FAU
LIBRARIES CATALOG
BOOKS
For example: colonial latin america
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.
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OTHER HELP
D.
Research Help
E.
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.
Early English Books
Online (EEBO) | Full Text |
Contents/Info: 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, Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over 125,000
titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's
Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
Florida Heritage Collection (FHC)
| Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
Contents/Info: An ongoing cooperative project of the
libraries of the state universities of Florida to digitize and provide online
access to materials broadly representing Florida’s history, culture, arts,
literature, sciences and social sciences. Thematic areas in this growing
collection include Native American and minority populations, exploration and
development, tourism, the natural environment, and regional interests. Materials
are taken from archives, special collections, and libraries of the ten state
universities.
Florida Memory Project
| Full Text | Vendor: State Archives of Florida
Contents/Info: The Florida Memory Project presents a
selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida
history, educational resources for students of all ages and archival collections
for historical research. The Project utilizes selected original records,
photographs and other materials from the collections of the State Library and
Archives of Florida.
FloridaCat | Before 1000 BC- present |
Contents/Info: OCLC catalog of books and other materials in Florida
libraries.
Historical Abstracts | 1954-present |
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)
Iter Gateway to
the Middle Ages and Renaissance | 400-1700 | Full Text |
Contents/Info: A Middle Ages and Renaissance bibliography of close
to 500,000 records for articles, essays, books, and reviews.
JSTOR | Full Text |
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)
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) | Full Text |
Contents/Info: Provides access to a large and growing
resource of essential medieval and early modern sources online.
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
Ulrichsweb.com
| Some Full Text |
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)
WorldCat
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.
Web Site
Latin American Network Information Center - LANIC
This research center at the University
of Texas at Austin provides links to subjects such as Economy, Education,
Government, Media and Social Sciences.
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