These resources can help you come up with dates, names, additional vocabulary and variant spellings for your research. They can also help you develop a better understanding of your topic or give you ideas for comparisons and contrasts.
If you are finding your references to journal articles or books from other books and articles--look them up in Articles+ or the Franklin Catalog.
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** Use Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, but also the Museum Library and the Fine Arts Library
What if the book you are looking for is checked out or worse yet missing? You have access to the collections of all of the Ivy League libraries (Borrow Direct), all of the Pennsylvania and surrounding libraries (EZ Borrow), and in fact most of the libraries in this country (ILL). We have access to more than a billion journal and newspaper articles and book chapters, but we don't have access to all of them. What do you do when doesn't connect you to the article. It can be as easy as clicking the "request" button:
To learn more about all of your options, visit a guide that describes EZ Borrow, Borrow Direct, ILL, and more.
Old Corinth. The Ruins of Old Corinth. From the Collections
at the Library of Congress
For information on using different citation management tools connect to: http://guides.library.upenn.edu/citationmgmt
Access Penn's subscription to the Chicago Manuel Online
For good examples for a variety of formats see the Excelsior Owl formatting guides connect to: