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Finding Books, videos, magazines and journals
XPLORE (Xavier's Online Catalog) shows what
books, videos, and journals, are available at Xavier. To see if Xavier has a journal,
do a title search and enter the name of the journal.
OhioLINK is a combined online
catalog for all public and many private colleges and universities in Ohio.
(You can request books directly using your XU All-Card.) It takes 3-5 days to
get a book through this service. For instructions for ordering OhioLINK books
click here.
Selected databases. Use to find articles on a topic or by an author.
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Full-text
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Annals
of American History (all full-text)
An encyclopedia that covers the arts, business,
democracy, discrimination, diversity, education,
expansion, family, government, imperialism, labor,
law, leisure, peace, religion,and war. Includes
speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems,
images and multimedia. Produced and interface
by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Electronic
Journal Center (about 1995 - present; all
full-text; more info)
Collection of about 4,000 journals published by
Academic Press, American Chemical Society, American
Institute of Physics, American Physical Society,
Blackwell, Elsevier, Institute of Physics, Kluwer,
MCB University Press, MUSE, Royal Society of Chemistry,
Springer-Verlag, Thieme and Wiley. Updates dependent
upon publisher. User interface by OhioLINK.
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 (Electronic Journal Locator & more!)
Contains the electronic, full-text journals in
most of the library's research databases and full-text
journal collections. Search this resource by journal
keyword or title.
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Ethnic
NewsWatch (1960 - 1989; all full-text)
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of
the newspapers, magazines and journals of the
ethnic, minority and native press. This collection
includes more than 600,000 English and Spanish
articles from 200 publications, providing a broad
diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. Updated
monthly.
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JSTOR
Searchable online archive of the back issues of
scholarly journals
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netLibrary
Provides access to about 15,000 electronic books
(e-books) on many different topics. Search by
author, title, subject, and keyword. The full-text
of these books may be browsed for 15 minutes or
checked-out and read online for 24 hours.
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New
York Times Historical Database (1970's)
Digitized backfiles of the New York Times. A work
in process, this database will eventually cover
1861-1998. Currently covers 1970's
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Selected full-text
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Academic
Search Premier (about 1984 - present; much
full-text; more info)
Indexes and abstracts over 4,300 journals, many
of them peer-reviewed. Full-text for over 3,400
journals. Covers nearly all academic areas of
study, including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language
and linguistics, arts & literature, medical
sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily. Produced
and interface by EBSCO Publishing. Complete title
list.
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America:
History and Life (1964 - present; some full-text;
more info)
Indexes and abstracts about 2,000 periodicals.
Covers the history of the United States and Canada.
Updated quarterly. Produced by ABC-CLIO. Interface
by Dataware.
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American
Periodicals Series (1740-1900; all full-text)
Covers the birth of American periodical journalism
from 1740 to 1800; the era of growth and change
from 1800 to 1850; and the antebellum slavery
debate, Civil War and Reconstruction from 1850
to 1900. Includes 1,100 professional journals
including Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine,
Independent Reflector, Medical Repository, Liberator,
North American Review, Harper's Bazar, Vanity
Fair, and Ladies Home Journal. Produced by UMI.
Interface by ProQuest.
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Chicano
Database (1960's - present)
Indexes over 129 periodicals. Covers Mexican-American
topics, including Chicanos, Latinos, Puerto Ricans,
Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
Includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database,
covering psychological, sociological, and educational
literature. Selective coverage from early 1900's
- present. Updated quarterly. Produced by Chicano
Studies Collection and Ethnic Studies Library,
University of California at Berkeley. Interface
by Eureka.
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CIAO
(1991 - present; some full-text)
Columbia International Affairs Online indexes
books, journals, working papers, occasional papers,
and conference proceedings. Covers theory and
research in international affairs. Includes policy
briefs, economic indicators, research projects,
links to Internet resources, schedule of events,
maps, and country data. Updated monthly. Selected
materials updated weekly. Produced and interface
by Columbia University Press.
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Foreign
Language Database
A growing collection of foreign language videos
in which native speakers elaborate on a wide variety
of topics about their culture, family, daily life,
and more. Each video accompanied by a description
of its contents, the country of the speaker, and
additional grammar and vocabulary notes. Videos
in QuickTime format. Produced by ViewPoints Project.
Interface by the Digital Media Center.
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FRANCIS
(1984 - present)
Covers international humanities, social sciences,
art, literature and religion. Updated monthly.
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Handbook
of Latin American Studies (1990 - present)
Offers scholarly evaluations of books and book
chapters and articles from 1,350 social science
and 550 humanities journals published in Latin
American studies. Updated annually.
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Hispanic
American Periodicals Index (HAPI) (1970 -
present)
Indexes 400 international social science and humanities
journals. Contains bibliographic citations to
articles, book reviews, documents, original literary
works, and other materials. Covers Central and
South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the
United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics
in the United States. Includes analyses of current
political, economic, and social issues and Latin
American arts and letters. Produced by the UCLA
Latin American Center.
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Historical
Abstracts (1955 - present; some full-text;
more info)
Indexes and abstracts over 2,000 international
historical journals. Also includes selected journals
in the social sciences and humanities. Covers
history from 1450 to the present, but excludes
US and Canadian history. Updated 3 times per year.
Produced by ABC-CLIO. Interface by Dataware.
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History
Resource Center
Provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical
(primary) documents, more than 30,000 reference
articles, and over 65 full-text journals covering
themes, events, individuals, and periods in US
history from pre-colonial times to the present.
Includes access to citations for over 180 additional
history journals.
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InfoTrac
OneFile (1980 - present)
Formerly InfoTrac Expanded Academic (ASAP). Covers
news and periodicals articles on a wide range
of topics: business, computers, current events,
economics, education, environmental issues, health
care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature, art,
politics, science, social science, sports, technology,
and many general interest topics. Millions of
full-text articles, many with images.
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LexisNexis
Academic
Web version of the LexisNexis database with full-text
documents covering a wide variety of subjects
including: State and Federal Law, Government,
International Affairs, Politics and Current Events
as well as Business and Medicine.
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PAIS
International (1972 - present)
The Public Affairs Information Service covers
the literature of public affairs. Provides coverage
of publications from international agencies and
foreign governments.
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Regional
Business News (last 30 days; much full-text;
more info)
Contains newswire information from all over the
world. Includes A&G Information, Africa News
Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International,
South American Business, M2 Communications, PR
Newswire, Business Newswire, Canadian Corporate
News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business
Information Highlights. Indexes over 65 publications;
full-text for over 50. Covers business, political,
economic and other diverse, international news
events. Updated daily. Produced and interface
by EBSCO Publishing. Complete title list.
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SIRS
Researcher
Contains full-text articles on social, scientific,
health, historic, economic, business, political
and global issues.
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Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts (1975 - present)
Provides citations, abstracts, some full-text,
and indexing of the international serials literature
in political science and its complementary fields,
including international relations, law, and public
administration / policy. The WPSA database was
formed in 2001 by the merger of Political Science
Abstracts, published by IFI/Plenum, 1975-2000,
and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000.
Selected Web sites
Off-Campus Access Information
Articles not available at the Xavier Library can be ordered through
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Loan. Fill out an article
request form for each article that you want, filling
in all the information. Online
request forms are available from the
Library's home page or print forms are available
at the Reference Desk. Remember it can take 1-2
weeks to get an article through this service.
Books that Xavier doesn't own can be ordered through OhioLINK using
your all-card. This takes 3-5 days. Book not available from OhioLINK may
be ordered from Interlibrary Loan and may take 1-2 weeks.
Library Locations - use for answers to
many of your questions and where materials are located in the library.
xu.tutor five tutorials
that will help you improve your searching for information
and help you avoid plagiarism.
Library Liaison Anne Davies 513 745-4803davies@xavier.edu
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