Subscription
Databases
ACLS History E-Books Project - (full-text) Search or browse your topic. Hyperlinked tables of contents allow you to jump to various book sections quickly. Printing book pages is a technical challenge, however. Please ask a librarian for assistance.
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) - Includes "Early Negro vocal group," recordings, "Negro choirs," and "Negro Religious Field Recordings" dating fromas eearly as the 1890's.
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 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. Cambridge Companions (full-text) Includes The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel in addition to other Companions relevant to African American literature. 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.
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.
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.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GaleNet) - (full-text) Results are broken down into diverse areas such as: Biography, Law Overviews, Primary Documents, Case Overviews, Legislation, Speeches, etc.
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.
London Times Digital Archives 1785-1985 (GaleNet) - (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.
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.
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.
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.
Smithsonian
Global Sounds (ASP) - (full-text) Readings, songs and instrumental recordings from around the globe.
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 1600 - 2000 (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:  .
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.
U.S. Slavery 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
Briar College Library. Revised 3/10. |
