Fuente Académica [Trial until June 30, 2008]
Fuente Académica is a rapidly growing collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including literature, linguistics, history, business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, philosophy and theology.
The International Encyclopedia of Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work sponsored by the International Communication Association. The contributors are all respected scholars in their areas of specialty.
For Communication students this, rather then Wikipedia, should be the first place to look for background and orientation to topics across the spectrum of communication topics.
The scope of subjects covered include
To find what you need browse alphabetically, by subject, people, place or period or search the full text of articles for your own keywords.
OpinionArchives
Provides an accessible and invaluable source of information of electronic archives to leading journals of opinion.
An invaluable resource, providing in-depth analysis of topics such as the cold war, the Arab-Israeli conflict, American foreign policy, defense, the Supreme Court, affirmative action, welfare, crime, immigration, religion, education, art, literature, militarism, human rights violations, environmental destruction, classical music, and much more.
Gale Directory Library: Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources is a research guide for business topics. Use it to identify the handbooks, manuals, encyclopedias, article databases, statistical sources, periodicals and trade and professional associations for industries and issues important to doing business in the US.
Dissertations & Theses Full Text (ProQuest) (1861- ; Full Text 1997 - )
A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master’s theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and more than 65,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, nearly one million are available for download in PDF format. (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).
The Library’s laptop computers are capable of sending work to the Library’s public printers. A Wildcard is required to borrow a Library laptop.
