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 28th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of September 28, 2009
News Item: De facto Libyan leader Colonel Muammar el-Quaddafi (sometimes spelled “Muammar al-Gadaffi”) recently made headlines when he spoke during a United Nations General Assembly session for 90 minutes, at least 75 minutes longer than his allotted time. The speech covered a wide variety of topics including swine flu (H1N1 Flu), [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of September 21, 2009
Fashion, Fashion Everywhere
News Items:
The September Issue, a documentary released in late-August, highlights the work of editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her staff at Vogue as they prepare for the largest-ever 2007 fall issue (which eventually weighed over [...]
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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contains hundreds of thousands of pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores.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 September 15th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of September 14, 2009
News Item: September 15 through October 15 is Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month. This week In the News looks at titles published since 2000 that relate to Latino, Chicano, and Hispanic cultures.
Atlas of Hispanic-American History
By George Ochoa and Carter Smith. Facts on File, 2009
Call Number: E184 .S75 O287 2009 (Boca Raton Reference - [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2009 by Ellen Randolph
FAU Libraries and Special Collections are pleased to announce the launch of a new webpage dedicated to the American Civil War, FAU Collections of the American Civil War.
The new site will facilitate student and faculty research by describing collections and providing item-level lists of our materials relating to the American Civil War and the period [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of September 8, 2009
News Item: This week, we list titles that focus specifically on the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Some of the subject areas include literature, commerce, sociology, political science, music, history, and criminology.
110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11
Edited by Ulrich Baer. New York University Press, 2002
Call Number: [...]
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