Friday, January 31st, 2020
Featured database: Newspapers.com
Newspapers.com (Library Edition) is an extensive database that provides online access to 4,000+ historical newspapers. Dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s, Newspapers.com contains…
Continue reading »
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
New, award-winning humanities database: Drama Online!
Thanks to a generous donation, the Bertrand Library was able to purchase perpetual access to the award-winning database Drama Online. Acquired because of the enthusiastic…
Continue reading »
Monday, February 5th, 2018
Journal Citation Reports and impact factor.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a different sort of database – it provides a ranking of journal titles, through a formula based on how often…
Continue reading »
Monday, January 22nd, 2018
Geofacets Database to search for maps and more
The Geofacets Database is a new tool for discovering reliable geoscience information: over 1.75 million maps, figures, and tables from scientific publications. It is not…
Continue reading »
Friday, January 19th, 2018
LexisNexis Academic is now Nexis Uni!
Over the break, LexisNexis made changes to their name and user interface. Nexis Uni retains access to the source material we had in LexisNexis Academic,…
Continue reading »
Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Featured Database: Global Issues in Context
Getting started with a paper/project topic in Political Science or International Relations? Don’t know where to begin? Try Global Issues in Context!
“Global Issues In…
Continue reading »
Monday, July 10th, 2017
Interactive, Collaborative Scholarship: Mammal Species of the World
“The dynamic, rapidly changing state of mammalian taxonomy, documented by an enormous literature, long hampered the compilation of a detailed, complete world checklist.” So begins…
Continue reading »