LG 480 Senior Seminar Fall 2008 Dr. Susan McCready Department of Foreign Languages & Literature University of South Alabama

University Library Homepage: http://library.southalabama.edu

Books:

USA's SOUTHcat Catalog--Reference and circulating books, government documents, and audio-visuals and electronic books. "History," "Bookbag," "Hold/Recal", "My Acccount." Can set limits by language. See "Set More Limits" button. Use ? for truncation.

NetLibrary. Though "Electronic Books" link on the homepage or through the USA SOUTHcat Catalog.

ACLS Humanities E-Book--a careful selection of 1500 full-text humanities (mostly history) books online.

WorldCat.org--huge catalog of 100s of libraries combined. Identification of other libraries' holdings and connection to ILL.

Google Books Project--http://books.google.com

The following can be found on the Articles, Indexes, Databases page unless otherwise stated. For most of the following use "quotes" around phrases and an asterisk * for truncation.

Academic Search Premier. Ebsco. Some full-text. Includes book reviews. General database--some journals in almost every field of study. English only.

Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale/InfoTrac General academic database--some journals in almost every field of study. English only.

Academic OneFile. Gale/ InfoTrac. General database. Broader coverage than previous entry. Many full-text. Includes book reviews. English only.

Project Muse-- 260+ current full text journals (mostly humanities). May limit by language.

JSTOR --This is a collection of full-text journals which are usually at least 3 to 5 years old, but often extend back many years. The journals may be searched separately or as disciplinary groups. Several languages. "Quote marks" for phrases, * for truncation. May limit by language.

Periodical Articles Online--similar to JSTOR. May limit by language

LexisNexis for current news articles. International. Includes "Non-English Language News." (NB: exclamation point ! for truncation)

ARTFL American Research on the Treasury of the French Language Medieval to 20th century. Nearly 2000 French texts including literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. The 18th, 19th and 20th centuries with fewer of 17th century texts and some medieval and Renaissance items.
Le Trésor de la Langue Française Informatisé

Literature indexes:

• MLA. EBSCO. An literature and linguistics index of journal articles, books and dissertations,
• Literature Resource Center. Gale/InfoTrac;
• Literary Reference Center. EBSCO.

Biography Reference Bank. ProQuest. Biographical essays from several sources and links to more current articles.

Informe. Gale/InfoTrac. full-text articles from popular Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals.

ClasePeriodica. FirstSearch. Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities

Business indexes:

• Emerald Library, EBSCO
• Business Source Premier, EBSCO
• General Business File ASAP Gale/InfoTrac

Google Scholar

Services you need to know about:

Our Journal List

Interlibrary Loan

Appointments with Reference Librarians:

Useful Web Sites:

DOAJ --Directory of Open Access Journals--free academic journals from universities and scholarly groups.

Open Directory>Arts?Literature>World Literature

LII--Librarians' Internet Index

Smart Web Searching;

Evaluating Websites--criteria for judging a website and more

Google Scholar--links to some books and articles by Google; most are not fulltext, some are. But it's useful for verifying a citation and finding who cited whom.

Google Book--some out-of-copyright (old) full-text, downloadable books; many still protected with 'limited preview' or snippets available.

Google Advanced (no truncation)

Yahoo Advanced

Online Style Guides:

Bedford/St. Martin Sample Paper and Documentation

EBSCO makes citations when set in email, print or save. Brief Citation, APA, MLA or Chicago.

Plagiarism and Turnitin Information

Some useful Keyword Searches. Remember to adapt the truncation symbol ( ? * ! ) and the use of "and" "or" to the particular databaseyou choose.

last modified Sept. 22, 2008