FTS: Money

Professor: David Wolfe (x7469, wolfe@gac.edu)
Librarian: Michelle Twait (x7563, mtwait@gac.edu)

Finding Books / Reference Works / Finding Articles / Citing Your Sources

Finding Books

MnPALS
Our library catalog. This link takes you into the "Basic Searches" screen where you can search by author, title, etc. The "Advanced Searches" option lets you limit by date, additional keywords, collection area, and so on. In your list of results, the Location column lists the call number--where the book is shelved.

To find out what the letters in the call numbers stand for, go to LC Classification Online.

WorldCat
An international shared library catalog with over 40 million items. Many of these materials will be obscure and/or rare and will not be available through interlibrary loan.

Reference Collection

Reference works are helpful at two points in your research: when starting out (by offering overview articles of, say, a writer and her work) or when nailing down unfamiliar terms, concepts, and topics that turn up during your research. Many reference book articles are written by experts and offer not only information but excellent bibliographies for further research.

Money

Encyclopedia of Money (REF. HG216 .A43 1999)
New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance (REF. HG151 .N48 1992)

Cultures

Encyclopedia of World Cultures (REF. GN550 .E53 1991)
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life (REF. GN333 .W67 1998)

Note: If your research involves a particular country, look for an encyclopedia specifically about that country.

Miscellaneous!

Encyclopedia of American Prisons (REF. HV9471 .E425 1996)
Dictionary of Art (REF. N31 .D5 1996)
Encyclopedia of North American Sports History (REF. GV567 .H518 1992)
Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence (REF. HQ772 .G27 1998)

Finding Articles

Databases for articles and other materials offer references to publications that may or may not be in this library; some databases offer full text of articles and others simply references. There are in-depth databases that cover publications in a particular field and others that are interdisciplinary. Databases can be accessed from a drop-down list on the library's main page; descriptions can be found here.

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains indexing for nearly 8,050 publications, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. This database covers biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion and theology, sociology, and other disciplines.

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier offers indexing and abstracts for 350 scholarly business journals back to 1965 or the first published issue, as well as searchable references for a total of more than 1,170 journals.

FirstSearch (Article First, ECO, and many other databases)
FirstSearch is a service available from OCLC that allows users to search a set of over 15 periodical indexes and databases. Many of those databases are described and linked on this page. OCLC maintains a website where you can read more about using FirstSearch.

LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a full text web-accessible database service that is particularly strong in the areas of current news, legal information, and business information. It is a vast resource, with over a billion documents already available and over nine million new documents added weekly.

Journal Locator
Use the Journal Locator to find out what the library subscribes to - both online and in print.

Citing Your Sources

Documentation Guide -- Includes models for APA and MLA style, plus links to examples of Chicago and CBE style.

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