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Citizenship and the American Constitution  

Monographic Sources

  • The Libraries' book collection includes works that offer comprehensive treatments of historical topics. Use PILOT, our online catalog to find books in our collection as well as links to the full-text of electronic reserve items and other valuable information on the Internet.
  • To search the catalogs of other Pennsylvania Libraries, and to borrow from them directly, search PALCI  and  log in using your 16-digit I-card number.)
  • To search for essays contained in book chapters search Essay and General Literature.  Essays located may not be held in our collections, but should be available through Interlibrary Loan.
  • The Center for Research Libraries houses materials rarely held in U.S. libraries. Holdings are available for long term loan to IUP patrons. http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu.  Click here for their subject brochures. Items not in our collection can be borrowed online through Interlibrary Loan.
  • Worldcat-search the OCLC Database of paper and electronic titles.

General Online Sources of Full-text Scholarly and Popular Magazines

Scholarly and popular magazines and newspapers offer concise and timely treatment of  many topics of historical interest. IUP patrons can access large collections of such information through the journal aggregators. (To gain access at home, use your 16 digit I-card number.)
 

  • EBSCOhost--provides access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic access to thousands more.
  • Gale/Infotrac-provides access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic access to thousands more.
  • Lexis Nexis Academic—full-text access to primary and secondary legal literature. Choose “Legal Research” under “Quick Info.”

E-Journals

  • Project MUSE -- provides more than 200 full-text online scholarly journals from academic presses covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
  • JSTOR-- Online archives of over 125 journals in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. JSTOR is designed specifically for archiving journals, so it does not include the most recent 2-5 years of each title.

Electronic Indexes
 

  • America:  History and Life-- coverage of historical literature of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This comprehensive index includes materials owned by our library, but does not limit its findings to our holdings.  Entries  include links to the full-text of articles included in JSTOR and Project MUSE collections and some websites.  To determine if we own items cited in these indexes do a journal title search in   PILOT or use IUP Libraries Electronic Journals Search to determine if a journal is available in full-text from one of our electronic journal collections.

Internet Sources

Citing What You Find


Questions or comments concerning this page should be directed to Theresa McDevitt. Correspondence regarding this site should be sent to its maintainer, Ed Zimmerman, edzimmer@iup.edu> . Please see IUP's statement regarding pages that do not officially represent the university. Revised on 02/20/03