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 contain whole videos, tracks, or segments (clips). Playlists have their own unique static URL and can be shared with others. Dance in Video is periodically updated by the publisher and will eventually feature more than 500 hours of video material.
Database of the Month
ScienceDirect – October Database of the Month
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 and retrieval functionality and new tools that allow efficient downloading of content that can be shared, stored and passed to colleagues. One can search by authors, titles, topics and utilize all your favorite boolean operators, or search on one or more disciplines. This system also produces alerts for new articles online and when a new journal issue hits the “stands.”
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JSTOR – September Database of the Month
Update (09/07/10): JSTOR has undergone a major platform change and has a new look, see JSTOR Platform Highlights for more information. Also, if you are looking for a list of FAU Libraries’ subscription databases, go directly to Indexes/Databases.
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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 search results from ArtStor), and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles, but the most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not generally available. However, several publishers provide links to the recent content on their own website, and you can include these article citations in your JSTOR search by checking the “Search for links to articles outside of JSTOR.” If FAU has access to these articles, you can click the “Find it at FAU” button to access the full text.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts – May Database of the Month
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 database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 53,200 pages of material, including more than 13,000 pages of session transcripts, more than 21,000 pages of client narratives, and more than 18,000 pages of secondary reference material. Learn more >
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The American Civil War Research Database – March Database of the Month
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 officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded bi-annually. Continue reading
Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts – February Database of the Month
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 literature. ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and a network of international and national partners.
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America’s Historical Newspapers – January Database of the Month
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 the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Continue reading
Natural Standard – December Database of the Month
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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Oxford Art Online – November Database of the Month
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 can be searched as a group or the user can select one or more individual titles to search. Included are more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images. Precise search and browse capabilities allow users to refine their results by source and subject categories. Print and Email functions are available, as well as a “How to Cite” feature for both articles and images. Citations can be exported to citation management software such as RefWorks and Endnote.
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Mergent Online – October Database of the Month
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 directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in “as-reported” form and in native currencies, maintaining the full integrity of this critical information. Read More>>
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