Course-Specific Research Pages

GE Cluster 21ABC: History of Modern Thought

This page will help you identify, locate and evaluate information for this class.

Links to sections:

• Writing a paper - How to Get Started
• Selected Online Encyclopedias
• Selected Websites
• Selected Subject encyclopedias - Print Sources
• Finding books
• Finding articles
• Periodical shelving locations
• Using information effectively
• Other sources

Writing a paper - How to Get Started

• How to Narrow or Broaden Your Topic
• Selecting the Right Source

Selected Online Encyclopedias

• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (UCLA only)
  General encyclopedia licensed for use by the UCLA students, staff and faculty. Some articles include links to other web sites.
• Biography
  Commercial site that features search access to "25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present." Some biographies are much more detailed than others.
• Encyclopedia of world biography
  Presents brief biographical sketches which provide vital statistics as well as information on the importance of the person listed.
  v.24. Gale virtual reference library. Restricted to UCLA
  v.25. Gale virtual reference library. Restricted to UCLA
  v.1-23. via Thomson Gale Gale virtual reference library. Restricted to UCLA

Selected Websites

• The Galileo Project sponsored by Rice University, Texas
• The Newton Project sponsored by the Imperial College, London
• Project Gutenberg the largest single collection of free electronic books (over 16,000) including many titles discussed in this course.

Selected Subject Encyclopedias - Print Sources

• Dictionary of Scientific Biography (18 vols.)
  College Ref. Wall and YRL Ref: Q141.D562 1981
• The Scientific Revolution: an encyclopedia
  College Ref. Wall and Biomed Ref: Q127.E8 B87 2001
• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
  College Ref. Wall and YRL Ref: B802.W48 1996
• The New Cambridge Modern History (14 vols.)
  College Ref. Wall and YRL Ref: D208.N42 1957
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas: studies of selected pivotal ideas (5 vols.)
  College Ref. Wall: CB5.D562
• Great Books of the Western World (61 vols.)
  College Ref. Case and Stacks: PN6013.G79 1990
• Key Ideas in Human Thought
  College Ref. Wall: B41.K48 1993
• The Dictionary of Feminist Theory
  College Ref. Wall:HQ1115.H85 1990
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (19 vols.)
  College Ref. Wall and YRL Ref: H40.A2.I61
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (10 vols.)
  College Ref. Wall and Stacks, YRL Ref.: B 51 R68 1998
• The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers
  YRL Ref. Desk: B41.U77c 1989
• The Columbia History of Western Philosophy
  College Library, and YRL: B72 .C593 1999
• Science in Europe, 1500-1800: Secondary Sources Reader
  YRL: Q127.E8 S354 2002
• Isaac Newton by James Gleick
  College Library and YRL: QC16. N7 G55 2003
• Distilling Knowledge, Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution
  Request from SRLF: QD15. M67 2005
• Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700
  College Library: Q125.2 .J33 1999; YRL: Q125.2 .J33 1998
• The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
  YRL: B801 .C345 2006
• The Life of Adam Smith by Ian Simpson Ross
  College Library and YRL: HB103.S6 R67 1995
• The Declaration of Independence: A Global History by David Armitage
  YRL: E221 .A735 2007

Finding books

Find books at UCLA using the UCLA Library Catalog.
Learn how to use it
More information on finding books

Useful subject headings:

People:

• Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
• Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
• Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650
• Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
• Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
• Hume, David, 1711-1776
• Locke, John, 1632-1704
• Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
• Newton , Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727
• Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
• Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

Movements and Topics:

• Enlightenment
• Europe —Civilization—History
• Europe —Intellectual life
• Feminism History
• France --History--Revolution, 1789-1799
• Great Britain--History-- Civil War , 1642-1649.
• Industrial revolution
• Philosophy--History
• Philosophy, Modern
• Political science--History
• Political Science—Philosophy
• Religion—Philosophy
• Revolutions
• Science--History
• Science—Philosophy
• Sociology--History
• Sociology—Philosophy
• Technology--History

Finding articles

Find article indexes by subject

Useful article indexes

• Academic Search Complete
• Francis
• Index to English Literary Periodicals 1681 to 1914
• JSTOR
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine
• PCI: Periodicals contents index
• Philosopher's Index
• Poole's Plus: The Digital Index of the 19th Century
• Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) via Web of Knowledge

Scholarly or Popular Articles

How to read a citation

Periodical shelving locations

Locate magazines, journals, and newspapers in UCLA libraries.

• Locate periodicals at UCLA using the Library Catalog (learn how to use)
• Locate periodicals at UCLA using CDL Periodical Titles

Using information effectively

• How to Write a Research Paper
• Plagiarism
• How Not to Plagiarize
• Writing Style Manuals

Other sources

• Clark Memorial Library
  A rare books and manuscripts collection, with particular strengths in English literature, philosophy, science and history (1641-1800) Located off campus. Freshmen welcome!
• Need Help? Ask a Librarian!