Resources For Students

History of the Modern Islamic World

• Gale Virtual Reference Library provides access to:
  • Encyclopedia of Islam and the Modern World
  • Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
  • Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Cambridge Companion to the Qu'ran
• Europa World Plus provides overviews and histories of nations.

Art and Architecture of the United Kingdom

• Grove Art Online provides overviews of architecture and architects
• Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the Oxford Reference Online
• Art Full Text includes articles covering archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, landscape architecture, and much more.
• JSTOR contains in-depth articles on art, architecture and art history.
• London Times(1785-1985), the complete digital edition.

Western Heritage 212 and 313

• Gale Virtual Reference Library provides access to:
  • Arts & Humanities Through the Eras
  • Encyclopedia of European Social History
  • Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students
  • Europe: 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
• Grove Art Online provides overviews of all aspects of art.
• Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism
• Cambridge Collections also includes companions to philosophers and other seminal figures in Western thought such as Rousseau, Kant and Adam Smith.

Modern Drama

• Literature Resource Center provides access to literary criticism and biographies of dramatists.
• JSTOR  provides access to journal articles on the performing arts.
• Literature Online (LION) provides access to drama, poetry and prose, as well as full-text access to literature journals.
• London Times (1785-1985) the complete digital edition.

Organizational Behavior

• Library electronic resources for Organizational Behavior
• Conference Board contains reports on topics such as Organizational Design, Employee Engagement/Satisfaction and Leadership Development.
• Encyclopedia of Management in Gale Virtual Reference Library.
• Dictionary of Human Resource Management in Oxford Reference Online.

British Music

• Grove Music Online: In addition to being an excellent resource for information on music and musicians, Grove has digital sound clips.
• Naxos Music Library offers over 75,000 tracks of music online.
• Classical Music Library contains over 27,000 musical recordings online.
• JSTOR offers articles on historic British music.

Important Library Links

• Pepperdine Libraries' Homepage
• Library Catalog
• All Library Databases
• Journal Title Search: Use this to find out which journals are available full-text.
• Government Information Center