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B. Finding Books in the Library Catalog
Search the Dartmouth library catalog to locate books, journals, and other items in the collections of all the Dartmouth libraries. Search by subject (using Library of Congress subject headings) or by keyword; you can also search for specific works by author, or by title.

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C. Finding Journal and News Articles Using Indexes

Articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers can be found using article indexes (searchable databases of article records). In many cases these indexes link through to full-text articles (look for the ArticleLinker icon); if not, use the Library's Catalog to locate the source (i.e. journal, magazine) of the article. Note that the Catalog does not contain records for individual articles.

Not sure where to start? try Search 360 to search multiple article databases with one search.

Article not available at Dartmouth? Try DartDoc (or for more information, see the Getting Items Not Available at Dartmouth section of this course guide).

GEOBASE Multidisciplinary database covering physical and human geography, geology, ecology, and related areas. International in scope, a good choice for global topics. JSTOR Contains the complete archives of core scholarly journals in several disciplines, digitized and fully searchable from the first issues, in many cases dating back to the 1800s. Search in individual journals or disciplines, or across collections such as Geography, Public Policy and Administration, or Ecology. Web of Science Web of Science indexes about 8000 journals in all subject areas.This index is unique in that it tells you who has cited a particular paper, which is useful as a way to find related papers, and to track the influence of a particular paper. You can also search by topic, and the index is very up-to-date. Especially strong in the sciences and interdisciplinary fields. Coverage varies; journals in the social sciences are indexed back to 1956; science journals back to 1945. Academic Search Premier an all-purpose, multidisciplinary database that you may already be familiar with. Wilson Web Databases: Select any combination of subfiles to search. General Science Abstracts Indexes about 250 popular and scholarly science and multidisciplinary journals. Also indexes articles on science topics from the New York Times. Covers 1984- present. Readers Guide to Periodical Literature Indexes the New York Times, the NYT Book Review and the NYT Magazine, as well as popular magazines like Time, Newsweek, Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Environment, National Geographic, the Smithsonian, and Scientific American. Humanities Abstracts Indexes about 350 popular and scholarly journals in the humanities including history, philosophy, literary & social criticism. Include the Humanities & Social Sciences Retro file for access to years from 1907 - 1984. Social Sciences Index Indexes about 350 journals in disciplines such as environmental studies, geography, public policy and economics. Include the Humanities & Social Sciences Retro file for access to years from 1907 - 1984. Book Review Digest Provides descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with complete book review citations and all book reviews from other Wilson indexes. Books appear with all their reviews grouped together. America: History and Life A comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database content is drawn from over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. The coverage of America: History and Life also includes citations to book reviews and dissertations. LexisNexis Academic Universe Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is a web-based news and business information service that contains more than 13,500 sources. Search Lexis-Nexis for news coverage (regional, national and international), broadcast transcripts, news wire service reports, industry and trade journals, and congressional news coverage. Search LexisNexis Environmental for news and journal coverage of environmental topics.

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D. Government Documents
Dartmouth College has been a depository for U.S. federal documents for more than 100 years. Federal documents are often a source of important historical information for all areas of American life.

CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Electronic Library
Provides a strong starting point for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Includes web-based access to a number of Congressional Quarterly publications which cover the activity of the U.S. congress as well as provide reporting and analysis on issues in the news and under consideration by Congress. Also, see the Dartmouth Library's Law: A Research Guide for more detailed information on researching legislative issues.

THOMAS
Since 1995, the Library of Congress has made federal legislative information available through the THOMAS web site. Find information on current bills, resolutions, House and Senate votes, and other current congressional activity. Also allows retrieval of the full text of bills from 1989 (the 101st Congress) to the present.

U.S. Congressional Serial Set
A digitized collection of primary material on nearly two hundred years of American history. The U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980) consists of the bound volumes of all reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. This remarkable digitization project (in which Dartmouth is a major partner) offers access to this rich collection and provides facsimile images of every Serial Set publication, including every illustration, map, colored map, and color plate. Browse by subject or search.

Selected Government Websites

• Bureau of Land Management
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• USDA Forest Service
• National Park Service
• NPSWilderness

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E. Selected Web Resources

If you are tempted to try Google for your research, consider using Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a search engine that includes mostly scholarly materials, such as books, journal articles, dissertations and reports. The Resources@Dartmouth link within Google Scholar goes to Dartmouth's ArticleLinker connection to our library resources.

Wilderness.net
A site that providess "access to general information about wilderness, stewardship and educational resources, scientific information, agency policies, relevant legislation, communication tools to connect you with others in the wilderness community and more." An excellent site.

• includes a feature section on the 40th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act.
• includes the Wilderness Stewardship Reference System, a database of legislative, administrative, and judicial information related to specific wilderness issues.
• includes sections on Wilderness Management and Wilderness Legislation and Policy

The site is a partnership project of the Wilderness Institute at The University of Montana's College of Forestry and Conservation, the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center, and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute.

The Wilderness Society
An advocacy group founded in 1935 dedicated to the protection of American wilderness areas through education, advocacy, and research. Publishes the journal Wilderness.

• Wilderness
  1990-1995 (quarterly)
  1998-present (annual)

F. Managing Your References and Citing Sources

The Dartmouth Writing Program provides an online resources page for students to help you with all aspects of composition.

The Student Center for Research, Writing & Information Technology (RWIT) trains student tutors to assist with paper topics, research assignments and multimedia projects.

Style guides provide accepted standards to follow when preparing research papers for publication. Sources is the Dartmouth College general guide to citing sources, and contains required reading about plagiarism and when, and how, to cite material you are using for a paper or presentation. Find more examples in this online style handbook: Research and Documentation Online.

Reference management programs (eg., RefWorks or EndNote) allow you to build a personal database of your references to articles, books, websites - any information source - and then easily create bibliographies and reference lists using any particular style, without having to retype or reformat. See this overview of reference management programs widely used at Dartmouth.

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G. Getting Items Not Available at Dartmouth

BORROW DIRECT: Delivers books from the combined library catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale within 4 business days.

Please fill out the DartDoc Form for documents that are in Storage or that are not in the Dartmouth Library system (Interlibrary Loan requests). See the Document Delivery webpage for more details on these services.

You can also use the Request Selected Item feature of the Library Catalog to request books or articles from Storage.

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H. Locations | Maps | Hours | Help

QuickJump Dartmouth College Library Kresge Physical Sciences Library Baker-Berry Library Rauner Special Collections Biomedical Libraries (Dana) ------------------- Getting Started with Library Research Library Catalog eResources

Map of the libraries & Library Hours

Getting Started with Library Research
A quick review of the basics

Accessing Electronic Resources from Off-Campus (proxy server or VPN software instructions)

Help

Ask A Kresge-Cook Librarian | Ask a Rauner Librarian | Ask a Baker Berry Librarian

OR, contact:
Jane Quigley, Reference Librarian, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, 6-3564 Ann Perbohner, Reference Librarian, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, 6-3845
Noah Lowenstein Reference LIbrarian,Kresge Physical Sciences Library,6-9958
Lucinda Hall, Reference Librarian, Geography & Maps, Baker-Berry, 6-0962
Jay Satterfield, Special Collections Librarian, 6-3712
John Cocklin, Government Documents Librarian, 6-2546

Email: Kresge.Library.Reference@Dartmouth.EDU
Email: Rauner.Reference@Dartmouth.EDU

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