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Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)

Articles from social science and humanities journals about the Hispanic/Latino world.

 

Books Come To You, Anywhere You Are

Did you know The UHD Library has 190,000 eBooks?  All the ebooks are viewable on a computer, but only some are downloadable. There are a few ways to access them:

They can be browsed by broad subject area by going here: http://wj2gn4jw9z.search.serialssolutions.com/?L=WJ2GN4JW9Z&tab=BOOKS.  There is a drop-down box for browsing by subject.

They can be searched by subject, title, and author via LibSearch at http://uhd.summon.serialssolutions.com/. Enter a search topic, for example “project management.”  To get just ebooks, on the resulting page, in the left column, check off “items with full-text online” and “book/ebook.”  That should get a list of ebooks.

A very important note – as mentioned above, only some of our ebooks are downloadable to an e-reader, and, unfortunately, not to a Kindle. (Amazon only uses a proprietary format which doesn’t currently allow academic ebook subscription platforms to use.)  Our primary ebook platform, ebrary, does allow downloading of most of its books, and they can be viewed using the free Adobe Digital Editions software, which can be used on many mobile devices.  If you want to just see ebooks that can be downloaded, can go straight to ebrary at:

https://ezproxy.uhd.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uhdowntown.

Support information about downloading these ebooks can be found at http://support.ebrary.com/?cat=69.

Six-year project to tweet the Second World War

British newspaper The Telegraph describes how an Oxford history graduate has begun a six-year project to tweet events from every day of the Second World War as they happened.

You can follow the tweets here: http://twitter.com/#!/RealTimeWWII

Congratulations to UHD librarian Jovanni Lota!

The 2012 class of Emerging Leader participants have been announced and one of UHD's very own librarians has been selected.  See the announcement on the American Library Association news page.

Learn what the Emerging Leaders program is about from the ALA website.

 

Nixon's long-secret Watergate testimony coming out

WASHINGTON (AP) — Richard Nixon's grand jury testimony about the Watergate scandal that destroyed his presidency is finally coming to light. 

Read the full news article:

http://news.yahoo.com/nixons-long-secret-watergate-testimony-coming-080245445.html

The grand jury testemony isn't the only thing from that era being released by the Nixon Presidential Library.

Are science and religion compatible?

 

Explore topics from both the science and religion perspectives in the Encyclopedia of Science and Religion. 

The encyclopedia takes "a multidisciplinary approach that addresses all aspects of the dialogue between the sciences and the world's religions, reaching into the humanities as well as into the physical sciences and technology. Examines controversial issues such as human cloning and stem cell research long with more traditional questions such as the origins of life, the nature of sin, and the philosophy of science and religion."

Free access to the Scientific American 1845-1909 digital archive

"Nature Publishing Group announced the complete digitization of Scientific American, the longest continually published magazine in the U.S. The archive, extending from Vol. 1, Issue 1, is available at www.nature.com/scientificamerican/archive. The last segment of the digitized archive encompassed the inaugural issue in August 1845 through December 1909. To celebrate the completion of the archive, the 1845-1909 archive collection will be free to all to access from Nov. 1-30, 2011." 

Source: http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/emScientific-Americanem-Archive-Digitized-From--78698.asp

A description of All Saint's Day from New Orleans Picayune, 1842

As reported in the Boston Pilot, November 26, 1842: 

All Saint's Day. The New Orleans Picayune, of the 1st of Nov., has the following beautiful allusion to the late occurrence of this memorable occasion: "To-day the time honored practice of ornamenting the graves of the dead will be observed in the Catholic cemetery by the living. The father, the mother, the sister, the brother, the friend, the lover, will bedeck with flowers sweet emblems of pure remembrance the graves of dear, departed ones. It is a spiritualizing custom and never have we witnessed it that we did not feel its chastening influences. The odor of flowers is a befitting incense, to offer up over the grave of virtue and of beauty; and the tear of affection, distilled in the heart's alembic, is a true test of unforgotten love or undying friendship."

Looking for evidence from our nation's history for your paper or project ? You can find many historic American publications in the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection database.