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VICTORIAN AGE
EUH 5905
Librarian: Madelyn Witt La Vigne
 

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How to Find Library Resources & Electronic Resources

 

1.                   Finding Books:

 

Aleph:  click on “Catalog” or “Books”. 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.

It is suggested that for keyword searching it is best to immediately go to the advanced search.

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.  Good cross-references can be obtained through this search.                                          

 

2.         Finding Articles (Use EZ Proxy link for off-campus access)

Interlibrary Loan

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3.            Other Help

      Research Help

NEW                Central Search

Databases

 

Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®  | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group 
Instructions for off-campus access via EZproxy
Contents/Info: A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

 

Cambridge Journals Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Cambridge
Instructions for off-campus access via EZproxy
Contents/Info: Provides access to full text journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. [Select "Subscribed Journals" from the first dropdown menu]

 

 

Dissertation Abstracts see ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | 1861-present | Vendor: ProQuest
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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. SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1  

 

Historical Abstracts  | 1954-present |  Vendor: ABC-CLIO
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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)

 

InfoTrac OneFile  | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.                                                                                                 

 

JSTOR  | Full Text | Vendor: JSTOR
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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)

 

Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info:  Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. [Under 'Limit the current search,' select the desired database.]

 

Literature Online (LION) | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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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.

 

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition  | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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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.

 

Project Muse  | Full Text | Vendor: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Contents/Info: 100+ scholarly journals in humanities, mathematics and social science disciplines

 

Ulrichsweb.com  | Some Full Text | Vendor: R.R. Bowker
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Contents/Info: Provides information on prices, frequency of publication, addresses, publishers' phone and fax numbers, e-mail and Web site addresses for over 270,000 journals, magazines, annuals, series, newspapers, and other periodicals published worldwide.  Identifies special features, such as: the presence of reviews or indexes; whether a journal is refereed; and which indexing/abstracting services cover the periodical. (Includes reviews)

 

 Web of Science | 1945-present | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

 

WorldCat  | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with over 48 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.

 

Selected Websites

http://www.britain-info.org

• BRITISH INFORMATION OFFICE. A site that provides data about all aspects of British life today as well as links to current issues of major British newspapers.

http://www.bl.uk

• THE BRITISH LIBRARY HOME PAGE. The British Library is the single largest library in the United Kingdom.

http://www.sixtiespop.com

• BRITISH  POP CULTURE IN THE 1960s.

http://www.spartacus.shoolnet.co.uk/resource.htm

• THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN. The site includes biographical information about scores of British women.

http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/search/

• THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH. The University of London's center for graduate study in History provides information on books, journal articles, historians, and doctoral dissertations (completed and in progress).

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mhc

• MONUMENTS AND DUST: THE CULTURE OF VICTORIAN LONDON.

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

• THE OXFORD TEXT ARCHIVE. This site contains thousands of digitized primary source materials.

http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html

• THE VICTORIAN WEB. A metasite developed by Professor George Landow of Brown University that contains primary sources as well as biographies of famous Victorians.

http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/vwcont.html

• THE VICTORIA RESEARCH WEB.  A collection of resources affiliated with a discussion network involving all aspects of Victorian culture.

http://www.winstonchurchill.org

• THE WINSTON CHURCHILL HOME PAGE. A site maintained by the Winston Churchill Center in Washington, D.C.

http://www.victorianstation.com (Syracuse)

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