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Environment Complete is a full-text database covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. The database also contains full text for more than 650 journals.
Film & Television Literature Index™ with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications (and selected coverage of 301), as well as full text for more than 90 journals and nearly 60 books.
Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) Shaw Shoemaker provides online full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. From Aaron Burr to Zebulon Pike, from abolitionism to Tippecanoe, this unique Web-based collection of primary sources thoroughly chronicles the people, ideas and events behind the early political, social, cultural and geographic growth of the United States.
Value Line Investment Survey Online is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy. It collects data and analyzes performance of approximately 8,000 stocks, 15,000 mutual funds, 80,000 options and other securities.
Mental Measurements & Tests in Print now available online! Mental Measurements YearbookTM (MMY)provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.
Wiley-Blackwell reflects the merger of Wiley InterScience & Blackwell Synergy, resulting in access to 3 million articles in 1400 journals, with backfiles, and 6000 ebooks. So if you are looking for the Blackwell journals, those titles are now incorporated into InterScience (Wiley).
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database
Last year we added dissertations in the Humanities, Education & Social Sciences; this year we’re completing the coverage by adding the sciences. With more than 2.3 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. Of the millions of graduate works listed, we offer over 1.9 million in full text format.
LGBT FT contains full text for more than 70 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 100 full-text monographs/books. Start here for your research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender topics.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers, San Francisco Chronicle, 1865-1922 has been digitized from cover to cover, providing searchable access to articles as well as birth and death announcements, advertisements, editorials, cartoons, reviews, and more. Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Jack London contributed to the early Chronicle’s pages—some without benefit of a byline. It’s a window through which to view and study westward expansion, Chinese immigration, machine politics, 1906 earthquake, urban planning, war, public policy, and more.
Dance in Video is a cool new database that will contain 250 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. Watch specific dance performances, or an interview with Judith Jameson, an instructional video by Merce Cunningham, even an incredible jump rope routine!
Up-To-Date is a online information source dedicated to synthesizing medical knowledge for clinicians and patients. It covers more than 7300 topics in 13 medical specialties and includes more than 75,000 pages of text, graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 250,000 references, and a drug database. Great for nurses, nursing students, patients, and the hypochondriac in us all!
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Reserves & more at the Circulation Desk.
From our Special Collections
Escape to adventure with movies from the Library!
Writing the Great American Screenplay over the summer?
Pick up some tips from the pros by watching DVDs from the series Interview with screenwriter... . From silly to serious, from the likes of the Farrelly brothers, Susannah Grant, Paul Haggis, and more. Check them out at the multimedia desk!
It's Summer!
We're still here, but we're on summer hours
from Sunday, May 25th through Monday, August 25th. See the Hours page for more details.
Ever wish you could play along with the greats?
Now you can practice your jazz improvisation with our collection of Jamey Aebersold's playalong CDs. Check them out at the Multimedia Desk.
Art Index Retro, 1929-1984, provides online access to replace the print volumes of this index to art periodicals; Art Index (to which we already subscribe) picks up 1984-present.
Gale Virtual Reference is a resource to which we’ve added 33 more online encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference materials such as Business Plans, Encyclopedia of Religion, Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology, Social Trends and Indicators, etc.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 consists of more than 37,000 full-text books, pamphlets and broadsides documenting early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. The Evans Collection is the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1962 and 2008, in 118 languages.
All Shakespeare, all the time.
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's annual compilation of data about development, including data organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.
If you need stats on development, this is your database!
Dissertations & Theses: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection
These digital dissertations form a comprehensive collection of scholarly research in the humanities, social sciences, and education, with more than 1 million dissertations and theses, available full-text online.
RGE Monitor provides analysis and "ahead-of-the-curve" global economic insights, with distillation of the best thinking on all sides of geo-political issues on topics of Global Macroeconomics, Emerging Markets, World Markets, Geostrategic and Long Term Issues, Finance and Banking.
Includes publications such as Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor, NBER and CEPR publications, a Political Blog Aggregator, and RGE Webcasts & Conference Calls. SSU Library subscribes, but the site also requires individual login.
African American National Biography, a new 8 volume set, presents history through a mosaic of the lives of 4,100 individuals, some known throughout the world and others all but forgotten, illuminating the abiding influence of African Americans on the life of this nation through the immediacy of personal experience.
Includes not only great and famous African Americans, but a selection that will be representative of the scope of African American experience.
Benezit dictionary of artists is the premier reference work for the art world. It is the standard biographical listing of artists, outdoing similar resources in both size and scope. First published in 1911, this massive print reference work has grown to a 14-volume set published in 2006 in English for the very first time.
Nature Online Nature is a weekly international journal featuring peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its "originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions." Access to the online version also includes podcasts, video content, advance publications and more....
The University Library and the Department of Political Science held a Post Primary Forum for the kick off of the 2008 It Matters! series.
Moderated by Catherine Nelson, Professor Political Science and Andy Merrifield, Professor Political Science and Pete Golis, Press Democrat. The forum was held on Wednesday February 6, 2008 at 2:00pm in Schulz 3001.
Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life. The new Scholar’s Edition includes 75,000 additional pages of previously inaccessible data and statistics from the publications of local and state commissions on women since 1963.
Sage eReference includes 46 online multi-volume reference works such as American Masculinities, Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Encyclopedia of Social Theory.
Digital Sanborn Maps is a unique online collection of the fire insurance maps produced by the Sanborn Map Company for California cities for over 100 years, which repeatedly mapped towns and cities as they changed. The maps chronicle important changes in California cities in great detail and provide a fascinating account of urban life from 1867 through 1930s
Sport Discus FT is a comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for 415 journals, most with no embargo.
The Criterion Collection gathers the greatest classic and contemporary films from around the world and publishes them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. The over 360 titles are excellent for film studies, modern language studies, history, socio-political studies, or just a good evening of entertainment
Access Science Online is the electronic version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, with research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, animations images and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more
The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 is an incomparably rich, yet largely untapped collection of online primary source materials detailing all aspects of American history.
BioOne includes over 80 full-text peer-reviewed bioscience journals, primarily in the areas of ecology, botany and zoology.
Cell phones--love 'em or hate 'em. If you're the one talking they're great! But if you have to listen to the intimate details of other folks conversations when you're trying to study, they can be a real drag. In response to lots of complaints about cell phone usage, we need to ask for your assistance.
No cell phone conversations on the third floor of the library or in Reference or Multimedia. If you need to take or make a call, please move to the lobby area on the 2d floor, to the 1st floor, or outside.
Thanks for helping us respond to the outcry!
America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts will have the familiar Ebsco interface as of Monday, October 8. Same content, easier searching. Cool features include being able to search easily by historical period (which is also displayed in the results) as well as being able to search both databases at once (AHL for the US and Canada, HA for the rest of the world). Links to full-text articles and easy save/email/print features are also included.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains facsimiles of 80% of all items produced by a printing press (such as books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ballads) in England or the English colonies or printed in English anywhere else in the world before 1700; Spanning the years of the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration, EEBO provides a first-hand historical look at an era defined by notable changes, including the rise of the mercantile class and the first English settlements in North America.
The African Writers Series is an electronic edition of the highly acclaimed Heinemann print series, which began publication in 1962. Included are the full-text of 359 titles key texts of modern African writing, from Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Dambudzo Marechera, Nadine Gordimer and Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
We now have Science online! In order to access one of the world’s leading journals publishing original scientific research, make sure to log-in via the library’s catalog.
We're updating our site to allow us more room to play with new approaches and tools. It's a work in progress, so thanks for your patience as we figure out the details.
