Your Librarian
Amanda Peach
she/her
Contact:
Office: Hutchins Library 215
CPO LIB
Hutchins Library
Berea College
Berea, KY 40404
CPO LIB
Hutchins Library
Berea College
Berea, KY 40404
859.985.3279
Website
Background Information
Option 1: Browse the print reference collection, starting at the call # REF 950 E61 v.1
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Option 2: Search our online reference database, Gale Virtual Reference
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Option 3: Wikipedia
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Option 4: AI (ChatGPT or Google Gemini)
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Option 5: Try them all!
Virtual Reference
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Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowGale Virtual Reference Library offers a wide variety of full-text interdisciplinary content on virtually any subject area to support assignments, papers, projects, and presentations. Includes the Scribner Writers Series.
Ai Generators
Scholarly Article Databases
Popular Culture
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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowCommunication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. **EBSCO**
Religion and Spirituality:
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Religion Database This link opens in a new windowReligion Database covers formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many, worldwide religions.
Education:
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Education Research Complete This link opens in a new windowEducation Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.
Families, kinship, social organization:
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Family & Society Studies Worldwide This link opens in a new windowFamily & Society Studies Worldwide™ is a core resource providing the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. FSSW is an anthology of 4 database files providing access to more than 1.3 million records. Coverage spans from 1970 to the present.
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Sociological Collection This link opens in a new windowThis database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
All subjects:
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. **EBSCO**
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. **EBSCO**
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Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals. **EBSCO**
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals and thousands of e-books across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull text of approximately 40 scholarly journals in the humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage for some titles extends back to 1993.
Citation Mining
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Google ScholarYou can search Google Scholar using the citations for existing works and sometimes you will find a full-text copy of the article.
Google Scholar also allows you to "cite forward" its articles; in other words, you can see who has cited a particular article, to determine further developments in this line of research and find additional related sources.
Managing your sources
Zotero is a tool that helps you to collect, manage, and cite your references
Search the library catalog
Use the box below to search our library catalog for print books, ebooks, academic articles, DVDs, and streaming films about your topic.
As was the case in our EBSCO databases, using subject terms instead of keywords will help narrow results
News
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Access World News This link opens in a new windowFull text from nearly 3,700 U.S. and 2,300 International newspapers. Direct links are available to search Kentucky and Appalachian Region newspapers, major metro titles, international resources, newswires, broadcast transcripts, America's news magazines, world and US newspapers.
Environmental Impact of Ai
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Explained: Generative AI’s Environmental ImpactMIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Explained: Generative AI’s Environmental Impact,” January 17, 2025. https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117.
