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Spend an afternoon with the Dashwood sisters of Sense and Sensibility, catching up on local gossip, potential crushes and past illicit love affairs. 2011 marked the bicenntenial of Jane Austen's first published work. Or, enjoy the popular 1851 novel, Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell which chronicles the lives of two sisters rivaling reality TV of today and is the basis for the 2007 BBC miniseries of the same name starring Dame Judi Dench. FREE DOWNLOAD.
The Library Café is temporarily closed until June 6th. If you need a quick java fix, please visit the cappuccino and other vending machines on the first floor of the library.
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Top Databases for “Find Articles”
List of the library’s most popular and widely-used databases.
- Web of Knowledge/Web of Science premier research platform for information in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
- Academic Search Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
- LexisNexis Academic provides access to over 6,000 full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options. Use this database for full-text of the New York Times and other major U.S. newspapers.
- JSTOR provides access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in a variety of academic disciplines including the arts, business, demographic studies, humanities, social sciences, and science from the first issue to 3 years of current publication. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added on an ongoing basis.
- CQ Researcher is your complete source for in-depth, analytical reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day.
- Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965, for more than 2,300 journals and searchable cited references back as far as 1998 in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
- WorldCat via FirstSearch The Library subscription version that has advanced search features for conducting focused searches. Can request items using Criss Library's Interlibrary Loan service directly from the database. Search for materials in over 470 languages.
- ERIC (CSA Version) The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) extends ready access to over 1,262,042 records spanning from 1966 to present with coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
- MLA International Bibliography This database from the Modern Language Association offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
- PsycINFO psychology database contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages.
- Wilson Omni Full-Text Select presents electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals on virtually any subject. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.
Systematic downloading of large amounts of material in a short period of time (such as all abstracts and/or full text articles from entire journal issues) is strictly prohibited by publishers. Failure by patrons to comply with this restriction may result in the loss of access by all users to a particular resource.
