Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Digital Library
The Digital Library celebrates November with a brand new digital collection from the Department of Music. All of the Department’s 2008 performances, concerts and recitals are available online for your listening pleasure.
November is a notable music month with the births of legendary composers Aaron Copland, Scott Joplin, and Manuel de Falla.
To access the collection, please [...]
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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 September 18th, 2009 by janestrudwick
Classical Scores Library contains hundreds of thousands of pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. Many items have associated audio tracks in Classical Music Library, so that subscribers to both collections can listen to a recording online [...]
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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 August 26th, 2009 by janestrudwick
Looking to compute in the clouds, program like a pro, fix old photographs, design a navigable web page, find answers to questions about Microsoft Office products, or finally figure out why tweeting is a revelation (or not)? Safari Books Online is a collection of current technology and business books from publishers such as O’Reilly Media, [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2009 by janestrudwick
History is a conglomeration of life experienced by the person next door. Discover the everyday lives of Civil War Soldiers, British and North American Women in the 18th and 19th centuries, American Indians, or American immigrants fleeing famine and persecution, with six new original source databases from Alexander Street Press. Expand and inform your research [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2009 by Digital Library
Digital Library celebrates the Spirit of Independence by highlighting the Jack Miller Forum, A Nation of Immigrants: American Democracy and Civics Education Conference.
This conference centered on civics education in United States, the role of colleges and universities, and the growing needs of an immigrant population. The Jack Miller Forum at Florida Atlantic [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2009 by janestrudwick
New theater databases Asian American Drama, North American Women’s Drama, and Black Drama-Second Edition highlight collections of narratives from America’s minority groups; read full texts of plays, find information about playwrights and productions, and browse playbills and other related ephemera. Theatre in Video, containing more than 250 performances of the world’s leading plays, delivers the true [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2009 by eleanorlomax
SciFinder now available on the Web!
SciFinder provides scientists with web access to the most comprehensive scientific information available. The new web version of SciFinder has a majority of features found in today’s SciFinder Scholar product plus several brand new capabilities never before available to the academic community.
All users must first register via the FAU Libraries. [...]
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