FAU Libraries New Electronic Resources

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info: This release contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs.  The product includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the diary of Maryland Planter William Claytor.  The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long. 

American History in Video | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info: American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release includes over 1260 titles, equaling approximately 420 hours.

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities - Business Directories | Full Text | Vendor: Cabell Pub.
Added: 06/06/08
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Contents/Info:  Cabell's Directory helps authors determine which journal will most likely accept their manuscript by comparing the characteristics of the manuscript and the needs of each journal.  The following Business directories are included in this subscription:  Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, and Marketing.

CAMIO | Vendor: OCLC
Added: 03/05/09
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Contents/Info: CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.

Core Collections  | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
Added: 03/05/09
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Contents/Info: Includes Graphic Novels Core Collection, Children's Core Collection, Middle and Junior High Core Collection, Senior High Core Collection, Non-Book Materials Core Collection, Public Library Core Collection: Fiction, and Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction.  Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, a descriptive annotation, notes about related works, and evaluative quotations from a review when available.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info:  Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. When complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 53,200 pages of material, including more than 13,000 pages of session transcripts, more than 21,000 pages of client narratives, and more than 18,000 pages of secondary reference material.

Counseling and Therapy in Video | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info: Online collection of videos available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion

Dance in Video | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 06/10/08
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Contents/Info: Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. This release includes 47 videos, equalling 82 hours.

Early Encounters in North America | Full Text |Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info:  Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info:  The Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines web site makes it possible for you to discover the lively news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and even advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion in this era.

Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info: Provides a vivid visual history of a nation in crisis. Thousands of dramatic images from the fields of battle, politics, and general society allow students and researchers to experience the events, both monumental and mundane, of the war that tested and defined the core meaning of America. The database currently holds over 1400 images.

North American Indian Thought and Culture  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info:   Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories.

North American Theatre Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info:  A comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference materials, together with records to approximately 30,000 plays, 57,000 people, 5,400 theatres, 22,000 productions, and 2,500 production companies.

North American Women's Drama  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info: Contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.  More than 30% of the plays in the collection have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the play.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info: Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added 02/23/2009
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Contents/Info: Brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.

Social Theory | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info: Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization.  The current release features more than 90,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Ulrich Beck, Howard Becker, Nancy Chodorow, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, Robert Merton, and Talcott Parsons.

SourceOECD | Full Text | Vendor: OECD
Added: 11/10/08
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Contents/Info: Online access to all OECD books, reports, annuals, working papers, loose-leaf binders, periodicals and databases.

Tests in Print | Vendor: EBSCO
Added: 01/02/09
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Contents/Info: Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). This bibliography can also serve as a guide to test reviews published in Mental Measurements Yearbook.

Theatre in Video | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info: Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 242 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Added: 07/03/08
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Contents/Info: Brings together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

Twentieth Century North American Drama | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
Added: 04/02/09
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Contents/Info:  Contains 1,530 plays by 223 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. More than 150 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors.

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia  | Tenth Edition | Full Text | Vendor: Wiley InterScience
Added: 03/05/09
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Contents/Info: The definitive scientific resource with topics ranging across all scientific disciplines.