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Turn on, Tune in, Drop out, or Just Browse the Sixties

Shortly after the demonstration, I got a call from Manny, my college roommate. He was now an army psychologist, working on secret LSD experiments with soldiers (recently it was revealed that these experiments were CIA-funded), and he wanted to know if I was interested in trying some. “Sure,” I replied. I had never even tried marijuana, but I heard talk about LSD at Maslow’s house. At Berkeley, I had lined up at the Langley Porter Clinic for two hours hoping to be a subject in an LSD experiment, but the quota was filled. They paid volunteers one hundred and fifty dollars to take it then!

The CIA Turned Me On to LSD, by Abbie Hoffman. In Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, by Abbie Hoffman. (New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 2000).

Find this book and other primary sources in the new FAU database, The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974.

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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

Eighteenth Century Collections Online Upgrades

Discover Eighteenth Century Collections Online and get up close and personal with history. You can access images of books published between 1701 and 1800, check out accounts of voyages and discoveries, browse historical biographies and memoirs, or search genealogical collections, gazetteers, works on church antiquities and tourist guides of Britain.

Already familiar with Eighteenth Century Collections Online?  Check out the new look and look for these added features:

  • Research Guide section for undergraduates with contextual essays and chronology
  • Image Gallery
  • Most Popular Searches and Key Documents sections
  • Citation generator and export functionality
  • Expanded download and e-mail features
  • Keyword in Context feature from results list

Connect here to access Eighteenth Century Collections Online off campus.

Diversity and Digital Collections@FAU Libraries

For Black History Month, the Digital Library features its Pearl City Oral History Collection. Pearl City was Boca Raton’s pioneering African-American community. One of the featured interviews is with Ms. Lois Dolphus Martin where she describes her 1930s segregated school experience at Roadman’s Elementary School, the first school in Pearl City.

 The Roadman Elementary SchoolRoadman Elementary School

The school was first called Boca Elementary and the name was changed when it was moved to Dixie Highway and what is now Glades Road here in Boca Raton, Florida.   Martin’s firsthand account sheds light on race relations as they existed in Delray Beach and Boca, and the events and changes over the decades which brought diversity to our community. To read and listen to Lois Martin’s interview or other Pearl City resident interviews click here.

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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BioOne has a New Platform

BioOne  is a not-for-profit collaboration that provides access to critical peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. The new BioOne platform includes:

  • Easy reference downloads to all major citation managers (including EndNote, RefWorks). See Downloading to a Citation Manager help page.
  • Title-level tools such as RSS feeds, new issue e-alerting, and title/publisher information (including current ISI Journal Citation rankings)
  • Article-level tools such as related article and author searches, and reference linking both within and outside of BioOne
  • Free, personalized profile through “My BioOne” allowing for saved searches, favorite journals, e-alerting preferences, and institutional holdings

Also see BioOne’s Featured Articles, a special section highlighting selected articles by participating BioOne publishers.  Many articles are open access; log in here to access FAU subscribed titles off campus.

Get Friendly with CINAHL

 

Familiarize yourself with the Nursing and Allied Health database, CINAHL, and discover new teaching tools. A special section of EBSCO’s Support Site (http://support.ebscohost.com/cinahl) is dedicated to a “wide variety of support and training tools designed to help you learn how to get the most from EBSCO’s CINAHL database.”  

Some of these tools include:

Visit http://training.ebsco.com to sign up for free webinars.

Click here for Off Campus Connect (EZProxy).

New Database – Tests in Print

Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). This bibliography can also serve as a guide to test reviews published in Mental Measurements Yearbook.

Click here for Off Campus Connect (EZproxy).

Classical Music Library Has a New Look

In addition to a new interface, the latest release of Classical Music Library includes new features and updates.

  • Album Browse: Browse all classical works by album and find associated recordings.
  • Updated Playlists: Individual items in a playlist can be annotated, and links to any item (whether available in Classical Music Library or on the Web) can easily be added.
  • Content Sharing: Create, name, and annotate a personal playlist. Then choose to share it with other users at your institution, or with anyone who subscribes to Classical Music Library.
  • Advanced Search: The improved Advanced Search allows you to limit results to recordings where the complete work is available. Continue reading