Consulting Reference Information
Start with Reference Resources
Reference works are considered tertiary information sources. Tertiary sources include encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies and other reference materials that provide broad overviews of particular topics. Where secondary sources summarize and interpret an event or phenomenon, tertiary sources summarize and interpret other resources.
Reference tools give you good background information on the topic you are investigating. Questions to ask include: 1.What are the key issues; 2.What terms are being used? Learn the lingo; 3.What are the relevant and necessary primary sources?; 4.Who are the key people?; 5.What are the key works?
Being able to answer these questions will help you build a good conceptual framework for your topic.
Introduction to Latine Studies
Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781317536697Publication Date: 2018-08-06
Database Resources
- Bloomsbury Religion in North America This link opens in a new windowCovering North America’s diverse religious traditions, this resource provides reliable and peer-reviewed information for students and instructors of religious studies, anthropology of religion, sociology of religion, and history.
- DeGruyter Religious Minorities Online This link opens in a new windowReligious Minorities Online (RMO) is an academic resource on religious minorities worldwid written by leading scholars and is rigorously peer-reviewed.
- Encyclopedia Judaica This link opens in a new windowProvides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new windowThe Handbook of Latin American Studies is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
- Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies This link opens in a new windowLatino Studies is an emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States through an interdisciplinary perspective. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion This link opens in a new windowSubstantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion combines the speed and flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing. NOTE: Access is only to the freely available articles on the platform and not the entire collection.
- Oxford HandbooksIncludes access to Oxford Handbooks in the fields of religion, including Biblical Studies, Latin American Religion, African American Theology, Feminist Theology, and Global Religions.
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowA core foundation of religion dictionaries and encyclopedias providing carefully vetted, trusted short-entry content.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States This link opens in a new windowWomen and Social Movements in the United Statesis a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 108 document projects and archives with almost 4,300 documents and more than 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by more than 2,200 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools
Consult WorldCat if you're looking for materials not held in the Learning Commons.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowWorldCat is the most comprehensive database of information about the worlds libraries collections, including Lapp Learning Commons holdings. WorldCat contains data that points to international electronic, print and digital library information. It helps libraries share the world's collected knowledge to fuel learning, research and innovation. Requests for material not found at the Learning Commons can be placed directly through WorldCat.