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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.
Daily Life through History This link opens in a new window
Focusing on social history, this database includes some primary source material, images, and even a few videos for more recent topics. Tends to provide brief overviews of topics.
Biography In Context This link opens in a new window
Search for biographies based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, or other keywords.
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.
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.

Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis by J. K. Rowling
ISBN: 1582348251
Publication Date: 2003-07-07
In case you don't remember, Harry Potter is an eleven year old wizard. Long ago, Harry's parents were killed in a battle with the evil Lord Voldemort. When we first meet Harry, he is living miserably with his repulsive and non-magical (or Muggle) Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon and their even more revolting son Dudley. Following a bizarre but hilarious chain of events, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with an outrageous cast of characters, including super-smart Hermione, vile Draco Malfoy, sinister Professor Snape and the wise Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Adventures galore ensue...

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.

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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"Open access" material is available to anyone, any time. Other material available through interlibrary loan

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.
Plagiarism by Barry Gilmore
ISBN: 9780325026435
Publication Date: 2009-02-05
Helps students to understand what exactly plagiarism is, how it happens, and how to avoid it,