LibGuides: WRTG 105 Dis/Enchantment (Ormsbee): Finding Books & Articles

DiscoverUR, Interlibrary Loan & E-books

DiscoverUR
Search settings can be changed on the results page.
To limit to just scholarly articles, check the box for Peer-reviewed Journals under Availability on the left side of the search results.

DiscoverUR Search Tips
Rush Rhees Call Number Directory
Determine where you need to go in the Rush Rhees Library to find your book's call number or to browse a call number range.

Looking for e-books? You can search DiscoverUR for these (see above) or go directly to one of our e-book databases:

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Selected full text of books in all disciplines. Previously called: Ebrary.
EBSCOHost eBook Collections This link opens in a new window
Selected book titles in all disciplines. Formerly known as NetLibrary.
Not all titles are downloadable. It depends on the agreement with the publisher, however many titles can be downloaded. If downloading is permitted, you will see a button in the results list that says "download offline," and on the record for the book itself, a utton that says "Download this ebook" Make sure that you have an up to date version of Adobe Digital Editions. Click here for more help.

Interlibrary Loan Service (ILL)
Need an item that we don’t have? ILL works with libraries all over the world to get U of R students, faculty members, employees, and affiliates the materials they need.

From within any of the library databases, click the button. It will find the full text of your article online if it's available through the UR Libraries. It will also search the library catalog for you to see if we have your article in print—or let you request it via Interlibrary Loan if we don't have it.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Identifies and locates books and other materials owned by libraries in the US and internationally.
Use WorldCat to locate materials outside of UR, in all disciplines and formats, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections.

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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 e-book format where available. Please indicate in the Notes field if you would prefer that we acquire the print format.

Journal Article Databases

Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles and cited references in selected arts and humanities journals.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles on all aspects of speech, rhetoric, debate, broadcasting, and media studies.
Many major journals have indexing, abstracts and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).
Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles on art, architecture, dance, folklore, myth, film, journalism, music and religion. Many with links to full text.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles, books, dissertations on literature, linguistics, film and folklore.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full text of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
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.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles, books and other resources in sociology, anthropology, education, and other social sciences.
Includes some links to full text.

Databases A-Z list
All the databases we have in the library!
Library Research Guide by Subject Area/Discipline