full-text: No
• PsycINFO is the primary resource for psychology, and also covers related disciplines indexing 1300 journals from 50 countries, books and book chapters.
  1887 to the present
  Full-text: No

Consult Find Articles By Subject for other relevant LIAS databases.

To check for online availability of a journal, check the full-text electronic resources list by University Libraries. (Enter the title of the journal, not the title of the article).

Need research help?
Email:
Judy Sandt (jsandt@psu.edu)
Reference Librarian

Last updated May 2008