Subscription
Databases
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.
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.
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Historical Documents Series Online (full-text) Thirty-two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.
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.
Encyclopedia
Britannica (full-text) is very simple to use. Please
note that your search results will be sorted into columns. The information
in the far left cloumn will be from Britannica. The next column,
to the right, will be from Britannica's student encyclopedia
which is geared to the use of high school students. Other columns
will include The Web's Best Sites (these links will open a second
window to Britannica-approved sites on the free web) and Additional
Content wich may include links to video, or other media.
Expanded
Academic Index (some 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 Expanded Academic for a second time. If
you want to search for full-text articles only, be sure to look
below the yellow box and find the words Limit the current search
(optional). Here you will find a small square next to the words,
"to articles with text." Place a check in that square and
the system will find only full-text articles for you.
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.
Printing
from JSTOR is not easy. You might want to download the PDF to your
computer and print it later. This is the fastest option.
If
you need to print, DO NOT click on the print icon at the top
of your browser window. DO NOT press control/P.
Before
you print, look at the red bar at top and find the words Set
Preferences and click. On the next screen select Printing.
On the following screen look for the words Set Printing
Preference. Below that, find Dialup Connection.
Below those word you will see an option to "Choose PDF: Economy
(requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)." This option will allow you
to print a good copy quickly. Place your radio button selection
on PDF Economy and then click the button marked
Set Printing Preference. The next screen will offer
the option to Return to your JSTOR session. You
should choose that one.
Now
look for the word Print, in grey, on the left side of the
screen top, just below the red bar at the top. It will be beneath
the word Search. A pop-up box may appear that asks you to confirm
your printing preferences. Click "ok" and a new window will load
to your screen. Your PDF file will appear in this window. To print
your PDF, click on the Adobe print icon. This is the one closest
to your article. It will be above the article on the left, to the
right of an image of a floppy disc.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Indexes:
America:
History and Life (citation only) On the next screen
you will see, "Click here to access your subscription."
After you click, you can select from between two databases. One
is America: History and Life. The other is Historical Abstracts.
Historical Abstracts is an index to international history. An Advanced
Search is available. All entries are citation only.
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) On the next screen you will
see, "Click here to access your subscription." After you
click, you can select from between two databases. One is America:
History and Life. The other is Historical Abstracts. Historical
Abstracts is an index to international history. An Advanced Search
is available. All entries are citation only and some are in languages
other than English.
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.
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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