Library Guides: Rhetoric R1B: Arts and Sciences of Wellness on the Medical Silk Road: Databases

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Credo Reference
Full text online collection of over 750 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks and other reference works covering a spectrum of topics from the arts to the sciences.
Oxford Reference Online - Encyclopedias
Basic online encylopedias from Oxford University Press, including the World Encyclopedia, World Flags, World Maps and more.

Access to Oxford University Press encyclopedias including: World Encyclopedia, World Flags, World Maps and more.

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Academic Search Complete
A multi-disciplinary database of scholarly and general interest journals, books, and reports. [1865 - present]

Articles from broad array of peer-reviewed journals, popular and trade magazines and news sources for nearly all areas of study; available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Project MUSE
Several hundred digitized scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. [1993 - present]

Topics include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. Books are available in PDF format, searchable and retrievable to the chapter level, with no restrictions on downloading or printing.
JSTOR
Full-text access to over 1000 scholarly journals, including more than 2 million articles, from a wide range of disciplines. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR. [dates vary].

For more sophisticated search capabilities, go directly to JSTOR advanced search.

A-Z Databases
The UC Berkeley Library subscribes to over 1,000 article databases organized by subject and format.

Teach Yourself: Understanding Scholarly Sources

Understanding Scholarly Sources (from NCSU Libraries)

Google Scholar Preferences

Google Scholar is an easy way to do interdisciplinary research, and with some settings changes can become even more useful. You need a Google account to use some of these features. To make Google display links to full text of articles that Berkeley subscribes to: Open Scholar and click on Settings [above the search box]. Under Library Links, enter the word Berkeley and click search (if you are connected to the internet via the campus, Google Scholar will have the correct boxes selected for you). In the list of options that appears, check the boxes for anything University of California, Berkeley.

Off-campus Access to Library Resources

There are two ways to connect to library resources from off-campus using the new library proxy:

Links to online resources on library websites, such as OskiCat, will allow you to login with CalNet directly.
To access library resources found via non-UCB sites, such as Google or Google Scholar, you can add the EZProxy bookmarklet to your browser. Then, whenever you land on a licensed library resource, select your EZproxy bookmarklet to enable CalNet login.

More information is on the EZproxy guide.

The campus VPN provides an alternate method for off-campus access.

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How to find journal articles at UC Berkeley.

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How to identify the best terms for relevant search results.

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Rhetoric R1B: Arts and Sciences of Wellness on the Medical Silk Road: Databases

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