Posted on October 30th, 2009 by janestrudwick
Dance in Video features more than 200 videos on 20th century dance productions and documentaries, and covers genres such as ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Users can browse video selections by character role, choreographer, ensemble name, and venue, or utilize the “Quick” or “Advanced” search options. They can also create playlists that [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2009 by janestrudwick
Elsevier’s ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering high impact journals in the fields of Science, Engineering, Humanities and the Social Sciences. Florida Atlantic University has access to over 1,000 of these titles, including archival collections in Business and Management, Biochemistry and Genetics, Economics, and the complete Cell Press backfiles.
The platform offers sophisticated search [...]
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Posted on August 31st, 2009 by janestrudwick
Start your research with JSTOR
JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary digital archive to support scholarship and teaching. FAU has JSTOR access to almost one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire database is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images (including [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2009 by janestrudwick
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the [...]
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Posted on March 5th, 2009 by janestrudwick
The American Civil War Research Database is the definitive online resource for researching the soldiers, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and [...]
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Posted on February 5th, 2009 by janestrudwick
Overwhelmingly cited by a majority of aquatic science librarians as their primary database, the ASFA series (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts) is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. A growing international network of information centers provides input to ASFA, by monitoring over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution [...]
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Posted on January 4th, 2009 by janestrudwick
America’s Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others, America’s Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by janestrudwick
Natural Standard was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. This international multidisciplinary collaboration now includes contributors from more than 100 eminent academic institutions. Read More >>
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Posted on November 4th, 2008 by janestrudwick
Oxford Art Online is the new home of Grove Art Online and also provides access to three other well-respected resources for art reference; The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Oxford Art Online is an extensive, authoritative and easily searchable online art resource. The resources [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2008 by janestrudwick
Mergent Online delivers a comprehensive suite of authoritative financial information with the accuracy, timeliness and transparency required in today’s marketplace. Mergent Online includes current financial information for public U.S. and international companies in addition to providing annual reports. Mergent Online offers a wealth of detail on items including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and [...]
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