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Escape to adventure with movies from the Library!
Writing the Great American Screenplay over the summer?
Pick up some tips from the pros by watching DVDs from the series Interview with screenwriter... . From silly to serious, from the likes of the Farrelly brothers, Susannah Grant, Paul Haggis, and more. Check them out at the multimedia desk!
It's Summer!
We're still here, but we're on summer hours
from Sunday, May 25th through Monday, August 25th. See the Hours page for more details.
Ever wish you could play along with the greats?
Now you can practice your jazz improvisation with our collection of Jamey Aebersold's playalong CDs. Check them out at the Multimedia Desk.
Art Index Retro, 1929-1984, provides online access to replace the print volumes of this index to art periodicals; Art Index (to which we already subscribe) picks up 1984-present.
Gale Virtual Reference is a resource to which we’ve added 33 more online encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference materials such as Business Plans, Encyclopedia of Religion, Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology, Social Trends and Indicators, etc.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 consists of more than 37,000 full-text books, pamphlets and broadsides documenting early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. The Evans Collection is the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1962 and 2008, in 118 languages.
All Shakespeare, all the time.
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's annual compilation of data about development, including data organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.
If you need stats on development, this is your database!
Dissertations & Theses: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection
These digital dissertations form a comprehensive collection of scholarly research in the humanities, social sciences, and education, with more than 1 million dissertations and theses, available full-text online.
RGE Monitor provides analysis and "ahead-of-the-curve" global economic insights, with distillation of the best thinking on all sides of geo-political issues on topics of Global Macroeconomics, Emerging Markets, World Markets, Geostrategic and Long Term Issues, Finance and Banking.
Includes publications such as Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor, NBER and CEPR publications, a Political Blog Aggregator, and RGE Webcasts & Conference Calls. SSU Library subscribes, but the site also requires individual login.
African American National Biography, a new 8 volume set, presents history through a mosaic of the lives of 4,100 individuals, some known throughout the world and others all but forgotten, illuminating the abiding influence of African Americans on the life of this nation through the immediacy of personal experience.
Includes not only great and famous African Americans, but a selection that will be representative of the scope of African American experience.
Benezit dictionary of artists is the premier reference work for the art world. It is the standard biographical listing of artists, outdoing similar resources in both size and scope. First published in 1911, this massive print reference work has grown to a 14-volume set published in 2006 in English for the very first time.
Nature Online Nature is a weekly international journal featuring peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its "originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions." Access to the online version also includes podcasts, video content, advance publications and more....
The University Library and the Department of Political Science held a Post Primary Forum for the kick off of the 2008 It Matters! series.
Moderated by Catherine Nelson, Professor Political Science and Andy Merrifield, Professor Political Science and Pete Golis, Press Democrat. The forum was held on Wednesday February 6, 2008 at 2:00pm in Schulz 3001.
Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life. The new Scholar’s Edition includes 75,000 additional pages of previously inaccessible data and statistics from the publications of local and state commissions on women since 1963.
Sage eReference includes 46 online multi-volume reference works such as American Masculinities, Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Encyclopedia of Social Theory.
Digital Sanborn Maps is a unique online collection of the fire insurance maps produced by the Sanborn Map Company for California cities for over 100 years, which repeatedly mapped towns and cities as they changed. The maps chronicle important changes in California cities in great detail and provide a fascinating account of urban life from 1867 through 1930s
Sport Discus FT is a comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for 415 journals, most with no embargo.
The Criterion Collection gathers the greatest classic and contemporary films from around the world and publishes them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. The over 360 titles are excellent for film studies, modern language studies, history, socio-political studies, or just a good evening of entertainment
Access Science Online is the electronic version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, with research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, animations images and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more
The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 is an incomparably rich, yet largely untapped collection of online primary source materials detailing all aspects of American history.
BioOne includes over 80 full-text peer-reviewed bioscience journals, primarily in the areas of ecology, botany and zoology.
Cell phones--love 'em or hate 'em. If you're the one talking they're great! But if you have to listen to the intimate details of other folks conversations when you're trying to study, they can be a real drag. In response to lots of complaints about cell phone usage, we need to ask for your assistance.
No cell phone conversations on the third floor of the library or in Reference or Multimedia. If you need to take or make a call, please move to the lobby area on the 2d floor, to the 1st floor, or outside.
Thanks for helping us respond to the outcry!
America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts will have the familiar Ebsco interface as of Monday, October 8. Same content, easier searching. Cool features include being able to search easily by historical period (which is also displayed in the results) as well as being able to search both databases at once (AHL for the US and Canada, HA for the rest of the world). Links to full-text articles and easy save/email/print features are also included.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains facsimiles of 80% of all items produced by a printing press (such as books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ballads) in England or the English colonies or printed in English anywhere else in the world before 1700; Spanning the years of the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration, EEBO provides a first-hand historical look at an era defined by notable changes, including the rise of the mercantile class and the first English settlements in North America.
The African Writers Series is an electronic edition of the highly acclaimed Heinemann print series, which began publication in 1962. Included are the full-text of 359 titles key texts of modern African writing, from Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Dambudzo Marechera, Nadine Gordimer and Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
We now have Science online! In order to access one of the world’s leading journals publishing original scientific research, make sure to log-in via the library’s catalog.
We're updating our site to allow us more room to play with new approaches and tools. It's a work in progress, so thanks for your patience as we figure out the details.
