JSTOR (Journal Storage) is an electronic archive of academic journals. JTCC subscribes to four of JSTOR’s collections, which gives students and faculty to approximately 550 journals. The collections are particularly strong in the humanities, notably history, language, literature, political science, art, and philosophy. JSTOR journals work on a moving wall system; there is a time [...]
The Modern Language Association published a major update of the manual this year. MLA style is a popular citation style at John Tyler; this change will affect multiple disciplines.
This 7th edition has changed the rules for citing sources to make things clearer in electronic sources and bibliographies.
No underlining. MLA now asks for italicizing the titiles [...]
Get the full story when you search for articles–ask for full text.
Thousands of articles are available for free through the library’s EBSCO databases, but you have to know how to ask for them.
To find the entire article when searching, click the Full Text box in the main search page. (Check here for an example–the [...]
Scholarly Journals are magazines that publish new findings, research and commentary from people in the academic field of study. Unlike popular magazines (like People or Sports Illustrated) scholarly journals have few photographs, have longer articles with in-depth analysis, and often treat a narrow element of a larger subject. Articles like this are excellent sources for [...]