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GE Cluster 21C: History of Modern Thought

Spring Seminar 2008 – Diana Raesner

Fact and Fiction: Travel Accounts and Their Significance in Modern World

         

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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

Early English Books Online 
Citations from early English texts from 1475 to 1700, presented as digital images. Includes works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell...

Eighteenth Century collections online

A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom…

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

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...

Reference Universe This database searches the complete indexes of more than 10,000 reference titles. Nearly 2,000of these titles are online editions.

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Selected Print Encyclopedias and Resources

Encyclopedia of travel literature
Young Research Library G465 .B765 2000

The encyclopedia of women’s travel and exploration
Young Research Library Reference Reading Room  G465 .N47 2001

Literature of travel and exploration : an encyclopedia
Young Research Library Reference Reading Room  G465 .L565 2003

Travel legend and lore : an encyclopedia
Young Research Library Reference Reading Room  G151 .F75 1998
American travel writers, 1776-1864
College Library Main Reading Room: Dictionary of Literary Criticism # 183 PS366.T73 A45 1997

American travel writers, 1850-1915
College Library Main Reading Room: Dictionary of Literary Criticism # 189 PS366.T73 A45 1998

British travel writers, 1837-1875
College Library Main Reading Room: Dictionary of Literary Criticism #166  PS 129 D52

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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

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,...

Index to English literary periodicals, 1681 to 1914
Indexes 233 periodical titles, focusing on literature, but also covering theater, art, music, history, politics, sociology, philosophy, economics,

Literature online: the home of English and American literature on the World Wide Web
An array of literary databases (including the full text of poems, plays, and fiction), reference works (including bibliographies, encyclopedias, etc.), and links to other Web resources for the study...

Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other...

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes journals, dissertations, collected works in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore from 1925 to the present.

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Finding Books, Movies and Journal Titles at UCLA

Link to UCLA Library Catalog.

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Useful Subject Headings:
Topics
Africa – description and travel
Asia – description and travel
Europe – description and travel
Travelers’ writings
Travel in literature 
Travel - Humor
Travelers
Voyages and travels
Voyages and travels – history
Voyages around the world
Voyages – imaginary
Voyages to the Pacific Coast
Women travelers
People
Barentsz, Willem
Cook, James
Equiano, Olauda
Montagu, Mary Wortley
Pullman, Philip
Swift, Jonathan
Verne, Jules
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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
Citation generators

  • www.sourceaid.com
  • http://citationmachine.net


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    Resources selected by: Diane Mizrachi, Librarian Liaison for GE 021
    Last updated: March 17,2008