Electronic Resources
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Subscription DatabasesFull text resources: General & Humanities EBSCO, Academic Search Elite is a general resource; Communications and Mass Media Complete is specifically for communications & media. ProQuest, the FC subscription includes Research Library for general topics. Project MUSE, a full-text humanities source from Johns Hopkins. JSTOR, important archive of scholarly journals and other materials. *NEW* ARTstor, an art image database. *NEW* Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, newspaper articles and broadcast transcripts Granger's World of Poetry, poetry both in citation and in full text Columbia International Affairs Online, full-text articles, working papers and other publications in the field of Int'l Relations/Int'l Affairs, from Columbia University in NYC. Full text resources: Business/Economics/Finance EBSCO. Business Source Elite is a full-text resource; EconLit is a citation resource. MarketLine, a DowJones company information resource ProQuest. The FC subscription includes ABI/INFORM Global for business topics. National Bureau for Economic Research [NBER]: a full-text collection of published and working papers in the wide field of economics Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, newspaper articles and broadcast transcripts Full-text sources: other Earthscape, a science/ecology database of full-text articles, maps and other useful information, from Columbia University in NYC Opera del Vocabolario Italiana, a full-text source of Italian-language literature in Italian. The works are all out of copyright. (Ask the librarian for login information.) OCLC FirstSearch; shows books in libraries all over the world, and bibliographies. Reference sources Choice Academic Book Reviews Chronicle of Higher Education; for education statistics and information. (Ask the librarian for login information) Teacher Reference Center, a free citation database by and for educators and interested persons Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA), a free citation database by and for librarians and interested persons College Catalogs Online (USA) The Stanley Foundation for Peace Featured free databases Federation of American Scientists/Congressional Research Reports; the page title says "Military Analysis Network," but the info goes far beyond this. related: Congressional Research Services Other Internet ResourcesOn Line Reference Tools: Statistics Country Studies from the CIA CIA World Factbook, American taxes at work Congressional Quarterly Press in context, from CQPress in Washington DC Data Conversion Tool, free! converts UNIX to DOS, ASCII to Palm Pilot PDB, .xls to CSV, etc. Dismal Scientist: Economic Analysis and Data for The World, a collection of links--FC does not subscribe! EconData.net, socioeconomic data from a variety of reliable sources European Union/EC press release search engine International Monetary Fund homepage Meridian Securities Market, includes data from global stock markets OECD Online homepage World Trade Organization [WTO] homepage FedStats.gov, a portal to all types of US Federal government statistics Congressional Budget Office, US taxes at work. This is the Subject page National Statistics Office, from the UK National Statistics offices worldwide, a list of links O and A Currency Converter, includes historical conversions 2001-05 Statistical Abstract of the U.S., in .pdf format On Line Reference Tools: Writing & Academic Research INFOMINE, a U of Calif portal to "invisible web" resources, mostly from U of Calif sources. Writer's Resources; collection of links, including links to online style guides Style Guides and Resources, site edited by writers & librarians OAIster, an Open Archives Initiative search engine from the University of Michigan Internet Detective, info on how to evaluate websites Harvard University's Open Collections Program about Working Women, 1870-1930 Today in Literature, with many literary biographies and links The Infography Professors, librarians, and other scholars recommend the best sources of information about their subjects of expertise. http://www.infography.com/ PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's search service Federation of American Scientists/Congressional Research Reports; the page title says "Military Analysis Network," but the info goes far beyond this Congressional Research Services History of Science, Technology, & Medicine from George Mason Univ. National Academy of Sciences online books, many of them free Getty List of Geographic Names, includes latitude & longitude for specific places Geographic and Environmental Resources from the Joint Information Systems Committee in the UK Harvard Business School / Baker Library, some resources freely available METAGRID, links to hundreds of fulltext newspapers & magazines Swiss Newspapers Online College Catalogs Association of American University Presses (AAUP catalogs) Braintrack - University Index SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid U.S Government Information for College Students Links to other Franklin departmental pagesEconomics and Finance International Relations
E-book Websites Professor Patrick Butler's Book - Cavorting With Strangers. (Great Ideas and Their Champions: Paris) Alex Catalogue - Collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. Now includes photos also! Directory of Open Access Journals; includes business, economic, and social sciences subject matter Google free books to download HighWire.org - Full text articles, many of a scientific nature Internet Public Library, a collection of links to online books, texts and ephemera. Updated monthly. Online Books - from the University of Pennsylvania Project Gutenberg - an ambitious program to get all the important world literature online, more than 4,000 texts are included netLibrary; Ask librarian for the log-in information University of California Press. This is the portal to search through a number of UC Press publications, both e-books and e-journals. The results are citations only; full text of articles can be purchased individually. Search Tools: Engines (run on robots--results based on algorithms) Google, the most popular search engine Google Scholar, retrieves articles from scholarly magazines, but not of the quality of ProQuest or EBSCO or CIAO (which your tuition is paying for) See also Google US Government, another way of finding government documents and reports--and notices of internships! AltaVista, includes a versatile translation tool, Babelfish Askjeeves, uses natural language for searching BigHub Deep Index, "European search engine offering interfaces in English, French, and German" Dogpile, a multi-search engine Excite HotBot Mamma.com, "the mother of all search engines" Teoma, uses a different algorithm from Google Vivisimo, uses a different algorithm from Google Yahoo! Search Tools: Directories (run by people--results based on a person's inspection of the site) About.com, a collection of answers, written by real people Invisible-web.net, an organized collection of websites you can't get to from Google, by a librarian in DC Librarians' Index to the Internet, websites which have been examined & indexed by information specialists Look Smart, "hand-picked web sites organized into categories" Open Directory Project, "the largest human-edited directory on the web"
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