Tutt Library

FE109: The Search for Islamic Order: Yesterday & Today

Professor Lee’s page The Search for Islamic Order: Yesterday and Today

Finding Books

• TIGER first
• Prospector next – faster (3-4 days avg.)
• Worldcat – what you can’t find above, US and International libraries

Articles

Scholarly vs Popular – Vodka ad

Databases

Academic Search Premier

Coverage: 1988 - current

Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings.

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.

Subject Database links

History
Religion

• Encyclopedia of Islam
• Index Islamicus

Political Science

Special note

Google Scholar

Coverage: N/A

Retrieves citations to a wide variety of research papers, thesis, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Check for possible full text by using Colorado College Links or Colorado College e-texts buttons next to the citations.

Pawprints

• use when the fulltext isn’t right there
• for citations – which databases has the journal
• Journal Finder

ILLIAD

• Interlibrary loan software
• how Tutt handles requests (except Prospector)
• ILLIAD

Online

About search engines
I found it on the web

Other

Interviews with last year’s thesis students