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Periodicals Archive Online

UHD Library — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:22:06 -0500

The library has added backfiles of 550 journals from the social sciences and the humanities in Periodicals Archive Online. The collection offers well-known journals in literature, history, philosophy, religion, and Spanish-language scholarship, as well as general-interest magazines. Noteworthy titles include Bentley's Miscellany (1837-1868), the original publisher of novels by Charles Dickens and stories by Edgar Allen Poe; Commentary (1945-2000); Harper's (1850-1995); Sight and Sound (1932-1995); and The Spectator (1828-2000).

New Journals in Social Sciences & Humanities

UHD Library — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:57:59 -0500

This month the library added more than 900 journals in the Social Sciences and the Humanities as part of an ongoing initiative to build strong journal collections in all subjects taught at UHD. We expect to purchase more new journals in the fall, so please send us your recommendations.

Here are some of the new journals purchased this month:

For more journals purchased as part of our journals initiative, please see the Taylor & Francis Humanities & Social Sciences Library, New Journals in Social Work, National Council of Teachers of English Journals, and ScienceDirect Journals & E-Books.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

UHD Library — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:50:17 -0600

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is now available at UHD. With its coverage of 2.4 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses, this database is an essential repository of scholarship in almost every field of study. For older documents, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses provides a short absract. For more than 930,000 documents from 1997 to present, it offers access to the full text in PDF format.

Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia

UHD Library — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:40:44 -0600

The Gale Virtual Reference Library database now includes the 17-volume ebook collection Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. This set offers substantial biographies of more than 10,000 women from around 3100 BCE to the modern age. Biographies cover women from every walk of life and every corner of the world. Each biography has a list of related books, videos, and archival collections. Look for the Gale Virtual Reference Library in the Find Articles (Databases) section of the library website.

EBSCOhost 2.0

UHD Library — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:29:52 -0500

EBSCOhost has released a new version of its popular database system. EBSCOhost 2.0 introduces a new look to databases such as Academic Search Complete, America: History & Life, Communication & Mass Media Complete, ERIC, MEDLINE, MLA International Bibliography, PsycINFO, and SocINDEX. At first, the changes will be cosmetic -- a simplified search screen, a different way of displaying search results, and easy access to the popular "How to Cite" feature. Later in 2008, EBSCOhost will use Google search technology to rank search results by relevance.

If you have questions or concerns about EBSCOhost 2.0, please share them with us by commenting on this blog or by sending an e-mail message to Ask a Librarian. We will share your comments with EBSCOhost and work with them to resolve any problems that may arise from this significant update.