Interlibrary Loan
Photocopies
If you would like to make a copy of an article, you can use one of our two photocopy machines located on the first floor of the library. Cost is .10 per page. These machines use your student photo id to make copies. You can also add money to your card with our "Load Card Station" located next to one of our copiers.
Primary vs. Secondary Sources
"Primary Sources at Yale" provides a general definition, as well as a descriptive listing of samples, of primary sources on this web site. Colorful, concise and clear, you'll be knowledgeable on the topic in a matter of minutes!
Trexler Calendar
Databases
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Academic Search Premier - Our largest and most comprehensive database covering multiple subjects and disciplines. |
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| ARTstor - ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. | |
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ATLA Religion Database - provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. It contains 1.6 million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in over 60 languages. Coverage spans 1949 - present |
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| Business Source Elite - A comprehensive index of business journals, magazines and other sources. Contains indexing and abstracting for more that 3,800 business related periodicals with coverage back to the first half of the 20th century. | |
| Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries - is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. Users need to create individual accounts and interest profiles. | |
| Chronicle of Higher Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. | |
| Credo Reference - is a general reference database which includes over 300 titles. Its full text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference materials. It provides dictionaries and other guides. | |
| CQ Press Electronic Library - a reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy and current affairs. | |
| eBook Collection - Guide to ebooks in Trexler Library | |
| Directory of Open Access Journals - a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. | |
| Films on Demand - a database of licensed streaming videos. Contains over 6,000 titles from such producers as Films for the Humanities, PBS, and more. The films can be linked to ANGEL course resources, shown directly in class, or accessed any time from home or office. | |
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Google Scholar - This version of Google searches peer-reviewed academic journals, books, papers, and theses from academic publishers, professional societies, university presses, and other scholarly organizations. It includes links to the full text of material to which you have access via Trexler Library subscriptions. If you are accessing Google Scholar off the Center Valley Campus, you need to click on "Preferences" at the top of the page, and type in "DeSales" in the box asking for your library. Material from Trexler should then be available via the "Full Text @ My Library" link. |
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| Handbook of Research on Open Source Software - E-access contains full-text articles and chapters regarding research, trends, technologies, and challenges in the field of information science, technology and management. |
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| HathiTrust: A shared digital repository - HathiTrust makes the digitized collections of some of the nation's great research libraries available for all. HathiTrust was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections. | |
| Issues and Controversies - published by Facts on File - in depth investigations of today's top issues. Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. | |
| JStor - This large scholarly database includes the full text of over 250 journals. It includes issues from the start of each journal within one to fives years of the present time. | |
| Lexis-Nexis - Lexis-Nexis provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical and reference information. It includes newspapers from around the world, journals, newsletters, and policy papers. Updated daily. | |
| Library, Information Science & Technolgy Abstracts - indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid 1960's. | |
| MLA Directory of Periodicals - The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. | |
| Oxford English Dictionary - The online 3rd edition of this most famous dictionary. | |
| SAGE Journals - This database includes scholarly peer reviewed articles on a variety of subjects from one publisher, SAGE. | |
| SMARTHistory - This is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement for the traditional art history textbook. It contains audios and videos about works of art found in standard art history survey texts, and the files are organized stylistically and chronologically, with added text and still images. | |
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WorldCat - The world's most comprehensive bibliography with more than 49 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information from 2100 B.C. to the present. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world. |
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| WorldCat Dissertations and Theses - This database provides fast and convenient access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. | |
Trexler Journals
Journals A to Z
Electronic and print journals to which Trexler Library subscribes.
Finding Full-Text of a Journal Article
This 6 minutes tutorial will show you how to locate the full text of a specific journal article
Google Scholoar
If you are accessing Google Scholar off the Center Valley Campus, you need to click on "Preferences" at the top of the page, and type in "DeSales" in the box asking for your library. Material from Trexler should then be available via the "Full Text@ My Library" link.
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