Six Americans have volunteered to take part in a border experience they will never forget. They have little in common except for their strong opinions about illegal undocumented immigrants. Over the next four weeks, the six will embark on an arduous and often heart-breaking journey to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Chiapas, southern Mexico, but only . . .Continue reading Borderland
Tag: Embrace This Database
New Database: Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a collection of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. This hard-to-find content provides primary source . . .Continue reading New Database: Ethnic NewsWatch
Antidote to Information Overload
Annual Reviews was founded by scientists in 1932 to address their constant challenge – finding time to read the most important research in their discipline. A review article is a gateway to essential primary research. By synthesizing knowledge from original research, the review article provides researchers with an antidote to information overload. They critically examine and . . .Continue reading Antidote to Information Overload
How to Successfully Surf a MeSH Pit
No, sorry, your librarians are not experts in surfing mosh pits. However, we can offer helpful tips for searching PubMed using MeSH terms. This video demonstrates how to use the MeSH, or Medical Subject Headings, database to create a targeted PubMed search. MeSH is the controlled vocabulary used for indexing PubMed citations. If you have questions or . . .Continue reading How to Successfully Surf a MeSH Pit
Can you identify this bird?
A strange bird has been spotted on Furman’s lake. Some believe it to be a brown booby blown off its migration pattern by a storm. What do you think? The Furman University Libraries have a subscription to Birds of North America Online. BNA Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds . . .Continue reading Can you identify this bird?
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center This comprehensive resource for career exploration and planning allows users to quickly find the valuable career information they need, whether it’s industry and professions articles, school planning resources, or skills and career advice. This online resource can be accessed from the All Databases link on the library’s homepage. Highlights: Industries and . . .Continue reading Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
New Content in Artstor
New Content in Artstor If you are curious at all about the new content that Artstor adds on a regular basis, be sure to check out the Artstor blog. A quick review reveals amazing treasures: restoration projects of Mexican architectural landmarks Japanese and South Korean contemporary architecture new images from the Corning Museum of Glass . . .Continue reading New Content in Artstor
Embrace this Database: ImageQuest
Today is the anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamen, one of the most important archaeological discoveries of modern times. On November 4, 1922, more than 3,200 years after King Tut’s reign, British archaeologist, Howard Carter, discovered one of the only unplundered royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes (modern . . .Continue reading Embrace this Database: ImageQuest
Newly Acquired Databases
We have added the following new databases to the All Databases link on the library’s homepage. HeinOnline HeinOnline is a fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials and more than 2,300 scholarly journals, all of the world’s constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of . . .Continue reading Newly Acquired Databases
The Year of Intelligence
The first full year of the Gerald R. Ford administration is known as “The Year of Intelligence,” denoting a season of inquiry into America’s spy agencies set off by a wave of media revelations of official abuses and wrongdoing that predate the current era of media and congressional investigations by decades. Within the Central Intelligence . . .Continue reading The Year of Intelligence