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Especially useful databases -- login credentials necessary for remote access

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital library with access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines
"Advanced Search" will let the user select "Books" for format if so desired.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Issues and Controversies This link opens in a new window
Issues & Controversies aims to provide the most accurate, accessible, and authoritative content available and present arguments on both sides of every issue in a clear, balanced, and unbiased manner.
Topicsearch This link opens in a new window
Full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Masterfile Premier
Full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
PowerSearch

Kanopy
Feature films and documentaries for streaming

Useful websites

CIA World Factbook
Creative commons
Dartmouth Library catalog
One search box for all books, journal articles, and open access material available through the Dartmouth library system.
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Many articles can be borrowed through interlibrary loan, even when physical libraries are closed.

Databases useful for background material

ABC-CLIO Databases This link opens in a new window
Click on the link to access all ABC-CLIO databases.
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Britannica Academic is a combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools providing a variety of reliable sources students need for research. Provides overview and background as well as bibliographies of trusted sources on many topics.
World Book Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Full text of the print set plus a basic Spanish-language encyclopedia, an atlas, etc. Provides overview and background on many topics.

To help you create proper citations

Noodletools
Set up your Noodletools account using your Google credentials and then save your research projects and citations all in one place!
myBib
Alternative to Easybib and Noodletools
How to cite a cat video!
Purdue's OWL citation help

MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America
ISBN: 9781603292627
Publication Date: 2016-04-01
The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book--or perhaps listened to in an audio version. On the Web, modes of publication are regularly invented, combined, and modified. MLA 8 recommends a universal set of guidelines.