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New Databases

e-resources, reference databases May 30, 2011 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

The library has 3 new databases! You now can search these influential British newspapers: Picture Post Historical Archive, the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, and the Illustrated London News Historical Archive. The Illustrated London News covers its full run, from its founding in 1842 to when it ceased publication in 2003. The ILN was the first weekly newspaper to feature pictures in every edition (drawings at first, but gradually replaced with photographs around the turn of the century). The magazine had a strong conservative bent, as most newspapers of the time took strong partisan positions. At its height, the ILN sold hundreds of thousands of copies of each weekly issue. The Picture Post is the shortest archive, covering the newspaper’s … Continued

Strategies for database searching

e-resources, good information, reference databases May 2, 2011 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

Chances are, if you’ve used a library database, you’ve used one of the EBSCO databases. Some of the databases provided by the vendor EBSCO are available to Indiana residents through Inspire, and Ohio residents through OhioLink. At IU East, a third of our full-text journals are available through the EBSCO interface. In 2010, IU East students, faculty, and staff searched an EBSCO database 114,240 times, retrieving 102,280 full-text articles. EBSCO provides general search databases like MasterFile and Academic Search Premier. They also have specialized databases. For example, if you’re working on a health topic, you could use MedLine, CINAHL, and Health Source. A criminal justice paper? PsycInfo and SocIndex will work well for you. Economics? Try Business Source Premier. Education? … Continued

Free, yes free…try it now!

e-resources, libguides, reference databases April 11, 2011 Frances Yates, Library Resources fyates 0 Comments

If “free” seems too good to be true, ok, it’s only free for a limited time. But truly, “free trials” offered by publishers and vendors are a great opportunity to navigate through all sorts of interesting resources. And your Campus Library really does want your feedback to find out if these are potentially useful purchases. E-resources librarian Sue McFadden has pulled together these free trials in a handy libguide: http://iue.libguides.com/trials Please peruse and let us know if any of these would help you with your research!

ProQuest Possibilities

e-resources, reference databases March 21, 2011 Caitlin Tracey-Miller, Library Resources ctraceym 0 Comments

If you’ve visited the IU East Campus Library or searched for online library resources, you have probably seen or heard the word “ProQuest.” If you have searched for peer-reviewed articles for a research paper, you have likely used a ProQuest database. Have you ever wondered what ProQuest is and what it does? ProQuest is one of a few large vendors that compile academic material for libraries to purchase as database subscriptions. ProQuest offers general and specialized databases. To begin a search of one of the ProQuest databases, you click on the Research tab on the library webpage: http://iue.edu/library/research Click on “Find Articles and Journals” A list of available databases will appear, and you can specify search terms, or browse the … Continued

How do I love thee?

e-resources February 7, 2011 Frances Yates fyates 0 Comments

On February 14th the Campus Library will be the site of love poems read with passion and panache by students in Alyssa Clapp-Itnyre’s Victorian Literature course. Co-hosted by the Humanities Club and the Friends of the IU East Campus Library, this poetry reading event is sure to set your heart a flitter with enjoyment. Please join us (tba). Until then, you can enjoy these e-books about Victorian lives and literature: Great Victorian lives: an era in obituaries Sanders, Andrew, 1946- London : Times Books, 2007. Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists: theories of vision in Victorian literature and science Smajic, Srdjan, 1974- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. Novel violence: a narratography of Victorian fiction Stewart, Garrett. Chicago ; London : … Continued