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.

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

The Chronicle of Higher Education

August/September 2016 Database of the Month

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle’s website features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

If you are on campus, simply go to Chronicle.com for access. If you are off campus, access The Chronicle by using links available on the library website, or by going to Chronicle.com and creating an account using your @fau.edu email address.

Nursing Assessment in Video

April 2016 Database of the Month

Nursing Assessment in Video provides demonstrations and step-by-step instructions for performing physical assessments of patients.

Nursing Assessment in Video is an online database that provides access to the best-selling assessment series of training videos from Medcom Inc. Each title features leading industry experts providing hands-on demonstrations and step-by-step instructions in key assessment areas. All content was produced since 2012, so users can depend on the collection to deliver the most accurate, up-to-date information available.

Topical Coverage

Titles in Nursing Assessment in Video include:

The Respiratory System
The Key to Quality Patient Care
The Musculoskeletal System
The Digestive System
The Integumentary System
Head and Neck, Mouth and Throat
Eyes, Ears, and Nose
The Male Genitourinary System
Head-to-Toe Assessment
The Female Genitourinary System
The Cardiovascular System, Part 1: Anatomy and Subjective Data
The Cardiovascular System, Part 2: Objective Data
The Nervous System, Part 1: Anatomy and Subjective Data
The Nervous System, Part 2: Objective Data

Human Rights Studies Online

March 2016 Database of the Month

Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing in one place comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection is growing to include 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of video that give voice to the countless victims of human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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nature.com Complete

February 2016 Database of the Month

Nature.com Complete provides full-text access to 80 titles from Nature Publishing Group and partner societies, with archives dating back to 1869. Search across life science and physical research journals, life science review journals, clinical review journals, as well as complimentary web content. Some of the signifcanct titles include Nature, Nature Protocols, Nature Communications, Nature Methods, and Scientific American.

See the nature.com Complete list of publications.