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Stockton, CA 95211

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:: News & Announcements ::
Davey Café Open for Business
The Davey Café has reopened for the 2008-2009 school year. Stop by!..[More]
Posted Tue, August 26 2008
New Lobby Exhibit of Chinese Christian Center Materials
The new library lobby exhibit features photographs, newspaper clippings, and newsletters related to the Center...[More]
Posted Mon, August 11 2008
Book Club to discuss The Golden Compass
The next faculty/staff book club discussion will feature The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman...[More]
Posted Wed, July 23 2008
Book Club to Discuss Angle of Repose
The next book club discussion will take place on July 16 in the Library Community Room...[More]
Posted Wed, July 02 2008
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Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Prepared by Robin Imhof
Librarian for English / Film Studies
Fall 2006

Educating for Curiosity

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library:  An online collection of premiere reference electronic books. You can search a single ebook or across an entire ebook collection.

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

  • Arts and Humanities: Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more from the leading arts and humanities journals.
  • CQ Library: Created and hosted by CQ Press, the CQ Electronic Library (CQEL) is a resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
  • ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center): Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature.
  • JSTOR: A trusted archive of important scholarly journals.
  • Project Muse: Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, to offer full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the web.
  • Scopus (Elsevier): Scopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database. Abstracts and citations with some linking to full text.
  • Sociological Abstracts: Literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

  • INFOMINE:
    INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.
  • Voice of the Shuttle:
    VOS is a portal for Humanities-related research on the Internet.