Contents:

• Find background information
• Find books
• Find journal articles
• Find articles in the alternative press
• Key websites
• Related research guides

• $300 award for a paper or project of any length from a 100 or 200 level Wellesley College course (2 awards)
• $750 award for a paper or project of any length from a 300 level Wellesley College course, excluding 360s, and 370s (1 award)
• Deadline: April 1, 2008

• The ABC-CLIO Companion to Utopian Movements - Clapp Ref HX626 .H65 1998
• Encyclopedia of American Studies - Clapp Ref E169.1 E625
• Encyclopedia of American Social Movements - Clapp Ref HN57 .E594 2004
• Encyclopedia of American Social History - Clapp Ref HN57 .E58 1993
• Encyclopedia of Religion - great bibliographic support for entries
• Encyclopedia of Social Theory
• Encyclopedia of Utopian Literature - Clapp Ref PN56.U8 S66 1995
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
• Utopias and Utopians: An Historical Dictionary

Use the Wellesley library catalog to find books, videos, and journals (not individual articles). Use a keyword search to find material on your topic, then check the subject headings (under the Full Record tab) to find similar work.

some useful subject headings for your research might be:

• collective settlements
• communal living
• utopias
• utopias - history
• utopias - history - 20th century
• utopias - religious aspects
• do a subject search for "utopias" to find additional subject headings
  
  

• if our copy is checked out, click on to the right of the title to request a book quickly (2-4 days)
• Search WorldCat to find material we don’t own, click on and request through ILL (interlibrary loan)
• In a hurry? Get a BLC card and borrow the book directly from a nearby library

try these databases...

• Academic Search Premier - multidisciplinary
• JSTOR | Project Muse - multidisciplinary
• America History and Life - articles on American hsitory, published from 1964 - present
• Web of Science - humanities, science, and social science
• MLA Bibliography - literature and language
  

Find articles in the alternative press

• Gender Watch (1974 - present)
• Alt-Press Watch (1995 - present)
• Ethnic NewsWatch (1990 - present)
• Research guide: News resources

• Google Scholar
• Fellowship for Intentional Communities
• Communal Studies Association
• Resource page - supplements the New York Public Library's exhibition on utopias - check out the related links
• Utopian Communities in the United States (contemporary)
  

Research guides

• History
• Primary sources
• Religion
• Sociology

Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Alana Kumbier • last modified: September 24, 2008