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Databases
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.
American
Council of Learned Societies History E-Book Project
(full-text) Allows you to search the full-text of academic books
for specific terms. Then you may read or print the pages of the
book where your search terms appear. The Simple Search cannot do
a Boolean search. You will have to click on Boolean Search or Proximity
Search to do complex searches. Eight learned societies and ten university
presses are participating in this project.
American
History in Video - (full-text) The Advanced Search field
allows searches by subject, person discussed, historical event, historical era and several more. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the menu bar.
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.
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.
British
and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (ASP) (full-text) Use
the searches under the heading Search Texts. These
will allow you to search letters, or diaries only and it will allow
you to limit you searches to material written by women according
to age and maternal status. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
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.
CIAO:
Columbia International Affairs Online - The major drawback
about this database is that you cannot do phrase searches.
All searches are Boolean AND searchs. The search box is not easy
to see either. It is located in the far right column, below the
inscrutable graphic.
Civil War Letters and Diaries (ASP) (full-text) Use
the searches under the heading Search Texts. These
will allow you to search letters, or diaries only and it will allow
you to limit you searches to material written by women according
to age and maternal status. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
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.
CQ
Historical Documents Series Online (full-text) Thirty-two
volumes of primary sources and growing. Each volume includes approximately
one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the
year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international
agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports,
scientific findings, and cultural discussions. 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.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation (ASP) (full-text) Use
the searches under the heading Search Texts. These
will allow you to search letters, or diaries only and it will allow
you to limit you searches to material written by women according
to age and maternal status. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Dolley
Madison Digital Edition Letters 1788 - 1836 (full-text)
Searchable archive of letters to and from Dolley Madison, the fourth
First Lady of the United States.
Early Encounters in North America (ASP) (full-text) Use
the searches under the heading Search Texts. These
will allow you to search letters, or diaries only and it will allow
you to limit you searches to material written by women according
to age and maternal status. The search options are unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Early English Books Online - (full-text) The basic search allows you to search only the texts with images, if you like. Advanced search lets you search by languages and type of images, such as map, chart, plan or table, to name a few.
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.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library (full-text) Electronic version
of American Inaugurals: The Speeches, The Presidents, and Their
Times and New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. By
using the Advanced Search feature you can perform Boolean searches.
If you do not
know how to do a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques.
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.
In the First Person (ASP) - (full-text)
English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Permits a wide variety of search options. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
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 (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.
London Times
Digital Archive 1785 - 1985 (Gale) (full-text) Searches will
allow you to limit by section. Sections include Advertising, Business,
Editorial or Commentary, Features, News, People or Picture Gallery.
You may also limit to articles with illustrations only. All text
is in PDF format.
Making of America (full-text) - A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Shows PDF images of the full-text book pages. Each image has a "Print" Button on the upper left side of the screen. In order to download images to a jumpdrive, right click (PC) and select "View Image." Right click again and "Save Image As." Remember to name the images in a way that will tell you which ones go together and in what order.
Military and Government Collection (EBSCO) (some 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.
New York Times Historical Newspapers 1851-2002 (ProQuest) - (full-text) PDFs of actual newspaper pages are fully searchable. Allows you to limit searches to specific time periods.
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 Immigrant Letters Diaries and Oral Histories (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.
North American Indian
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.
North
American Women's Letters and Diaries (full-text) Use
the searches under the heading Search Texts. These
will allow you to limit you searches to material written by women
according to marital and maternal status. The search options are
unusually varied. HELP
is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
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.
Oral History Online (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
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.
Papers of George Washington (full-text) To search find the small word "SEARCH," in red, located under the very large title of the site, right below the last name of the Editor-in-cheif, Theodore J. Crackel.
Primary Sources of the Women's Movement 1960 - present (full-text) Use
the searches under the heading Search Texts. These
will allow you to limit you searches to material written by women
according to marital and maternal status. The search options are
unusually varied. HELP is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
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.
Southern Life (Gale) (some full-text) - Database goes back to the early 1980's covering popular and peer-reviewed journals, many of which are published in the South.
Tanner Ritchie Series: Sources for Medieval and Early Modern History (full-text) Download the PDF then search the PDF.
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.
Washington Post Historical Newspapers (1877 - 1989) - (fulltext) Search allows you to limit to specific years.
Women and Social Movements (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.
Women Working 1800-1930 (full-text) Click "search the collection" on the left menu bar for an advanced search.
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.
New
York Times Index 1851 - 1995 (citation only) SBC Library
has the NY Times in full-text from many sources. You can check Journal
Finder to locate the databases. This NY Times Index is a
free resource to allow quick access to specific citations.
PAIS Archive 1915-1976 (CSA) (citation only) - Use Boolean operators to compose your search. If you do not know how to
do a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques. When your search results are displayed, click on the title of the article to see the abstract. Remember to return to your results by clicking the link in the top center of the page that says "Return to Results," instead of using the back button. Click the words "Check Your Library," located beneath each item on your search results list, to see if that article is available on campus or electronically. "Send Request to Illiad" will link you to your Illiad Interlibrary Loan account.
PAIS International 1972-Current (CSA) (citation only) - Use Boolean operators to compose your search. If you do not know how to
do a Boolean search, see Search
Techniques. When your search results are displayed, click on the title of the article to see the abstract. Remember to return to your results by clicking the link in the top center of the page that says "Return to Results," instead of using the back button. Click the words "Check Your Library," located beneath each item on your search results list, to see if that article is available on campus or electronically. "Send Request to Illiad" will link you to your Illiad Interlibrary Loan account.
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).
Wiley InterScience - Even though every single item returned by your search contains a link for a PDF, there ARE NO full-text documents in this database. To find a full-text version of the articles you discover in this database, check Journal Finder.
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.
History 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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