Research Guides: First Year Seminars: FYS 170-3 Sixties Revisited

Searching at Musselman Library

Library Catalog

MUSCAT Plus This link opens in a new window
MUSCAT Plus searches for books, journal articles, media, and more in Musselman Library and beyond.

To see have more request options and to see all results, sign in with Muscat Plus before searching.

Interdisciplinary Databases

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Provides access to thousands of full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports. Content covers all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text journals articles across all disciplines. Years of coverage: varies by journal title.

Disciplinary Database

America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to articles on American and Canadian history. Articles date from 1964 – present. Includes some full-text links.

Background Information

Gale Reference eBooks This link opens in a new window
Provides a database of encyclopedias and reference sources for research. Coverage include the Arts, Business, Education, the Environment, History, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Religion, Science and Social Science. 2000 – present.

The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781851099603
Includes more than 900 alphabetically arranged entries (and plus over 200 primary source documents) that illuminate every aspect of the Vietnam War.
American Decades - Volume 7, 1960-1969
Call Number: EBook
ISBN: 0810357275
Provides a thematic overview of the decade in areas like business, education, fashion, social trends, etc.

New York Times Magazine

Readers’ Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to articles on all subjects from approximately 375 general and popular magazines (no scholarly journals), 1890-1982.

In addition to browsing the physical copy that you have of The New York Times Magazine, you may want to use Readers Guide to Periodical Literature to search by keyword or browse the table of contents of your issue (or those published around it).

Follow this link to a search that is already focused on this publication. Add terms to search within the publication or browse the issues on the side by publication data.

Cite Your Sources

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian
ISBN: 9780226430577
Publication Date: 2018
Kate Turabian's Manual for Writers... is available both at the Reference Desk and book collection.

Not near the Research Help Desk? Use the quick guide to Turabian online from the University of Chicago Press or see your syllabus.

Keyword Searching Strategies

Keyword Searching

For both library catalogs and article databases, start with your keywords: such as:

1960 AND counterculture

Westmoreland AND biography

Connecting Words

Use AND to require both terms
Use OR to search for either term
Use NOT to exclude a term (for example, 1960s AND counterculture NOT music)