Subscription
Databases
Full-text Databases:
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.
American
Civil War Letters and Diaries (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
Poetry (Electronic Text Center) (full-text) Allows
searching within works according to the style of writing and the
gender of the poet.
Asian
American Drama (full-text) Allows searches limited
by Age When Writing, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Production Company,
Theater Name and many others. The search options are unusually varied.
HELP
is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
Black
Drama (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.
British
and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (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 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.
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.
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.
English
Poetry (Electronic Text Center) (full-text) includes the
works of 1,257 named poets and many items by different anonymous
hands. Overall the database contains over 165,000 poems which have
been drawn from about 4,500 separate printed sources.
English
Verse Drama contains more than 2,200 works by around 500
named and over 300 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments
of the late thirteenth century through the unparalleled output of
the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the nineteenth
century.
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. None of
their Book Reviews are in full-text!
Granger's
World of Poetry (full-text) locates poems by author, title,
subject and keyword in anthologies.
Johns
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
(full-text) On
the next screen, click on the blue Johns Hopkins logo. A list of
contents will appear. The option to search is located just below
the black bar on the right.
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) - Search using natural language, entering the title of your book and the words "book reviews," in quotes. 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. If
the book for which you would like to find a review was published
before 1994, you will want to use Reader's Guide on Wilson
Web.
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.
MLA
Bibliography (some full-text) - 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. 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 (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 (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.
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
English Dictionary
(full-text) Search results list similar dictionary words in the
left column. Also offers pronunciations, spellings, etymologies
and date charts indicating the earliest use of the word in print.
Oxford
Language Dictionaries
(full-text) Automatic translations, useful phrases, know more about the Spanish language, calendar of events and holidays and a list of the Spanish speaking countries around the world.
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.
Scottish
Women Poets of the Romatic Period (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 ethnicity or occupation. The search options are unusually
varied. HELP
is available at all times on the upper right side of the screen.
The
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.
Times
Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (full-text) includes
more than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than
5,000 issues of the TLS are available, and for the first time, the
identities of anonymous contributors are disclosed.
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.
Women
Writers Online (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.
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.
John Milton Bibliography (citation only) Browse by subject or search by time period, primary or secondary entries, and key words.
Literary
Index from Gale (citation only) Online Index to Contemporary
Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
and other paper publications, some of which Cochran Library owns.
To use this resource it is best to open two browser windows. In
one browser window open Literary Index. In the other window, open
LION.
This way you may easily click back and forth between the two to
find the titles that are in Cochran and their call numbers.
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
For
Reference books, look in section PN 41 to PT of the Reference
Room. 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.
Literature
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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