Subscription
Databases
Full-text Databases:
ARTstor (image database) - The first thing you need to know about ARTstor is that you must configure your browser so that it allows pop-up
windows for the ARTstor site. To learn how to disable
the pop-up blocker for the computer you plan to use when on ARTstor go to:
http://www.artstor.org/webhelp/Disable_Pop-up_Blocking_Software.htm
If you are using Explorer,
your version should be 6.0.29 or later for best results.
Note that whenever
you enter a search in ARTstor, you will have to
click the Search button to enter the search. Just hitting Return
will not begin your search!
To create Image
Groups, register for an account. Then Login and click on My Image
Groups on the Menu Bar at the very top of the screen. A pop-up box
will load with two pull-down menus on it. Let the top pull-down
menu say, "My Work Folder." Then click inside the lower
box and it will allow you to type in a name of your choice. You
can store as many images as you like here. After registration you
can also add comments to the images in ARTstor for your own personal use. Use Boolean searching in Advanced Search.
Double click on the image you wish to download. At the bottom right
of the image you will see a floppy disc icon. Click there to save
the image to your hard drive, then paste it into a PowerPoint presentation
later. Images must not be used on websites or for any but educational
purposes.
If your professor
has saved images for you to use, they will be located under View
Image Groups which is the middle choice of three on the ARTstor
Image Search page. Just select a Course Folder and then
Select an Image Group from the Course Folder. If you need to export citations from ARTstor to RefWorks, please click to the ARTstor to RefWorks tutorial.
Cambridge Companions (full-text) 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!
Cambridge
University Press Journals (mostly full-text) - The link
at left will take you to the "Advanced Search" screen. If
you do not want to do an Advanced Search you can use the simple
search box in the upper right corner of the screen. If you want
to use the Advanced Search, you probably want to set Journals to
"All Journals" and Subjects to "All Catagories." Restrict
search to specific article type is probably the best part
of the Advanced Search. If you do not want book reviews, you can
limit your search to articles only by holding down the control key
and clicking to highlight only the article types you want.
Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) (full-text) -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.
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.
ebrary - (full-text) A large colleciton of full-text books.
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.
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
(full-text) - Search returns full-text information on dances and choreographers.
Lexis-Nexis (full-text) - Allows you to search using natural language or Boolean techniques, which they call "Terms and Connectors." Notice that you can Select Source on the pull down menu below the search box. There you can search transcripts, law reviews and medical journals, to name but a few catagories of publications.
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.
North
American Indian Drama (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches
under the heading Search Texts. These will allow
you to limit you searches to material written by age when writing, tribe, gender, genre, settings and more. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The
search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
North
American Theatre Online (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches
under the heading Search Texts. These will allow
you to limit you searches to material written by age when writing, tribe, gender, genre, settings and more. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The
search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
North
American Women's Drama (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches
under the heading Search Texts. These will allow
you to limit you searches to material written by straight or lesbian
women. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The
search options are unusually varied. HELP
is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Oxford
Art Online (full-text) - Most searches will start at either Advanced Search or Image Links.
Under Advanced Search Full-Text you will have three
options indicated by radio buttons, located under the search box. Concept or Boolean will probably
be the most frequently used options. If you do no know how to do
a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques.
If
you need to find an image, use Search External Image Links.
This option will take you away from the Grove site to sites that
are maintained by art museums around the world. For this reason,
the image links from Grove may not always take you directly to the
image you want. Often, Image Links will take you
to the home page of the museum that owns the painting and you will
have to search that museum's site for the image you want.
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.
Oxford
University Press (full-text from 1996) - OUP Makes you
work before you can search! On the first screen of OUP, scroll to
the bottom and see where it says Sort By on the
lower right side. Set the radio button to Newest First.
Notice also that you can limit your search to just one journal or
to one subject area in the middle of the search screen. After you
do a search, and select an article from your search results screen,
in most cases a PDF will open in a window on the left side of the
screen. You can return to your search results by clicking the back
button or by clicking the blue button labeled Search Result
on the right side of the frame.
Project
Muse (full-text) Click on Search.
Use the Advanced
Search to limit to specific journals and to use Boolean
Operators. When your search results screen appears, you click on
the title of the article to see it in HTML. If you prefer a PDF
version, click on the small words, "View in PDF" which
appear to the right of the title of the article.
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.
Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online (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.
Theatre In Video (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches
under the heading Search Texts. These will allow
you to limit you searches to material written by straight or lesbian
women. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The
search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Times Digital Archives 1785-1985 (full-text) - Allows
you to limit your search by advertising, business, editorial, commentary,
featuers, news, people, picture gallery and articles with illustration.
Displays PDF images with a scroll box at the top that allows you
to make the image larger or smaller. Search terms are highlighted
in the text of the article.
Twentieth Century North American Drama (ASP) (full-text) Use the searches
under the heading Search Texts. These will allow
you to limit you searches to material written by straight or lesbian
women. It also allows searches based on race and nationality. The
search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
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. This is a good place to find book reviews.
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.
Dance
Resources On the Web
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
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