Research
Help
- Research Tips and Tricks
- Citing Sources
- Citation style guides, when and how to cite, and citation management tools
- Research by Subject
- Find research resources by subject or course curated by Bowdoin librarians
- Research Librarians by Subject
- Get help with your research from a specialist
- Copyright
- Members of the College community are expected to follow the tenets of both U.S. Copyright and policies governing copyright at Bowdoin.
Tools and Resources
- Quick Reference
- Search hundreds of general & specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical sources, and other reference material
- OneSearch
- The scholarly alternative to Google! Search for articles, books, audio & video, and primary material
- Databases
- Specialized tools for finding articles, books, data, and more
- CBBcat
- Limited to Colby, Bates, & Bowdoin books, audio and video, government documents; excludes articles
- Government Documents
- Federal and Maine
- George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives
- Rare books, manuscripts, college archives, and other primary materials documenting the history of Bowdoin, Maine, and beyond