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GEA 4275-Dr. Roberts
LIBRARY RESOURCE PAGE
INSTRUCTORS :
LYN LAVIGNE
mlavigne@fau.edu
297-4318
ALYSE ERGOOD
aergood@fau.edu
297-0204
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: global warming--flooding
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
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy) 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 - Now '360 Search a tool that allows
users to search multiple databases from one interface.
OTHER HELP
E.
Research Help
F.
What's Your Major
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.
Academic Search Premier | 1975-present | Full Text
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.
BasicBIOSIS | 1998-present |
Contents/Info:
Covers the basic core of life science journals found in college and
university libraries and written for undergraduate non-biology
majors. Includes popular and scholarly science journals.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | Some Full Text |
Contents/Info:
Content coverage includes the life sciences, environmental, aquatic
sciences, social sciences, computer technology and engineering.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management |
1981-present | Some Full Text |
Contents/Info:
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management provides abstracts
from over 6000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources,
including conference proceedings, reports, books, and government
publications in the environmental sciences.
ProQuest Digital Dissertations see
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | 1861-present
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.
Academic OneFile | 1980-present | Full Text |
Contents/Info:
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text
articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources
with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology,
medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other
subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York
Times back to 1995.
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition | Some Full Text |
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.
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
Contents/Info:
Provides access to to over 5 million records of dissertations and
theses available in OCLC member libraries catalogs in the WorldCat
database. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge,
directly from the publishing institution.
SPECIALIZED DATABASES (for additional help):
Applied Science and Technology Full Text |
1983-present | Some Full Text |
Contents/Info:Indexes the latest findings in every area of
science, engineering, and technology covering trade and industrial
publications, journals issued by professional and technical
societies, and specialized subject periodicals. Abstracting coverage
begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Full Text
coverage begins in 1997.
Elsevier Science Direct | Full Text |
Contents/Info: 1,100+ scholarly journals in
engineering, science, and social science disciplines.
Ulrichsweb.com
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
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.
Wiley InterScience | Some Full Text |
Contents/Info: More than 300 online publications
for researchers and professionals.
CITING SOURCES A
helpful site for general information on writing papers and citing
sources is
APA Formatting and Style Guide
ADDITIONAL HELP
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