Books & AV Materials

Information needed includes title and author. The ISBN number is very helpful. Some items do not have an ISBN number – in this case an LC number or OCLC number is helpful.

OCLC	http://illweb.oclc.org Also on subscription databases page.
Books in Print	http://www.booksinprint.com Print volumes located at Ref. 015.73 Boo.
Amazon	http://www.amazon.com
Barnes & Noble	http://www.bn.com
Library of Congress Catalog	http://catalog.loc.gov
JerseyCat	http://njsl-agent.auto-graphics.com/agent/login.asp?cid=njsl&lid=ccpl Also on the library's reference computers (LAN).
Rutgers University Catalog	http://www.iris.rutgers.edu Now cataloging new materials in RLIN, so can check their catalog directly if materials not found in OCLC.
Princeton University Catalog	http://libweb.princeton.edu/catalogs/ Now cataloging new materials in RLIN, so can check their catalog directly if materials not found in OCLC.
Video Source Book	Ref. 011.37 Vid
Bowker’s Complete Video Directory	Ref. 016.7914 Bow
Play Index	Ref. 016.80882 Pla
Short Story Index (print and online)	Index Table 808.83 Sho Also on the library's reference computers (LAN) at LitFinder

Articles

Information needed includes the title of the article, author(s), name of magazine/newspaper/journal, date and/or volume and issue, and page numbers. Having the ISSN number is also helpful. If an ISSN number cannot be located, an OCLC number is helpful.

To locate an ISSN and/or OCLC number:

Publist at http://www.publist.com
New Jersey Union List of Serials at www.njuls.org
Ulrichs International Periodical Directory at Ready Ref. 016.05 Ulr
Search Jake http://jake.lib.sfu.ca/search.cgi
Library of Congress catalog at http://catalog.loc.gov
OCLC at http://illweb.oclc.org

To complete or correct a citation:

LAN databases such as EBSCO and Reader’s Guide Retrospective
Subscription databases web page (i.e. First Search, Dialog. Lexis/Nexis.)
FindArticles.com at http://www.findarticles.com Covers 300 magazines and goes back to 1998.
For scholarly/technical articles also try Ingenta at http://www.ingenta.com/
For medical articles also try PubMed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi ; CancerLit at http://www.cancer.gov/search/cancer_literature/; Free Medical Journals Site at http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
For some citations, you will need to try the print indexes on the index tables. These include Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, New York Times Index, and Essay and General Literature Index (also check for essays on the LAN at LitFinder.)

To find out where a journal is indexed, check its entry in Ulrich’s (Ready Ref. 016.05 Ulr), Full Text Sources Online (Ready Ref. 025.04 Ful) or Search Jake at http://jake.lib.sfu.ca/search.cgi.

Also, some a magazines/journals have web sites with archives. Some archives are full text and others just give table of contents. These can also be useful in verifying citations and can be found by searching Google (http://www.google.com) or Publist (http://www.publist.com.)

Dissertations

OCLC

http://illweb.oclc.org

Also on subscription databases page.

Dialog – File 35 Dissertation Abstracts Online

See the subscription databases page for access to Dialog. The bluesheet for this file is at http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0035.html

Dissertation Abstracts web site

http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/

Free access to the most current 2 years of abstracts.

http://www.camdencountylibrary.org/pathfinders/citations.htm
Last Reviewed: July 21, 2009
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