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Customize Your Library Resources

Our subject-based database pages and Multisearch tool have recently been updated. Now you can embed a list of subject-specific librarian-selected databases in your own web page using Javascript or HTML. If you log in, you can also select from Library resources to build custom collections of article databases, research guides, and librarian pages which can be used on our site or embedded in your external page. See Creating and Using Custom Library Resources for more information.

Posted under Arts & Humanities, Business, General/Multi-Subject, Government Publications, News & Current Issues, Science & Technology, Services, Social Sciences & Education – September 16th, 2009, 3:35 pm
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New Electronic Resources

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 is a digital archive of more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Early English Books Online contains digital images of over 125,000 works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere between 1473 and 1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Posted under Arts & Humanities, Business, News & Current Issues – August 4th, 2009, 1:50 pm
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Databases Added

China: Trade, Politics & Culture 1793-1980 is a collection of English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980. Provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from Macartney’s first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.

ProQuest Digital Microfilm provides access to full-page scanned images of newspapers, digitized from microfilm. Title included: Barron’s. Coverage: 2008-

Art Index Retrospective (Wilson) indexes articles from journals published around the world, including yearbooks and select museum bulletins. Cumulative index of Art Index volumes 1-32, 1929-

Posted under Arts & Humanities, General/Multi-Subject, Social Sciences & Education – June 19th, 2009, 3:50 pm
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New Research Tools

The Library has added access to two valuable research tools:

  • Opera Source (OPERA America) — Career resource for administrators, singers, technical/production professionals, teachers, and creative and performing opera artists. Provides information on auditions and other mainstage, training, educational, management, and competition opportunities.
  • Ulrichsweb.com — Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory provides detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types published worldwide: academic and scholarly journals, open access publications, peer-reviewed journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and newsletters.

Posted under Arts & Humanities, General/Multi-Subject – March 9th, 2009, 10:16 am
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Two New Databases

  • Greenfile (EBSCO) indexes scholarly, government and general interest titles covering information on all aspects of human impact on the environment.
  • Literature Criticism Online (GALE) provides full-text access to the literary critical works in classical and medieval, contemporary and twentieth-century literature.

Posted under Arts & Humanities, Government Publications, News & Current Issues, Science & Technology – August 13th, 2008, 2:16 pm
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