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ENC 1102 Dr. Gabrielle Gutting
LIBRARY RESOURCE PAGE
INSTRUCTORS : Ken Frankel, Lyn LaVigne
frankel@fau.edu
561-297-0079
mlavigne@fau.edu
561-297-4318
February 26, 2008
The selected sources listed below are useful for finding books, articles, and primary sources.
HOW TO FIND LIBRARY RESOURCES AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG
BOOKS
For example: American southern culture and political thought
Click
on the "Catalog". This source lists the books, government documents,
videos, and other materials owned by the FAU libraries. It will tell
you what books and journals, etc. the library owns. To find the actual
journal articles you may choose to search by subject or keyword in the
databases listed below.
A. Keywords: May search for two keywords using the terms and/or/not to limit search.
B. Author's Name: Use last name first with no commas.
C. Title: If the title begins with A, An or The, skip the first word and begin searching with the next word.
D. Subject: Must be specific to Library of Congress search terms. Use dashes in narrowing your search.
WAYS TO FIND ARTICLES
A. Use EZ Proxy link for off-campus access. The link is on the Libraries' Home Page under Connect from Off Campus
B. Interlibrary Loan a
service through which one library lends an item from its collection, or
provides a photocopy of an item, to another library.
C. SFX
 is extremely helpful in searching for articles that cross databases.
D. Central Search available off of the Library's Home Page provides 360 degree searching of all FAU databases.
OTHER HELP
E. Research Help
F. What's Your Major
G. Research Guides
ELECTRONIC DATABASES
Electronic Databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page at http://www.fau.edu/library by selecting "Indexes/Databases" under the heading "Quick Links." When
accessing the databases remotely, be sure to select the "Off Campus
Connect" link for the "EZProxy" server.
Databases help you locate journal and
magazine articles that are relevant to your specific research topic.
You may search the databases by title or subject.
Literary Criticism:
- Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors
Contents/Info: Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and
their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama,
history, and journalism.
- Literature Online (LION)
Contents/Info: Provides access to more than 350,000 works of English and American
poetry, drama and prose, 180 full-text literature journals, and other
key criticism and reference resources.
- MLA International Bibliography
Contents/Info: Provides a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and
dissertations. The indexed materials coverage is international.
Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore,
literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the
historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and
composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language
and literature are also included.
For General Research and Historical Context:
Contents/Info:
Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic
institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full
text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications,
including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to
the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly
8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers
information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer
sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable
peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from
many sources unique to this database.
America: History and Life
Contents/Info: Covers United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Contents/Info: Content coverage includes the life sciences, environmental, aquatic
sciences, social sciences, computer technology and engineering.
Historic Documents
Contents/Info:
In CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition, you can find the entire
collection of the acclaimed Historic Documents print editions.
Each volume includes approximately one hundred documents covering the
most significant events of the year. These documents range from
presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court
decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and
cultural discussions.
Historical Abstracts
Contents/Info: Indexes journals covering the history of the world from 1450 to the
present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in a
companion database America: History and Life)
JSTOR
Contents/Info: Journal Storage (More than 500 scholarly journals in education,
humanities, mathematics, science [including the General Science
Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social science
disciplines)
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
Contents/Info: Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary
database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full
text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text,
General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full
Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also
included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text,
Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal
Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information
Science Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Each database has
its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start
dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a
database.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Contents/Info: Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited
institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and
foreign language dissertations.
Citation Reference
The Owl at Purdue
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
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