Archive for the tag 'Humanities V Research Paper'

Magazine Archive within Google Books

January 4th, 2012

Google Books contains a collection of magazines embedded within its larger Google Books tool.  Titles range from American Woodworker, Current Organic Chemistry to Texas Monthly with many title in between.  Date range varies widely by title.

This brief video describes how to extract and search Life from within Google Books.  The same technique can be applied to any magazine within this Google collection.

 

Helpful for: Humanities, History, Science, Art, Popular Culture

 

 

E-Journal Finder: What is it?

May 4th, 2011

E-Journal Finder:  What is it?

The library’s database collection provides access to tens of thousands of digital magazines, newspapers and journals.

The library’s e-journal finder is a master list of all these thousands of magazines, newspapers and journals housed within the library’s database collection.

Use the e-journal finder to determine if the library’s databases provide access to titles such as: the Concord Monitor, American Fern Journal or Western Folklore.

The e-journal finder will not only identify if and where particular titles can be found, it will also link to that same title as housed within the associated database(s).

New Research Guide: Humanities V

April 28th, 2011

A new Humanities V research guide is available for those writing the Humanities V research paper.  Use this guide to identify useful reference sources, recommended library catalog searches, newspaper, magazine and journal articles, as well as online primary source collections.  Also included: Research Flow Chart, Noodlebib tutorials and an xtranormal animated intro to the library’s new e-journal finder.

Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) for a research consultation and/or to discuss any of the items in this guide.

New Reference Book: Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society

February 22nd, 2011

New Reference Book: Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society edited by Rodney P. Carlisle, Sage, 2009.

Find it in Ohrstrom at
: REF 790 C19P

A 2-volume set containing 450 articles focused on play, including: “games, toys, sports and entertainments found around the world.” (xii).


Examples include
:  Academic Learning & Play, Hide & Seek, Highland Games, I Spy, Mother-Child Play, Play & Evolution

Helpful for:  Global Studies, Humanities, History, Social Studies, Sports, Anthropology

New Reference Book: Agriculture in History

January 13th, 2011

Agriculture in History edited by R. Kent Rasmussen, Salem, 2010.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 630.9 R18A

A three-volume set presenting articles related to food production.  Close to 200 chronologically arranged articles beginning with the 10th millennium BCE and ending with 2002 CE.  Articles are global in scope.

Examples: 1471-1493: Inca Empire Expands and Strengthens Its Economic System; 17th Century Pepper Trade Drives the Global Economy; 1894-1895: Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Launch Dry Cereal Industry; October 1990, Africanized Bees Threaten U.S. Agriculture

Helpful for:  Eco-Action, Sustenance & Society, Global Studies, Humanities, Humanities V Research Paper, Humanities IV Research Paper, Social Justice Club.

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