bibliographic requests

[Jane A. Edwards]

I usually use keyword or author search on the electronic versions of:
Current Contents, Psych Abstracts, Social Science Citations Abstracts,
MLA, and UC library holdings.  Once you "break into the loop", in terms
of finding even a few references of interest to you, you can expand the
loop by looking up the references mentioned in those sources.
These resources help bridge the gap also between literatures in different
languages because, for example, a university's library holdings
include books in other languages, and so do Psych Abstracts. Current
Contents includes articles in other languages but translates their titles
into English.  The library needs to invest money to have these things
online.  Where they are not available, the standard search engines on the
Web should work.  I have used the web to find references by particular
author.  It simply took a little longer.

-Jane Edwards