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Databases
ABI
Inform (some full-text in Business topics) - Go to the tab
marked Advanced Search and click there to begin. Notice that in
the Recent Search link (located to the upper right of the Advanced
Search form after you have done at least two searches) you can combine
searches you've already completed earlier in the same session. Notice
also that your search results are divided by tabs into articles
from Scholarly Journals, Magazines, Trade Publications, and Newspapers.
Items you place in your Marked List can be printed, emailed or exported
to citation management software. You may also format Marked List
items, selecting from MLA, APA, Turabian or AMA.
African-American
Poetry 1760-1900 - (full-text) You can Browse the collection
or Search by subject, keyword, first line, gender of the author,
city of publication and many more. Do not use quotation marks around
phrase searches. The database will find your exact phrase without
quotes.
African American Song (ASP) (full-text) The Advanced Search field
allows searches by keyword, track, genre, instrument, period, artist and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Aluka (full-text) - Use the simple search box or the topics linked below it. The advanced search accepts Boolean operators. If you do not know how to
do a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques.
African American Song (ASP) (full-text) The Advanced Search field
allows searches by keyword, track, genre, instrument, period, artist and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
American Civil War Letters and Diaries (ASP) (full-text) The Advanced
Search allows searching by race, military rank, battle name, religion,
occupation and many other options. HELP is available
at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
American
Slavery -
(full-text) Oral histories of former slaves. Browse this collection
by Narrator, Subject Matter, Master, Interviewer and County where
the former slave was held captive.
Black
Drama (ASP) (full-text) The multi-search field allows searches
by gender, age when writing, nationality, race, genre, settings,
performers, composers and several more.
The search options are unusually varied. HELP
is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Black
Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora (ASP) (full-text) The multi-search field allows searches
by gender, age when writing, nationality, race, genre, settings,
performers, composers and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Black
Thought and Culture (ASP) (full-text) The Advanced Search field
allows searches by gender, age when writing, nationality, race,
religion, historical events and several more.
The search options are unusually varied. HELP
is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Black
Women Writers (ASP) (full-text) The Advanced Search field
allows searches by gender, age when writing, nationality, race,
religion, historical events and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Cambridge Companions (full-text) Includes The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel in addition to other Companions relevant to Black history. The advanced search allows Boolean searches in the "Full text" field. If you do not know how to
do a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques. Be careful - the "Start Advanced Search" button is below the fold. You will have to scroll down to see it!
Credo Reference - (full-text) Tremendous number of full-text reference volumes with many unique search options. Browse by topic, use a concept map, or an advanced search. You can also rank search results by relevancy, by results with still and moving images, and by those with sound files.
EBSCOhost Databases - (mostly full-text) On the follwing screen place check marks beside all the databases you wish to search. Click "Continue" at the bottom of the screen. On the left menu bar next to your search results you will see many options for narrowing your search.
Factiva
- (full-text) First, you have to remember to use Internet Explorer
(not Netscape) to get into Factiva. Netscape will not work. On the
first screen of Factiva, ignore everything before the words Free
Text, which will be on the blue/grey bar. Type your search terms
in the text box by the words Free Text.
Important:
The default search on Factiva is a phrase search. If you want
to do a Boolean AND search, you must type the word "and."
Click
on Run Search. Select an item from your list of
search results. To return to your list of search results DO NOT
CLICK THE BACK BUTTON. Instead, look on the upper right side
of the screen. Just above the top, right corner of your article
you will see the words Return to Headlines in blue. Click
there to return to your list of search results. (On an Apple computer,
Return to Headlines may be located on the upper
left.) If
you find an article that is perfect for your research, scroll to
the bottom of that article and click "More Like This," which you will
see in grey letters on the lower left. This will bring a new search
results list of articles similar to the one that was perfect for
your topic. Factiva offers online tutorials that will help you use their powerful, but complicated, search interface here.
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online 1543 - 1945
- (full-text) Use the Quick Search instead of the Advanced Search, because the Advanced Search creates errors. In Quick Search you will have to use Boolean operators by typing them into the search box. For example: women and trance and religion. After you retrieve your document, you can increase the type size on the screen up to 400%. If you have a pop-up blocker, you will have to add "gerritsen.chadwyck.com" to your allowed sites before you can print or download citations to RefWorks. To print, click on View as PDF, and then on the next screen click the button marked "View as PDF." The PDF will load to a new window. From there, just click the Print button that is physically closest to the document you want to print. It will usually be located on the left, just above your document, next to an icon of a floppy disc.
HarpWeek
1857-1912 - (full-text) Harper's Weekly newspaper articles
from the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. You can search advertisements,
articles, cartoons, editorials, travel narratives and many more.
You can also Browse through individual newspapers. Each page was
scanned from the original.
JSTOR
(full-text) - The Advanced Search page is the default. If you do
not want to search all of the collections at JSTOR, scroll down
and list one or more titles to search or check mark specific resources.
Place as many checks as you like in the section marked These
Discipline(s) and/or Journal(s):. If you leave them all
unmarked the system will search all of them.
On the search results screen, there is no longer any way to move batches of citations to RefWorks unless you Register for MyJSTOR and log in to that service. You can move citation one at a time into RefWorks, however.
Click on the title of the article to view the first page. To Print, click on the PDF button. It will be the bottom button under three others labeled "Save citation," "Export this citation," and "Article Information." All four are located below the grey bar grey, on the center right of the screen. A pop-up window will load your PDF. Click the printer icon closest to the document - located to the right of the floppy disc icon.
Lexis-Nexis People (full-text) - Remember
that Lexis-Nexis sources are mainly newspapers, so only fairly famous
people will be found in this database. Be sure to Select Source in the pull down menu - there are MANY sources of biographical material in this database and you may need to tailor your search to a source that matchs your person's job or nationality.
LRC:
Literature Resource Center (full-text) After you click
on the link at left, you will go to a list of databases at Gale.
Scroll down and click on Literature Resource Center. Enter an author's
name in the search box and click, Search. Writers who have been
published for
the first time in the past three years may not be in this database.
Authors By Type allows you to select an author according
to Ethnicity, Genre, Literary Movement, Nationality or Theme.
NetLibrary (full-text) - is a collection of over 43,000 online books in all subjects. Search by author, title, or keyword. You may also search the full-text for specific words or phrases. The most important thing to remember about NetLibrary is that if you click on "View this eBook" that title will be locked up for 15 minutes UNLESS you "close" the eBook. Directly below the NetLibrary logo in the upper left of the browser screen you will see the words Open Items. Beneath Open Items you will see the word Current followed by the title you are viewing. To the right of the title, you will see the words, Close Item. You should always close the item when you are finished viewing it! Sweet Briar College Library shares all of our NetLibrary e-books with all of the colleges in the state. If NetLibrary tells you that an e-book is already in use, it is probably being used at another Virginia school. Wait and try that book again later.
In
order to prevent problems in getting back into an eBook you are
using, you should also always leave your eBook open in a separate
browser window. If you need to go to other web pages while you are
using an eBook, open a new browser window and do your web browsing
there. Leave your eBook open in it's original window! If
you need to leave the computer you are working on, it would be best
for you to either "close" the eBook (if it is not checked
out) OR (if the item is checked out) check the item back in before
you close the browser window.
To move through sections of books in NetLibrary, click the words "Next" or "Previous" in the top right of the page. DO NOT use the greyed out arrows on the bottom of the screen. They don't work. No, we don't know why they are there. Please
note that NetLibrary books cannot be downloaded due to copyright
law, but individual pages can be printed. The advanced search on
Net Library accepts Boolean operators. If you do not know how to
do a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques.
Newsbank
(full-text) offers newspapers from Virginia, major U.S. papers,
and newspapers from the United Kingdom and Asia. It doesn't matter
which link you choose on the first page - you will have to custom
select the newspapers that interest you on the second screen. The
coverage dates for each newspaper are shown to the right of the
titles. If you do not wish to search papers from Virginia, or USA
Today, you will have to de-select these titles. Click on "More
Options," to the right of the Search button for an Advanced
Search. Newsbank accepts Boolean operators. If you do no know how
to do a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques.
Opposing Viewpoints (GaleNet) (full-text) Use the basic search or choose from a list of popular topics. Advanced search is available on the top menu bar. Articles can be translated into other languages and citations will export to RefWorks.
Oxford
Digital Reference Shelf - This link takes you to a title list.
Oxford Reference Online Premium (full-text) Great quick reference
for defining concepts, word translations, country flags and timelines
in a wide variety of studies. Just plug your search term into the
Quick Search. An Advanced Search is also available.
Reader's
Guide Full-Text (WilsonWeb) (full-text) On your list of search results, the Wilson Link button allows you to export citation to RefWorks.
Wilson
Web (some full-text) - The Advanced Search screen automatically
loads. If you do no know how to do a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques. The blue Start button is on the
right. Below the Start button, notice the option to Limit
to Full Text. You may also use Subject Area,
to limit your search to a particular area if you get too many results
by searching ALL.
Women and Social Movements (ASP) (full-text) The Advanced Search field
allows searches by gender, age when writing, nationality, race,
religion, historical events and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Indexes:
America:
History and Life (citation only) The Advanced Search screen automatically loads.If you do no know how to do a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques. You can refine your search and get fewer results by using the tools in the left and right menu bars.
FirstSearch
(citation only) - Enter your search terms in the "Search For"
field. Then select a database to search. You can only search one
database at a time. For that reason, it is better to use the scroll
box to select a Database rather than a Topic. Use
Jump to Advanced Search if you need to search on more than
one keyword at once. To order an Interlibrary Loan from any of the FirstSearch databases, scroll down to the middle of the record for the item you wish to order and click the link next to this image:  .
Historical
Abstracts (citation only) The Advanced Search screen automatically loads.If you do no know how to do a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques. You can refine your search and get fewer results by using the tools in the left and right menu bars.
Reader's
Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 (WilsonWeb) - (citation only) On your list of search results, the Wilson Link button allows you to export citation to RefWorks. After you collect your citations from Reader's Guide Retrospective, you will have to go to Journal Finder to locate the articles either online or in Sweet Briar College Libary's Wick Storage facility. If you do not know how to do this, please contact Liz Kent (x6315), Joe Malloy (x6307) or Lisa Johnston (x6306).
WorldCat (OCLC) (citation only) - If you opt to use the Advanced search screen you can limit your search by format (i.e. book, map, sound recording, etc.). You can also limit your search to the Sweet Briar College collection by placing a check mark next to "Limit Availability to:" and then typing the letters VSB in the Library Code box.
WorldCat is very easy to use with the Illiad Interlibrary Loan system. Simply log into Illiad in a separate tab. In a WorldCat record click on the words "Send Request to Iliad" which you will find next to the pink "ILL" graphic. This will send your request directly and automatically to Illiad.
Online
Journals
Journal
Finder is a list of all of the journals SBC has in full
text through database subscriptions. Type in your journal title
and the finder will locate the journal you need. For more journal
subscriptions that are in print or on microform, connect to LION
to check the SBC Library catalog for holdings information on the
journals you need. If the journal is NOT held by
the SBC Library, request the articles you need on Interlibrary Loan.
The form is here.
Books
in the Sweet Briar College Library
To find books on your topic, connect to LION
and use the Subject Keyword search field. We can order books on
Interlibrary
Loan (ILL) from all area libraries. Please check LION
before requesting an ILL book. If we have the book on campus your
ILL request will not be filled. Check both LION
and Journal Finder
before requesting an ILL journal article. If the article is on campus
or is available to you electronically through Journal
Finder your ILL request will not be filled.
RefWorks
RefWorks
is a database that organizes your "works cited" to create
quick bibliographies for your papers. It allows you to change your
entire bibliography from APA to MLA style (or many other styles)
in a snap, without fussing with formats or punctuation.
Just
go to RefWorks.
The first time you go there you will have to "Sign up for an
individual account." Once you sign up and login, click on the
References tab in the upper left corner of the screen.
On
the drop-down menu tool bar choose "Add New Reference."
On the following screen, start by selecting your prefered bibliographic
style (e.g. APA, Chicago, MLA, etc.) Then designate the type of
reference you are entering (e.g. journal, book or dissertation,
etc.) under Ref Type. Field names marked with a red asterisk indicate
required information needed to produce an accurate bibliography
for the selected output style and reference type. Click "Save"
when finished.
You
can Import references from selected databases. Importing allows
you to bring in multiple references at one time. Check the RefWorks
list of Supported Databases to see which products
will allow you to export multiple references to RefWorks.
If
you have any problems using RefWorks you can
check out their helpful online tutorials
or download the SBC Library RefWorks Handout. Please call a librarian
at x6307, x6306 or x6315 for a one-on-one training session.
Black
History
on the Web
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If you have
comments, questions, or would like to add a site, write to me.
Lisa N. Johnston (email: lnjohnston at sbc dot edu), Associate Director/ Head of Public Services, Sweet
Briar College Library
Revised 8/09
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