For locating books, journals, videos, and electronic resources held at Tri-College libraries. Delivery within trico - one or two day turnaround. Use "Request" option. You can mark and then email or print records for multiple items.

A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

The books and articles you need for your research may not be available within the Tri-colleges. We have several systems available to help you retrieve the materials you need. See this page to place your requests.

Excellent encyclopedia on food and food-related issues, around the world and across time.  Each article includes a long bibliography, leading you to other books and journal articles.

This website, maintained by Robert Dirks at Illinios State University, provides citations to books and articles in English on food and foodways.  Access recommended resources by region of the world or by topic.  Excellent starting place!

Well-regarded medical encyclopedias; full text of the home edition and the professional edition are available online.

Consumer health information clearinghouse from the National Library of Medicine.

Contains ethnographic and other documents describing the cultures of the world. Includes books, journal articles, and dissertations that are compiled into culture profiles. Many documents are in full-text.

•  Ten volume set, organized by area of the world

•  Provides detailed background information on cultures, including demographics, customs, kinship, economy, and medical practices.

For quick background information on almost any country. Updated weekly.

Provides abstracts on journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present.

Offers information on journals kept at the Anthropology Library of the British Museum. Provides citations on a large number of titles in all areas of anthropology. Covers 1957-present.

Provides full text articles from American Anthropological Association journals, newsletters, and bulletins. Covers 1888-present.

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in the fields of sociology, social work and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Covers 1963-present.

Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.

Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.

Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work (CITED REF search). Coverage varies.

Full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials. Includes NY Times (1980-current)

Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 700 newspapers around the globe, including the NY Times (2000-present). Database covers 1977-present.

Offers full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. In English and Spanish, it offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Covers 1990-present.

Search the full text from 1995 to present.  This intelligent newsletter provides straightforward information on issues in health and nutrition.  Published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.