University Writing Program
(Guide created Spring 2008)
Essay: Cronon, William. “The Trouble with Wilderness”
Background Information
Oxford Reference Online
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio3311290
Butler Library
Humanities & History
Gale Virtual Reference
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio6291398
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?ATH2028
Seed Text Resource Guides
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lwe
b/indiv/under/seedtexts.html
Books
Ask Us
www.columbia.edu/library/ask
CLIO, Columbia’s catalog
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AMS3996
Butler Reference Desk Hours:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lwe
b/services/hours/
2
WorldCat
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AMS7418
Worldwide catalog of 70 million records.
Articles and Citations
Librarian
Helen Lane
htl2108@columbia.edu
ProQuest Direct
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?ANH8357
Interdisplinary. See also: historical newspapers.
Applied Sciences Full Text
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AKU0506
Wilson Web - you can add other databases to your search
MLA Bibliography
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AKU2886
Covers film criticism as well as literary criticism
Sociological Abstracts
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?ATG2613
Good for social psychology, popular culture and cross-cultural issues.
Forest History Society Research Sources
http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/index.html
Free to search on the web; locate materials using CLIO
See specifically, the Environmental History Bibliography Database.
Other Databases You Might Want to Try:
JStor
Web of Science
Lexis-Nexis
PAIS
ATLA