LG 480 Senior SeminarFall
2007 |
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University Library Homepage: http://library.southalabama.edu
LG 480 Senior SeminarFall
2007 |
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University Library Homepage: http://library.southalabama.edu
USA's SOUTHcat Catalog--Reference and circulating books, government documents, and audio-visuals and electronic books. "History," "Bookbag," "Hold/Recal", "My Acccount."
Can set limits by language. See "Set More Limits" button.NetLibrary. Though "Electronic Books" link on the homepage or through the USA SOUTHcat Catalog.
ACLS Humanities E-Book--a careful selection of 1500 full-text humanities (but mostly history) books online.
WorldCat.org--public version of FirstSearch WorldCat. Easier to search, but less sophisticated searching. Easy identification of other libraries' holdings.
Google Books Project--http://books.google.com
The following can be found on the Articles, Indexes, Databases page unless otherwise stated.
Academic Search Premier. Ebsco. Some full-text. Includes book reviews. General database--some journals in almost every field of study. English only. * for truncation.
Academic OneFile. Gale/ InfoTrac. General database--some journals in almost every field of study. Many full-text. Includes book reviews. English only. * for truncation.
Project Muse-- 260+ current full text journals (mostly humanities)
JSTOR --This is a collection of full-text journals which are usually at least 3 to 5 years old, but often extend back many years. The journals may be searched separately or as disciplinary groups. Several languages. "Quote marks" for phrases, * for truncation.
Periodical Articles Online--similar to JSTOR. * for truncation "Quote marks" for phrases.
LexisNexis for current news articles. International. Includes "Non-English Language News" (exclamation point ! for truncation)
ARTFL American Research on the Treasury of the French Language Medieval to 20th century. Nearly 2000 French texts including literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. The 18th, 19th and 20th centuries with fewer of 17th century texts and some medieval and Renaissance items.
Le Trésor de la Langue Française InformatiséLiterature indexes: MLA. EBSCO. An literature and linguistics index of journal articles, books and dissertations, Literature Resource Center. Gale/InfoTrac; Literary Reference Center. EBSCO.
Informe. Gale/InfoTrac. full-text articles from popular Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals.
ClasePeriodica. FirstSearch. Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities (FirstSearch)
Business indexes: Emerald Library, EBSCO's Business Source Premier, Gale/InfoTrac's General Business File ASAP
Appointments with Reference Librarians:
Name
Department
Phone Number
Reference Desk webref@jaguar1.usouthal.edu Mary Engebretson Continuing Ed mengebre@jaguar1.usouthal.edu 6-2825
Kathy Jones Communication & Social Sciences kjones@jaguar1.usouthal.edu 6-2829
Amy Prendergast Sciences & Technology aprender@jaguar1.usouthal.edu 6-2827
Jan Sauer Library Instruction jsauer@jaguar1.usouthal.edu Kathy Wheeler Electronic Services, Math & Stats kwheeler@jaguar1.usouthal.edu (251) 460-7938
Jerry Wright Humanities & Education jwright@jaguar1.usouthal.edu 6-5986
Deborah Harrington Business ( in MCOB Library) dlharrington@usouthal.edu
DOAJ --Directory of Open Access Journals--free academic journals from universities and scholarly groups.
Open Directory>Arts?Literature>World Literature
LII--Librarians' Internet Index
Evaluating Websites--criteria for judging a website and more
Google Scholar--links to some books and articles by Google; most are not fulltext, some are. But it's useful for verifying a citation and finding who cited whom.
Google Advanced (no truncation)
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