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ARCH 352 - Keddy

Resources for ARCH 352; instructor: Prof. Karen Keddy.

Finding Books in CardCat

Search CardCat for books. Examples of subjects:

Titanic
Shipwrecks
Ocean liners

More on finding/renewing/recalling books.

Find Articles in America: History & Life

Search America: History & Life for articles. Keywords include:

Titanic
Titanic and social classes
Titanic and social history
Titanic and (gender or sex role)

More History databases available through the University Libraries. See "History" under "Databases by Subject" on the left side of the page.

More Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window A good general database.
Description: Good database for most research topics and contains lots of full text, peer reviewed articles. More than 18,000 of the journal titles indexed are peer reviewed and almost all of the full text is. Provides searchable cited references for more than 1,000 journal titles so you can easily see what sources a given article cites.
Time Period: 1911 to present
Sources: Indexes nearly 18,000 journals and magazine and provides full text for more than 8,700.
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Business, Education, English & Linguistics, General, Health, History, Humanities, Law, Music, News, Philosophy & Religion, Psychology, Science, Social Sciences, Technology
Scholarly or Popular: Semi-scholarly
Primary Materials: Abstracts, Case Studies, Citations, Conference Papers, Images, Journal Articles, Magazine Articles, News, Other, Reviews
Information Included: Abstracts,Full Text,Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: Yes
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: EBSCO
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

JSTOR
Full text of 420 scholarly journals. Archives journals back to first issues, but does not include most recent 3-5 years or more for most titles.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Covers 1851-2007 and includes articles written at the time the Titanic sank. See Academic Search Premier to search for articles 2007-present.
Sociological Abstracts
Includes topics in social history. Search for keywords such as "Titanic and social inequality."