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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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Women’s Issues Database Added

Contemporary Women’s Issues (Gale) is a multidisciplinary database providing full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries, bringing together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, “gray” literature, and the alternative press. Coverage from 1992 to present.

Posted under General/Multi-Subject, News & Current Issues – April 22nd, 2009, 10:20 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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EndNote Web

You can now use EndNote Web to collect and manage your citations — even produce a “Works Cited” list. Go to the EndNote Web start page to create your account. See Managing Citations Using EndNote Web for more information.

Posted under Arts & Humanities, General/Multi-Subject, Government Publications, News & Current Issues, Science & Technology, Services, Social Sciences & Education – August 4th, 2008, 11:31 am
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