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UR Catalog
Use the UR Catalog to search specifically for books, journal titles -- NOT articles -- and other materials available at the University of Rochester Library. Search by Title, Author, Subject Heading, Keyword(s) or Call Number.

Articles & Books
Use Articles & Books Search to simultaneously search hundreds of the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries resources to find books, ebooks and articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Submit an ILL request
Need an item that we don’t have in the stacks? ILL works with libraries all over the world to get U of R students, faculty members, employees, and affiliates the materials they need. Submit your request now!

Recommend a Purchase
The River Campus Libraries welcome suggestions for the purchase of materials for our library collections. Your request will be reviewed by library staff. Preference will be to acquire the eBook format where available. Please indicate in the Notes field if you would prefer that we acquire the print format.

Annotated Bibliography

Here are two excellent resources for Annotated Bibliography.

Citation Help

There are many resources for help with writing on campus.

For some easy to use guides to citing in MLA, APA and other popular citation styles, go to our Writing and Citing page: http://www.library.rochester.edu/reference/writing

The Writing, Speaking and Argument Center can help you at any stage of writing: http://writing.rochester.edu/help/index.html

Journal Article Databases

ProQuest Research, Newspapers & Business
Identifies articles in journals, magazines and newspapers, many full text. Includes ABI/Inform, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, and Alt-PressWatch.
Google Scholar
For off-campus access to full text: Click Scholar Preferences and add Rochester as your Library Link. Be sure to Save Preferences.
JSTOR
Full text articles in many disciplines. To access JSTOR you may need to login with VPN .

Subject areas include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, statistics. The University of Rochester Libraries currently subscribes to the following multidisciplinary JSTOR Collections: Arts and Sciences I through XV. JSTOR also packages their content in disciplinary collections; however, the only ones of these that we have licensed are the Biological Sciences segment and the first of the Business collections. For alumni access, see also Alumni Library Gateway.
ScienceDirect
Journals from Elsevier Science. Browse or search tables of contents, abstracts and full text of articles in all disciplines.
Users should update their passwords.

Includes the sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences, and clinical medicine. Full text from 1995 on, except as indicated.
Sage Journals
Journals from Sage Publications. Browse or search tables of contents, abstracts and full text articles in all disciplines.

Includes the Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Full text available as indicated. For alumni access, see also Alumni Library Gateway.
Wilson OmniFile
Identifies articles on many subjects with some full text.

Includes full text from these databases, when available: General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Index to Legal periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Index, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts.

Finding Articles on Art-Specific Databases

ARTbibliographies Modern
Identifies articles, books, dissertations and exhibition catalogs on art from Impressionism to present.
Art Retrospective
Identifies older articles (1929-1984) on the visual arts and architecture.
ARTstor
Over 1,000,000 images covering art, architecture,fashion and archeology. Software tools support teaching and research.

including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Identifies articles on architecture and design, history of architecture, city planning.
Bibliography of the History of Art
World's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of Western art from late antiquity to the present.

BHA includes and extends the coverage of two predecessor art indexes, RAA (Répertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989.

Government Information, Economics, Law and Music Librarian

Kathy Wu

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585-273-5322
I am available for one-on-one virtual consultation through Zoom.

I am also the librarian for the English for Academic Purposes Program.

Zoom meeting only by appointment at https://rochester.zoom.us/my/kathywu

Subjects: Data & Statistics, Debate, Economics, Government Information, Law, Music