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American Periodical Series Online, 1740-1900
Connect to APS Online.
APS Online contains the fully searchable text and digitized images of over 1,100 American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Puck, Scientific American, Vanity Fair and the Dial.
Trial ends June 30, 2008.
Please send comments about this product to Lynn Mayo.
Posted 5-29-2008
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Connect to Early English Books Online.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Trial ends June 30, 2008.
Please send comments about this product to Lynn Mayo.
Posted 5-29-2008
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Literature Online (LION)
Connect to LION.
LION contains 190 full-text literary journals, over 6,500 essays of literary criticism from books and texbooks, 22,000 poems, short stories and essays by contemporary authors, 900 Poets on Screen video clips and either reference titles such as Princeton Encycoopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).
Trial ends June 30, 2008.
Please send comments about this product to Lynn Mayo.
Posted 5-29-2008
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Political Science Digital Archives
Includes cover-to-cover electronic access to three important political news magazines.
Posted 6-17-2008
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New Resources
NEW for Spring 2008
GreenFILE
A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest publications on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
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News
JSTOR gets a new look for Spring!
The new JSTOR platform features:
- A new look and feel
- A single, improved format of PDF files, to simplify printing and expand accessibility
- Personalized account functionality, called "MyJSTOR"
- You can store your user information and your saved citations
- You can select one-time acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions for PDF access
- More efficient navigation throughout the site
- The ability to search within result sets
- Thumbnail views of article pages: see full articles at a glance
The new JSTOR is expected to be released the week of March 17th.
Posted 3-14-2008
History databases move to the EBSCO platform
America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts have moved to the EBSCO platform. We hope you like the new look and feel of these two important and highly respected databases. ABC-CLIO's editorial staff will to continue to enhance both databases with new content and their expert indexing.
Posted 1-9-2008
eHRAF World Cultures - a new look, a new name
eHRAF World Cultures, formerly eHRAF Collection of Ethnography, is a cross-cultural database containing information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The database is a work-in-progress with new cultures added annually. Information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.
For help using this database please ask a librarian.
Posted 1-9-2008
Available now! Export citations from ALEX to RefWorks
Follow the steps in the RefWorks FAQ to export full citations directly into your RefWorks account.
What is RefWorks?
It's a web-based bibliography and database management tool. Use RefWorks to organize and store bibliographic references to create a list of works cited in many, many style formats. References can be imported from ALEX (the library catalog) and most of the library's online databases, or entered manually one-by-one.
Sign up for a Refworks account now!
Posted 9-26-2007
Cowabunga!
The OED updated with over 2,600 new and revised words
Check out the new words entered into the Oxford English Dictionary Online.
Posted 9-21-2007
New e-Reference Books added to ALEX
- Defense and Security: A Compendium of National Armed Forces and Security Policies
- Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture
- Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition
- The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History
- Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
- International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd ed.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the U.S.
- Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present
- World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia
Posted 9-21-2007
Polling the Nations - new graphing feature
It's now possible to create a graph for any question in Polling the Nations. Look for the new "Graphic This Question" button at the bottom of each record.
Click the button to export the question to an Excel worksheet. Then create pie charts and bar charts to paste into Word and Power Point for a report or presentation.
Posted 9-21-2007
ARTstor to increase number of 1024 images
By December 2007 ARTstor will make approximately 80 percent of the images in the Digital Library available for larger downloads at 1024 pixels on the long side. This new download capacity is part of ARTstor's ongoing effort to facilitate broad access to digital images for teaching and scholarship. Users will be permitted to download large images (at 1024 pixels) for use in classroom presentations and for other noncommercial, educational uses in the software environment of their choice. Users can also continue to download images at up to 3200 pixels for offline presentations by using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV).
Posted 8-22-2007
The New LexisNexis Academic!
LexisNexis has a new interface that includes a new feature: direct export of citations to RefWorks.
Try the New LexisNexis now.
Watch the online tutorials.
Posted 8-17-2007
AP Images
The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive has been replaced by AP Images, with many more primary source news photos, and an improved search interface.
Posted 8-17-2007
EIU content added to CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online
New content from the EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) has been added to the Atlas section -- basic data, political and economic background information for 201 countries.
Posted 8-21-07
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(Updated: May 29, 2008) LM
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