English 101

MLA Guides

MLA Style Samples
Citing Articles from Library Sources in MLA style 

Histories and Overviews

Gale Virtual Reference Library - search using specific terms

Gale Student Resources in Context

Gale World History in Context

Articles: scholarly and otherwise

www.lahc.edu/library/databases.html

Select All EBSCO Databases

Select: Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Click Continue.

This sets up your search within the 3 collections that you selected.

Enter keywords, or set up your search further by mousing over the Subjects tab.

This helps you

a) select the precise subject term to match your concept, and

b) brainstorm for terms that you may not have thought of.

Library Catalog

Use as few carefully selected (and correctly spelled) words as possible, particularly in the library catalog.

Use the connector ‘AND” to combine search terms while searching the catalog.

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