Activities
Interlibrary Loan
Use Interlibrary Loan to request a PDF of an article that isn't available at Lehigh or a scanned PDF of a print article that Lehigh owns. You will get an email when the article is ready for download.
Search Techniques
1. Once you know your research interest, formulate it into a question and use the most important parts to generate keywords. Here, "Star Wars" and "myth" are the key parts of the topic, so those will be the keywords.
2. You can then use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to better refine your search.
Find Books
Watch the video below to learn more about searching in ASA: the online library catalog.
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians by
Until the last two centuries, the human landscapes of the Great Plains were shaped solely by Native Americans, and since then the region has continued to be defined by the enduring presence of its Indigenous peoples. The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians offers a sweeping overview, across time and space, of this story in 123 entries drawn from the acclaimed Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, together with 23 new entries focusing on contemporary Plains Indians, and many new photographs.
Call Number: ebook
Search for Articles
Characteristics:
- Cover numerous topics
- May contain multiple types of sources (e.g. popular, trade, scholarly)
- Audience = educated readership
Examples:
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowIndexes, abstracts and provides selective full-text for a broad spectrum of magazines, journals and newspapers.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowIndexes important scholarly journals for the entire range of the humanities and social sciences topics published throughout the 20th century in North America and Europe.
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text of scholarly journals, beginning with the very first issue of each title. Primarily humanities and social sciences titles.
- Project MUSE: Scholarly Journals Online This link opens in a new windowOffers over 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers.
- Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowSocial sciences database that offers international coverage of subject areas including Political Science, Public Policy, Sociology, Education, Psychology, Economics, Linguistics, and Criminal Justice
View the video below for tips on searching for articles.
Characteristics:
- Pertain to a particular discipline
- Often contain scholarly sources, known as peer-reviewed articles
- Articles are written and reviewed by experts in the field
- Academic audience
- Showcase original research
Examples:
- America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowHistorical research about the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- EconLit This link opens in a new windowCovers journals, books, and working papers on economics providing citations for dissertations and articles in more than 620 collective volumes per year.
Characteristics:
- Written by columnists
- Audience = general public
- Full of images
Examples:
- Sports Illustrated
- Vogue
Characteristics:
- Written by columnists, journalists, and/or reporters
- Coverage = current events
- Articles written at 8th grade reading level
Examples:
- Morning Call This link opens in a new windowCoverage from 1984 through today, including full-text, web-only content and full-color image edition.