Your campus librarians are always glad to assist you with effective strategies to search for reliable academic resources to research a multitude of topics. A great place to start is emailing us at iueref@iue.edu or clicking the “Ask Us!” red button at the library website: https://www.iue.edu/library.
Another approach to learning is the adventure of discovery through browsing. We hope you will find our Campus Library resources amazingly awesome and interesting! Here are some highlights and samplings, easily accessible via the “A-Z List” http://iue.libguides.com/a-zlist using your IU East log-in credentials.
Access World News – NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues. This database even includes 124 newspapers from Indiana.
Biography Reference Center – In addition to keyword searching you can locate biographies of interest by browsing key categories, including occupation, nationality, publication and more than 30 genre categories including actors, artists, athletes, authors, current world leaders, explorers, scientists and many others.
Caribbean Literature is a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. They are presented in the original language, including English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. It also features dictionaries of the Creole spoken in these countries. Caribbean Literature gives users immediate access to a treasury of classic, rare, and contemporary literature. The database has more than 101,594 pages.
Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) is a reference source that since 1982 has provided indexing and abstracting a large selection of U.S. government documents obtained from presidential libraries. These libraries receive declassified documents from various government agencies, including the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and others.
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978.
Web of Science (Knowledge) University provides access to the world’s leading scholarly journal literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Search by cited reference, author, topic, publication name, and more. Results can be analyzed by document type, institution name, source title, and subject area.
Want to search by subject? We have that option also! http://iue.libguides.com/db-subjects
The organization of the subjects included in this LibGuide reflects the strength of the databases to support the subject indicated.
- Subject databases provide the most important & relevant articles and citations for the the indicated subject;
- Muti-disciplinary databases include the indicated subject among many subjects;
- Supplementary databases provide support and peripheral information to the the indicated subject.
Whatever your approach to gaining knowledge, we’re here to help you on the research journey! iueref@iue.edu