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Welcome to your Paideia research guide!

In this guide, you will find a selection of resources as a place to get started with research on your section's topic. If you have questions or need help finding something, please ask at the library Circulation Desk or contact the librarian working with your section.

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Resources

You're not on your own! We've already collected here several reference sources, databases, and other resources that contain information you may need for your research project. Some are available online, while others are available in physical formats at Preus Library. Click on the tabs below to view links to these resources:

Resources

A reference source summarizes facts and concepts on a topic and provides useful background information. Reference sources include dictionaries and encyclopedias. Reference sources are a great place to start when you're trying to choose or narrow a topic. They'll help you learn the language of the topic you're interested in, and help you gather:

basic facts or established information on your topic
key concepts, terms, and people
related topics, and more places to search

Online Reference Databases:

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
An online collection of over 600 full-text reference works, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and more.
Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 3,000 reference works, covering all disciplines.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
This online source provides access to subject and language reference works from Oxford University Press. In addition to text, access is provided to maps and illustrations, timelines, web sites, and bibliographies.

A database is a collection of scholarly journals and articles that lets us search many potential sources at once. Databases can be general and cover many subjects, or be specific to one or several subjects.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,000 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
MLA International Bibliography covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
Taylor and Francis Social Science and Humanities Library This link opens in a new window
Over 1,500 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities areas.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full text access is available to over 380 journals and over 13,000 scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. Managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage from 1993 - present.

To locate more books and ebooks available at Preus Library, try searching the catalog.

Pop Culture Freaks by Dustin Kidd
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780813349138
This introductory "field guide" to the sociology of popular culture provides the tools to think critically about the cultural soup served daily by film, television, music, print media, and the internet.
A Short Guide to Writing about Film by Timothy Corrigan
Call Number: On Reserve: PN1995 .C66 2025
ISBN: 9781478652076
Publication Date: 2024-08-09