Research Guides: CITY 229: Race, Conflict and Migration (BMC): Finding Books

Locating Books & Journals

Tripod
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Tripod searches for individual journal articles as well as the Tri-College libraries’ collection of books, journal titles, multimedia materials, databases and more.

Library Tutorials: Need a refresher on how to use Tripod?? Try one of the online interactive library tutorials here.

ILLiad/Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Use ILLiad to request books not available in Tripod or via E-ZBorrow, plus journal articles, book chapters and more for delivery in 2-14 days. No need to specify a library - the ILL staff will find out who owns an item and is likely to lend. The lending library sets the loan period and makes the decision on renewals.
EZ Borrow
Directly request books and scores from regional academic libraries for delivery in 2 to 5 days.

WorldCat
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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

Oxford Reference
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Bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas with coverage from 2002 to the present.
Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World
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Traces the history and cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Featuring original contributions by distinguished international scholars, this reference work explores aspecst of the civilized world from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences.
Brill's Encyclopedia of China
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Covers the history, geography, society, economy, politics, science, and culture of China, focusing on the modern period from the mid-XIXth to the XXIst century.

Encyclopedia of urban studies (Online : Gale)
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Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures
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Encyclopedia of urban America : the cities and suburbs
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Credo Reference
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Provides full-text access to over 500 reference books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, etc., in various fields including art, law, literature, social sciences, and technology.
Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher
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Original reporting and analysis on issues in the news, focusing on the economy, education, the environment, health, international affairs, social trends, and technology. Published weekly, 1991-present.
Britannica Online
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Offers a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative reference sources,including Britannica's entire encyclopaedic database, articles not yet in the print Britannica encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica book of the year. Current Coverage.