Diversity Studies Collection Published By: GALE

A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, the Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.

Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.

Features and Benefits

Integrated G Suite for Education – Gmail, Classroom, Drive, Docs, and more – allow users to easily save, share, and download articles, which helps educators improve student engagement, encourage collaboration, and foster critical thinking, from anywhere and on any device
With Microsoft collaboration tools enabled, users can store, sync, and share files by downloading Gale content to OneDrive in the cloud and easily transfer content for use in other Microsoft tools likes OneNote and Classroom
Topic Finder, a visual search tool that allows users to discover new facets of their topics by connecting their search results in multiple ways
The Search Assist feature provides suggested search terms as you type
Mobile-responsive design ensures students can access the resources on the devices they use most
The interface and article translation of over 20 languages, along with Readspeaker technology (text-to-speech) allows text to be read aloud to users
Superior search indexing, gives users the ability to search by publication date, document type, publication title, publication subject; to documents with full text, to peer-reviewed publications, to documents with images; and by Lexile reading level or Lexile score
Automatically generate both APA and MLA citations in their most recent format and easily export citations into EasyBib, EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, and RefWorks
Print, download, share, and email without restrictions
Easily generate persistent URLs to any search results or document page for use in LibGuides, LMS systems, and more
Search across multiple resources with PowerSearch, providing single access to periodical and reference content – with InfoTrac periodicals and GVRL eBooks and In Context products
Connect mobile users to your library’s Gale content and resources with handy access and seamless authentication through Gale’s Access My Library® (AML) app

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity – 2nd Edition

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Second Edition) (2013): This 7-volume encyclopedia maintains the reputation of the highly regarded original, presenting the most current information available in this globally crucial area of research and study. Major themes of the work include the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity.

Digitalia Hispánica

ENGLISH Description: Digitalia Hispánica offers a new way to discover and enjoy online books written in Spanish. This collection is primarily composed of publishers and authors from Spain and the Latin American countries. Subject areas range from literature, art, and history, to science and technology. The collection is especially strong in the humanities and social sciences, religion, and philosophy.
Descripción en ESPAÑOL : Digitalia Hispánica ofrece una nueva forma de descubrir y disfrutar de los libros electrónicos en línea escritos en español. Esta colección es principalmente compuesto de editores y autores de España y los países latinoamericanos. Los temas abarcan desde la literatura, el arte y la historia, hasta la ciencia y la tecnología. La colección es especialmente fuerte en humanidades y ciencias sociales, religión y filosofía.

SWANK Digital Campus

Digital Campus by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. allows students to legally view course-assigned films once they are logged into Blackboard or FAU’s electronic library. Providing digital access to these films allows educators to enhance the distance learning experience. We now have access to numerous documentaries and the top 200 films on Digital Campus.

Benefits of using Digital Campus include:

Saving time: Valuable class time can be spent on other activities, since students can view the films outside of class.

Convenience: As long as students have Internet access on a PC or Mac, and they have downloaded the necessary free software, students can quickly and easily view assigned films from wherever they are located.

Access on demand: Having to wait to obtain a copy of a checked-out DVD is no longer a concern with Digital Campus titles. Faculty can fill out a form any time to request access to a film that is provided by Digital Campus.

Simultaneous use: Once access to the film has been provided, all students enrolled in the course can simultaneously view it.

Use of Digital Campus is limited to current FAU faculty, staff, and students.

Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s

Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s is a full-text database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s previously classified files on prominent radicals and radical organizations from 1956 to 1971. It sheds light on internal organization, personnel, and activities of some of the most prominent American radical groups and their movements to change American government and society.

This resource illuminates the enduring conflict in American history between the need of society to protect basic freedoms and the equally legitimate need to protect itself from genuine threats to its security and existence.

Organized alphabetically by organization, the Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s collection covers a wide range of viewpoints on issues including:

Political
Social
Cultural
Economic

This collection supports a wide variety of courses in the study of:

U.S. history
Cultural studies
Radical politics
Social movements

Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s provides valuable information and reference materials on the most influential individuals, groups and activities of a critical era in American history. Including:

COINTELPRO: The Counterintelligence Program of the FBI
FBI File on Abbie Hoffman
FBI File on the Black Panther Party, North Carolina
FBI File on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers
FBI File on the Fire Bombing and Shooting at Kent State University
FBI Files on Malcolm X
FBI File: MIBURN (Mississippi Burning
FBI File on Muslim Mosque, Inc.
FBI File on the Organization of Afro-American Unity
FBI File on the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weatherman Underground Organization
FBI File on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
FBI Investigation File on Communist Infiltration of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)

HaPI is an Essential Collection of Information on Behavioral Measurement Instruments.

Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, this comprehensive bibliographic database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. It also provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from Industrial Organizational Behavior and Education.

A Rich Resource with Extensive Coverage

Encompassing nearly 190,000 records, HaPI is comprised of bibliographic information for peer-reviewed scholarly journals, books, technical reports, and test publishers’ catalogs. The essential resource for researchers, students, clinicians and more, HaPI features coverage of more than 80 unique behavioral measurement tools and instruments which are used across professions and disciplines, including nursing, public health, psychology, social work, communication, sociology, and organizational behavior or human resources.

Updated on a quarterly basis, HaPI is also continuously adding new records, further supplementing researchers with up-to-date, high-quality information.

Provides a Detailed Record for Every Entry

Each record within HaPI includes the following detailed information: title, acronym, authors, language, index terms and references. Some records also contain abstracts, sample items, number of questions, subscales, reliability and other information.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

November-December 2016 Database of the Month

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is an online resource of documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.

With more than 500,000 pages aggregated from 300 international publishing institutions, CIAO is a unique and valuable archive and cross-searchable library of full-text articles from government research organizations, independent think tanks, university analysis centers, and scholarly journals.

The material in CIAO encompasses working papers, policy briefs, and current analysis and commentary, as well as scholarly journal articles, e-books, and videos. The Economist Intelligence Unit supplies comprehensive country surveys, including in-depth political and economic data and detailed maps.

Nearly 700 institutions currently subscribe to CIAO. University libraries, high schools, government agencies, and global research institutions all benefit from this ever-growing resource with more than 40,000 new pages added each year.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Gold Package

October 2016 Database of the Month

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Gold Package is a premium online package made up of 36 chemical science journals, an eBook series issue in Environmental Science & Technology, Backfile Annual Reports Sections A, B and C (1967 – 2013), Education in Chemistry Magazine, RSC Advances and Chemical Science open access journals, and Chemistry Education Research and Practice.

Journals included in RSC Gold cover the breadth of chemistry and related fields.**

Analytical
Biological
Catalysis
Chemical biology & medicinal
Energy
Environmental
Food
General chemistry
Inorganic
Materials
Nanoscience
Organic
Physical

FAU Digital Library Updates

2015-2016 New Content Added to Digital Collections

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60 new broadsides have been added to the SWEAT collection for the Jaffe Center for Book Arts.

512 publications added Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) Faculty Papers collection.

40 reports added to the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) Technical Reports collection.

105 new pieces of digitized sheet music were added to the Sheet Music collection.

The Digital Library has completed the Political, Rights Issues, and Social Movements (PRISM) collection, a 6 year long collaborative project with the University of Central Florida, now finished with the final addition of 642 pamphlets.

For the 2015-2016 academic year, 256 graduate student manuscripts have been added to the Electronic Theses and Dissertations collection.

Since October 2015 the Digital Library has digitized and made openly accessible more than 600 retropsective print theses and dissertations now available in the Legacy ETD collection.

Florida Atlantic University’s Undergraduate and Graduate Research collections showcases 150 newly added abstracts and posters from 2015 research day events.

Announcing two new College of Arts and Letters faculty collections: more than 60 hours of video lectures have been added to the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture collection and in progress is the Generations: LGBT oral histories collection. The Center for Body, Mind and Culture contains video lectures and workshops conducted at a host of international locations by Dr. Shusterman, Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture. Generations is an oral histories project led by Dr. Fred Fejes of the Peace, Justice, Human Rights Initiative and School of Multimedia Studies.

Coming Soon! Collections under construction:

Theodore Pratt
Norman Nathan
Weiner Pamphlets
Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics

These collections are brought to you by the dedicated work of the Digital Library team.

Charlotte Barna, Digital Library

Kylie Calnan, student assistant

Cathy Chesla, Technical Services

James Drayton, Music Performance & Education

Sinekka Manges, Access Services

Gabbie Matthew, student assistant

Annaleah Morse, Special Collections

Margareta Neulinger, Digital Library

Joanne Parandjuk, Digital Library

Sunghae Ress, Digital Library

Lucy Valdiviezo, Access Services

RefWorks: New Version!

This update to RefWorks provides a new way to collect, manage and organize research papers and documents. You can read annotate, organize, and cite your research, as well as collaborate with friends and colleagues by sharing collections.

RefWorks’ drag and drop capability along with smart document recognition makes it easy and fast to upload documents and bibliographic metadata into your library, and the Save to RefWorks feature allows you to capture research from websites with the click of a button. The new version of RefWorks also includes a more robust citation style editor, with the ability to choose from over 1,000 citation styles and edit each style to fit your exact needs.

For more information on the new version of RefWorks, please see the following research guides:

FAU Libraries: RefWorks – New!

ProQuest: New RefWorks