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The purpose of this guide is to help first-year students develop their ability to locate, evaluate, and use information in a variety of formats, laying the foundation for becoming independent life-long learners.
Academic OneFile 
1980 - current. Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Most references include full-text or links to full-text. Contains all of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage of scientific journals is limited. Shortcuts: go/onefile (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/onefile (off-campus).
JSTOR
Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off campus).
Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years, from articles as far back as 1665, up through 1995. Includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages--with links to full text, when available. Formerly PCI.
Project Muse
Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).
Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It is similar to Web of Science (Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index) but also includes arts and humanities resources.
Shortcut: go/scopus (on campus) or http://go.middlebury.edu/scopus (off-campus)
Summon 
Summon is our newest and most effective tool for searching many resources at once, so we’ve put it right at the center of the library home page (look for the “Summon” tab in the “Library Quick Search” box). Summon searches most library resources including MIDCAT, full-text newspapers and journals, and most of our library databases. Read more about it in the LIS blog. Watch a video tutorial.
Middlebury College Libraries Newspapers Guide 
Directs you to all current and historical newspaper resources available at Middlebury.
Multiple E-Reference Collections
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of subject-specific encyclopedias published by Gale. Search across the whole collection or narrow your search by subject area or title of reference work.
Online Reference Resources (E-Ref Guide)
This Middlebury Library Subject Guide provides links to online reference resources including online dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, directories, and much more. Go shortcut = go/eref.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
General reference resources, including encyclopedias, bilingual dictionaries, chronologies, and maps and illustrations.
Vermont Online Library (Gale)
The Vermont Online Library (Gale) provides access to over a dozen different databases ranging from business, health, computer, and newspaper databases to K-12 resources. Both academic and popular materials are included as well as some full-text. See individual database descriptions for details.
Video, Image, and Sound Effects Subject Guide 
Search for videos, audio files, images, sound effects, and more.
Access Science
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online.
Provides authoritative information for non-specialists on a wide variety of science-related topics. Includes the 20-volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms and the Yearbooks of Science & Technology in addition to biographies from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography, selected Science News articles, and links to evaluated web sites. Shortcuts: go/accsci (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/accsci (off-campus).
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Academic edition. Search by subject or keyword. In addition to topical essays, timelines, images, and videos, it provides links to full text journal articles and links to related websites.
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
A guide by Elizabeth Kirk, Johns Hopkins University Libraries. Nicely lays out the criteria for consideration.
Evaluating Web Content
Guide from the University at Albany Libraries.
Five criteria for evaluating Web pages
Information from Cornell University's Olin & Uris libraries.
Internet Detective Tutorial (Evaluating Internet Resources)
British site Intute: Best of the Web tutorial on evaluating Internet resources. Also see their other tutorials that help with finding information by discipline.
ARTStor
A digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
Video, Image, and Sound Effects Subject Guide
Search for videos, audio files, images, sound effects, and more.
Book Reviews Subject Guide
For additional sources of book reviews, see the separate Book Reviews Guide.
Statistics Guide
For statistics on a broad range of topics--crime, demographics, children, labor, etc.--this statistics guide has links to both national and international resources.
Video, Image, and Sound Effects Subject Guide
Search for videos, audio files, images, sound effects, and more.
Citation and Style Guides
Created by Middlebury College librarians. A guide to writing papers & citing sources.
