Research Guides: Mellon Mays Undergradute Research Fellows (BMC): Finding Research

Most important places to know about

Tripod Library Catalog
- Use Tripod to find resources available from the TriCo Libraries.
- Search for books, e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more

Tripod Catalog: A How-To Guide (BMC)
How to use Tripod
Tips from the Librarians at Swarthmore (apply to all three TriCo campuses)
TriCo Libraries Research Guides
Librarians in the TriCo have made research guides for each subject area (these usually have lots and lots of potential resources) and research guides for specific courses (which have a subset of resources relevant to that course content). Explore these to see if you find new avenues - databases, websites, reference books, etc.

ProQuest Research Library
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
JSTOR
Access to millions of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in most academic disciplines. For journals, coverage is from first issue through three to five years ago.

Mellon Mays Guide from Amherst
Very useful descriptions of Annotated Bib and Literature Reviews, information about the Research Process.
Mellon Mays Guide from Carleton
I particularly like the page about looking for patterns.
Mellon Mays Guide from Brown Univ.
Includes research information for all topics and subject-specific help as well.