UCUR--Mixed Disciplines

Jan Sauer, June 15, 2007

SOUTHcat Catalog:

Search for books, journals(not articles), dvds and government documents owned or subscribed to by USA. Publicly available at http://library.southalabama.edu

Our Journal List:

This is a database of all the journals we subscribe to in print and electronically. Once you have a citation to an article, go here to see if the Libraries have a subscription to this particular volume, issue and year of the journal you need. Occasionally the information is incorrect and/or unclear. Call us at 460-7025 if you have any question about the availability of these journals. NOTE: Some magazine and journal publishers "embargo" the latest year of electronic versions. This means that the most recent issues will not be available online for a year from their publication date.

InterLibrary Loan:

For students holding Jag cards, the library will borrow books and articles we don't have from other libraries for you. The process requires creating a profile, login and password which are invoked when you need this service called ILLIAD. If we are able to find the items in libraries with which we have reciprocal agreements, there is no charge. NB: If you are in a medical, BMD, nursing or allied health field use the Biomedical Library Interlibrary Loan. All other disciplines use the University Library ILLIAD

 

Articles, Indexes, Databases: http://www.usouthal.edu/univlib/other.html

3) Where do you find Books?

a. SOUTHcat Catalog -what we own; open to anyone on the 'net

b. NetLibrary -8000+ electronic books [subscription]

c. Reference Books Reference Area, 2nd floor North: encyclopedias, reference books

d. E-Reference --subscription-based and free reference sources

e. WorldCat.org--huge database of books from most U.S. and many world libraries

g. Books in Print from E-Reference -- what's in print and forthcoming; publisher's list

h. Other Library Catalogs on the Web -- find out if an item is in a specific library

i InfoPass --at SHC or U of Mobile? Ask at the Reference Desk

4) Where do you find Scholarly Journal Articles?

l. Academic Search Premier [Under Ebsco] some full-text

m. Academic OneFile [Under Gale/InfoTrac] some full-text

n. JSTOR All full-text; all PDF, slightly (3-5 years) older

o. Many, Many Others: See list of databases--alphabetical or by subject.

5) Where do you go to find Newspaper Articles?

q. Mobile Register 1992 - present. [Data from 10/01 to 1/10/03 is currently unavailable] full-text

r. LexisNexis--full-text major newspapers and regional ones

s. Ethnic NewsWatch scroll down page to "E" full text to smaller ethnic newspapers

t. Newspaper Source [Under EBSCO] --full-text

More Resource Guides to Books, Articles and Websites:

Topic Guides

Electronic Reference Sources

Style Guides:

Research and Documentation Online

Other Style Guides

Plagiarism

 

page by Amy Prendergast, Science & Technology Reference Librarian
460-7025
last modified May 20. 2009