Skyline College Library

Researching Issues from Sophocles’ Antigone

Databases for Finding Newspaper, Magazine & Journal Articles
Catalog for Finding Books
Evaluating Web Resources

Full-text of Antigone by Sophocles
From the Internet Classics Archive. Use the “Find in Page” (Ctrl-F) in your browser to search for specific words or phrases in the text of the play.

Databases for Magazine & Journal Articles

(What is the difference between popular magazines and academic journals?)

Gale Literature Resource Center - on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
High quality full-text literary criticism & biographical information on authors.

JSTOR - Scholarly journals archives - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Back issues of important academic journals, including many historical journals (no current issues) going back to 1838. Best for in-depth academic journal articles on all historical topics except recent history and articles published within the last 3 – 5 years

Google Scholar
Google’s academic search engine accesses a wide range of academic articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, and universities.
Often only abstracts (summaries) are included in sources retrieved by Google Scholar. In most cases, you can retrieve the full-text of these articles by using the Skyline College Library Article Delivery Service.

Books

The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System.

• Type in search word(s) for your topic in the first search box and click the Submit button.
• The search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the PLS system.
• To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library, scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select Skyline College & then click the Submit button.

Evaluating web sources

Use the guidelines in Evaluating Web Pages to decide whether the following sources are appropriate to use for a college-level research paper:

1. Antigone (Sophocles)

2. Law and Order in Sophocles's Antigone

3. Sophocles Life and Plays

4. Madness And Logic In Antigone

5. Creon and Antigone

6. Sophocles, Pericles and Creon

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last revised: 5-5-11 by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA