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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.

Oxford Reference Online

UHD Library — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:15:56 -0500

Oxford Reference Online has been added to the UHD Library's online collections. This database offers English language dictionaries and thesauruses, bilingual dictionaries, and quotation dictionaries, plus specialized subject dictionaries in art, biology, literature, and many other fields.

Look for Oxford Reference Online on our Dictionaries page and on a variety of subject pages.

Web of Science Training

UHD Library — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:35:26 -0600

What: Web of Science® Seminar (1.5 hours)
When: Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 1:30PM-3PM
Where: Library Instruction Room 1

Are you interested in discovering who is citing your work or the work of others? Learn how to use the Web of Science (Science Citation Index ExpandedTM, Social Sciences Citation Index®, Arts & Humanities Citation Index®) to utilize your research time more efficiently. This seminar covers:

The publication selection process
Using the search interfaces for topic, author, source title, and address searching, as well as more advanced set and field combination searching
How to expand your literature search using the unique Related Records® search
How to use cited reference searching to navigate the literature and discover who is citing your research and the research of others
E-mailing, saving, printing, or exporting your results
Saving a search history so you can use it later to find new information
Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates.

New Books & Videos (October 2007)

UHD Library — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:37:25 -0600

The New Books and Videos lists have been updated for October:

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

UHD Library — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:39:42 -0500

We are pleased to announce the purchase of Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), the leading index of scholarly publications in linguistics and related fields. LLBA is ideal for students of English-, Spanish-, or French-language studies. It also offers helpful references to publications on interpersonal behavior and communication. Look for LLBA on our databases guides for English, French, Spanish, and Communications.