Dance: A Guide to Library Resources and Research: Research Tools and Tips

The Cornell University Library homepage is a convenient place to find guidance on aspects of the research process. See the links in this guide for Introduction to Research, Citation Management, and more. 

For off-campus access to online resources, begin your search on the library homepage and log in if prompted when connecting to subscription-only resources, or consider installing Access Anywhere in your web browser for direct access.

• Search the Library Catalog (for books) and Articles & Full Text (for articles) to locate specific items cited in bibliographies, and to see what else may be available. If you are looking for a chapter from a book, search the title of the book rather than the title of the chapter. If you are looking for a journal article, search the title of the article, rather than the title of the journal. Exception: If you are looking for an article in a print journal, rather than electronic, search the title of the journal in the library catalog.
• See the Cornell University Library homepage for access to these resources.

• JSTOR is great, but don't stop there, because you may be missing out on newer content that is not yet available in JSTOR. Be sure to search in multiple databases, both general and discipline-specific.
• If you find a thesis or dissertation of interest in ProQuest, be sure to search for publications by the same author in the Library Catalog and the Articles & Full Text search. That author may have published articles or a book on the same topic or related topics.
• See the Articles, Databases, and Electronic Journals page for access to these resources.