FAU Libraries New Electronic Resources

African American Music Reference | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 07/01/07
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Contents/Info: African American Music Reference will bring together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1900 | 1690-1900 | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Series II (1758-1900) has been added 05/07/08
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Contents/Info: Early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states.  Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876) and Series II (1758-1900).

Archivision Digital Library see ARTstor | Vendor: ARCHIVISION INC.
Added 02/22/08
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Contents/Info:  The Archivision Digital Library is a core architecture collection of 28,000 images covering important Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th and 19th Century, Islamic and Modern sites, gardens, parks and works of public art.  [ If you want to be able to make full use of ARTstor, you will need to register.  You may register on campus or off campus via EZproxy.]

ATLA Serials Online  | 1950-present | Full Text | Vendor: ATLA
Added: 05/01/07
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Contents/Info: FAU now has access to the full text of the American Theological Library Association's (ATLA) online journals. The individual titles can be accessed from the Electronic Journals page and are indexed in EBSCO's ATLA Religion Database.

Black Drama | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 05/15/07
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Contents/Info: This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Black Short Fiction | Mid-1900s - Present | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 05/15/07 
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Contents/Info: The most comprehensive collection of African and African-Diaspora stories yet created. When complete, it will feature the English-language literature of more than 15 countries, along with francophone authors from Africa and the Caribbean. In addition, the collection will include literature in languages that have their origins in African countries and are still present in some regions today, such as the Gullah language of South Carolina.

Black Women Writers | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
Added: 05/15/07
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Contents/Info: With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, Black Women Writers brings together the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, these authors have had to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings.  Presenting works from many different countries in three continents, and a variety of cultural experiences, the database gives a view of black women’s struggles through time; the challenges of a group facing issues that are, together, unique to this literature.

Caribbean Literature | 19th-20th Centuries | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 05/15/07
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Contents/Info: A searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected by our editors are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers.

ebrary | Vendor: ebrary, inc.
Added: 05/06/08
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Contents/Info: Collection of electronic books purchased by the FAU Libraries.

Education Index Retrospective | 1929-1983 | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
Added: 05/21/07
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Contents/Info:  Delivers cover-to-cover indexing of an international range of acclaimed English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks.  The database reflects more than six decades of Wilson’s Education Index.

EmeraldManagementXtra | Full Text | Vendor: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
We now have access to Emerald Backfiles - coverage goes back to volume 1 issue 1
Added: 05/08/08
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Contents/Info: The world's largest, most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed management articles and resources for researchers, librarians, teachers, students and deans in the management field.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996 | 1974-1996 | Full Text | Vendor: Readex
Added: 05/07/08
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Contents/Info: FBIS Daily Reports consists of translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals and government statements from nations around the globe.

Gale Directory Library | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Added: 12/01/07
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Contents/Info: Gale Directory Library is an online collection of premier directories, expanding your power to search for directory entries in a variety of ways, as well as giving you quick and easy digital ways to view and store the data you find. You can search a single eDirectory or across an entire collection of eDirectories.

GreenFILE | Some Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
Added: 04/02/08
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Contents/Info: GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.

Greenwood Digital Collection | Full Text | Vendor: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Added: 04/07/08
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Contents/Info: A collection of electronic books from Greenwood Publishing Group.

Historical Chicago Defender | 1910-1975 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Added 06/29/07
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Contents/Info: Black Studies Center provides the full text backfile, from 1910 to 1975, of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender. Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905 and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read black newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago. When Abbott died in 1940, his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of the Defender, which began publishing on a daily basis in 1956.

Historical Los Angeles Times | 1881-1985 |  Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Added: 05/17/07
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Contents/Info: This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Historical New York Amsterdam News | 1962-1993 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Added 06/29/07
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Contents/Info: The Amsterdam News was founded as a six-page weekly covering local news by James Henry Anderson in 1909. Under the ownership of C. B. Powell and Philip M. H. Savory from 1938, it became the largest black community weekly in the United States. Contributors to the newspaper have included W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins and Malcolm X.

Index to Jewish Periodicals | 1988-present | Vendor: EBSCO
Added: 05/01/07
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Contents/Info: The definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Titles include Contemporary Jewry, Holy Land Studies, Jewish Culture & History, Journal of Palestine Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and many more. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.

Inspec Archive | 1898-1968 | Some Full Text | Vendor: Elsevier
Added: 06/05/07
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Contents/Info: The Inspec Archive provides access to historical scientific records in the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics computing and control engineering. With the digitizing of the entire collection of Science Abstracts Journals, which are the precursors to the Inspec database, librarians, academics and students are provided access to over 873,000 abstract records spanning the years 1898 through 1968. 

LGBT Life with Full Text | Some Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
Added: 05/01/07
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Contents/Info: This resource contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms. Full text content available in LGBT Life with Full Text includes The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, Washington Blade, and many more.

The Nation Archive | 1865-present | Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
Added: 05/01/07
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Contents/Info: The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion since its inception in 1865. The Nation has long been regarded as one of the country's definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture, books and the arts and continues to stand as the independent voice in American journalism. James Baldwin, Ralph Nader and Hunter Thompson published their first pieces in The Nation. Other contributors have included Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Emma Goldman and Jean-Paul Sartre. The Nation has a proud literary history as well, having published the work of W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Henry James, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann and hundreds of other major writers. This database contains indexing & abstracting and full text for the complete archive of The Nation beginning with its first issue in 1865 through to the present.

Public Administration Abstracts |1974-present |  Vendor: EBSCO
Added: 04/16/08
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Contents/Info: Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

 R2Library | Full Text | Vendor: Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc.
Added: 06/13/07
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Contents/Info: R2 is a web-based application that aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform. This service is available exclusively through hospital, academic, and institutional libraries. This resource provides access to the 73 titles in the "Nursing Library."

Science Classic | Full Text | Vendor: AAAS
We now have access to Science Classic - 1880 to 1996
Added: 05/01/07
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Contents/Info:  Provides access to the full text of Science's print version and to additional online-only enhancements.  This resource allows you to search within Science and across a multitude of scientific journals.

Times Digital Archive | 1785-1985 | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Added: 05/23/07
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Contents/Info: Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.  . 

World Development Indicators (WDI) | Full Text | Vendor: The World Bank
Added 02/04/08
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Contents/Info: WDI publication is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The 2007 WDI includes more than 900 indicators in over 80 tables organized in six sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.