Archive for the tag 'Humanities V'

New Research Guide: Cold War Speech Project

January 12th, 2012

A new research guide for the humanities Cold War Speech project  is available on the library’s website.  Use this guide to identify and review: useful eReference sources, recommended library catalog searches (for both print and eBooks), historical newspapers, historical newsreels and Noodlebib citation tutorials.

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 Research Guide: Atomic Bomb Conference

November 14th, 2011

A new research guide for the humanities Atomic Bomb Conference project  is available on the library’s website.  Use this guide to identify and review: useful eReference sources, recommended library catalog searches (for both print and eBooks), historical newspapers, historical newsreels and Noodlebib citation tutorials.

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: The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History

May 19th, 2011

The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History edited by Stanley N. Katz, Oxford, 2009.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 340 Ox21

This 6-volume set focuses on concepts and subjects related to international legal history from ancient times to the present day.  Examples include:

  • Adoption – Ancient Greek Law
  • Doctors’ Commons
  • Gambling in Chinese Law
  • Land – Leases of Land in English Common Law
  • Punishment – United States Law
  • Succession – Hindu Law


Helpful for
: Historical legal research, Global Studies,  Humanities, Social Justice Club

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.

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