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GE Cluster 21C: History of Modern Thought
Spring Seminar 2008 – Courtney Spikes
Dialogue and Disagreement: Salon style discussions of European Enlightenment and the French Revolution


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Dialogue and Disagreement - class webpage 

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Selected Online Encyclopedias and Resources

Selected Print Encyclopedias and Resources

Useful Article Databases

Finding Books, Movies and Journal Titles at UCLA

Useful Subject Headings

Help Pages



Selected Online Encyclopedias and Resources

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (UCLA only)
General encyclopedia licensed for use by the UCLA students, staff & faculty. Some articles include links to other web sites.

www.biography.com Commercial site that features search access to "25,000 of the greatest lives, past & present." Some biographies are much more detailed than others.

ARTstor  ARTStor is a digital library of art images, associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning and scholarship. Searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images...


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Selected Print Encyclopedias and Resources

Women in History  - 17 volumes
College Library Main Reading Room Biography Section HQ 1115 W6 1999


Dictionary of Scientific Biography  -16 volumes
College Library Main Reading Room Biography Section  Q 141 D562 1981

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 9 volumes
College Library Main Reading Room  B 51 R68 1998

World Philosophers and their Works   - 3 volumes
College Library Main Reading Room  B104 W67 2000

Encyclopedia of Enlightenment  - 4 volumes
College Library Main Reading Room B 802 E53 2003

Encyclopedia of Enlightenment - 1 volume
College Library Main Reading Room  B802 W48 1996


Dictionary of Literary Biography (over 300 volumes)
College Library Main Reading Room Literary Criticisms  PS 129 D52

Literary Criticisms: 1400-1800  - 132 volumes
College Library Main Reading Room Literary Criticisms PN 86 L53 1984

European Writers – Age of Reason and Enlightenment (volumes 3 & 4)
College Library Main Reading Room Literary Criticisms  PN501 E9 1983



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Useful Article Databases

America: History & Life  Index and abstracts for articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, published since 1964.

Historical Abstracts  Index and abstracts for articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life) published since 1967.

Expanded Academic ASAP
  Provides selected full-text articles and images from 2,600 scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, with the earliest citations dating back to 1980. Spans all academic disciplines

History of Science Medicine & Technology  Contains citations from journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, the history of technology, and allied historical fields

Biography Index  Biography Index is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books…

Periodicals Archive Online  Index to millions of articles published in 4,547 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from 1770 to 1995, including full text for 200 complete journal runs.

Jstor  Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences,...

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Finding Books, Movies and Journal Titles at UCLA

Link to
UCLA Library Catalog.

Learn how to use it
More information on finding books


Useful Subject Headings:
Enter your person’s name in subject list (start of)


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Help Pages

How to Write a Research Paper

Before you begin that paper
(UCLA Dean of Students)

Scholarly vs. Popular Articles

How to evaluate journal articles

Plagiarism

How Not to Plagiarize

How to cite

Dictionaries & Thesauri


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Resources selected by: Diane Mizrachi, Librarian Liaison for GE 021
Last updated: April
20 , 2007