Databases
To access the electronic databases you can click on the hypertext link, or from the library homepage select Articles | Research Guides. The hypertext link provided will take you to the A-Z List and you will have to select your database from there.
The following list of databases represents only some of the resources available in a discipline. The are sources for journal and newspaper articles. Click here for a more complete listing. For review sources please see GSLIS Review Sources. For additional help in selecting or using these resources please ask a reference librarian.
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Full text, indexes and abstracts are
provided for 3,237 journals in the collection. This database
offers information in nearly every area of academic study including:
social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences,
engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and
more. Coverage dates vary.
Biography Reference Bank
Contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. It contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers throughout history. Also included are thousands of biographies from other respected publishers, including Macmillan UK, Greenwood, Houghton Mifflin, Oxford University Press and Harvard University Press. More than 5,000 new biographies from American National Biography licensed from Oxford University Press have just been added. In addition to the full text biographies, Biography Reference Bank contains millions of magazine citations (many of which contain full-text) from all of the Wilson Indexing Databases, including all citations from Biography Index Database after 1984, as well as thousands of links to book review citations, including review excerpts and full text reviews from Book Review Digest Plus.
Encyclopaedia Britannica / Britannica Online
Complete text from printed version & links to web sites
First Monday
First Monday is a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 499 papers in 92 issues; these papers were written by 605 different authors. 1996- present.
FirstSearch
A wide variety of databases indexing and providing full text on a number of subjects and disciplines.
Humanities Full Text
The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more. 1995-present
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Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
News, business, medical and legal information, with full text and abstracts. Includes foreign news sources, national and regional newspapers, (not the Chicago Tribune) regional U.S. news services, radio and television transcripts, federal and state case law, medical, legislative and industry news, annual reports from SEC and many other sources. Newspapers are updated several times daily, and wire services hourly. Coverage dates vary.
Also see Reference:
o Biographical Information - Politicians, business executives, and more
o Country Profiles - concise facts and statistics about countries
o Polls & Surveys - from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
o Quotations - over 10,000 quotes from the famous and not-so-famous
o State Profiles - concise facts and statistics about each state
Library and Information Science Journals from Emerald Publishing
Provides full text articles and search interfaces to the journals from Emerald Publishing inlcuding: Collection Building, Electronic Resources Review, and Online Information Review. Coverage dates vary.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
Indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Full-text coverage begins in 1994.
Literature Resource Center
Full text information about authors and literature. Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Dates Vary.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond. The biographies—of artists, scientists, writers, industrialists, performers, explorers, criminals, and eccentrics as well as politicians, church leaders, and soldiers, mariners, doctors, and lawyers—are written by experts and provide up-to-date scholarship but are also concise and readable. There are over 50,000 biographical articles in the Oxford DNB, and 9,294 cross-reference entries. There are no entries for living persons. 4 century BCE – present
Oxford English Dictionary
A historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. Dates Vary.
Periodical Abstracts
Multidisciplinary subject areas and topics. 1987-present.
Readers' Guide Full Text
A database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals. 1994-present.
Ulrichsweb
Web version of of Ulrich's Periodical Directory. This bibliographic database provides
detailed information on serials published throughout the world.
Union List of Periodicals
Provides access to a compilation of the union lists provided by OCLC member libraries. These lists help you determine which libraries hold specific journal issues and other items. Available information includes: lists of titles, locations of libraries holding those titles, and specific information on coverage by each library. Coverage dates vary.
WilsonSelectPlus
WilsonSelectPlus is a collection of over 750,000 full-text articles drawn from over 1,600 magazines and journals. 1994 to the present.
World Almanac
Reference sources includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics.
Catalog Instructions
If you have any trouble accessing any of the resources mentioned on this site, please ask for help at the Reference or Circulation Desks.
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In order to access the online catalog go to the Library homepage
http://domweb.dom.edu/library/crown/
and select Books | Online Catalogs.
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The direct link to the Dominican Library Online Catalog is
http://domweb.dom.edu/library/Crown/Books/books.htm.
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If you cannot locate the item you need at Dominican try searching
all 65 ILLINET Libraries. http://library.ilcso.illinois.edu/ilcso/cgi-bin/welcome.
You can have many materials sent to Dominican from any of
the 65 libraries. Materials such as videos and reserve items
may not be requested.
Books, if they have been written on your topic, will give it an extensive treatment and may provide references for further reading. To find books written on your topic, use references from encyclopedia articles and look up the titles in the ILLINET Catalog.
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Search tips:
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Use Quick Search if you know the name of a specific book.
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Select Start of Title Search from the search by box. Type
in your title. (N.B. You must know the first word of the
title to use Quick Search. If you know some words but not
the first word use the Guided Search option)
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Leave out a, an, the if it is the first word of the title.
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Look for the library call number and status
Search for a topic:
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Search tips:
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Using the Any word Anywhere in Quick Search, type in likely
key words in the search box. Put quotes around phrases. Use
? to truncate. Example: art? and "20th century".
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Click on any titles that look relevant. Note library location
and call number but also note subject headings to use in
a second search for better results. Example: Art, Modern
-- 20th century. Another example: the subject heading
for bullfighting is bullfights.
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For books about an author (biography or criticism and interpretation),
use the Basic search mode. Type the author's name (Example:
morrison, toni) and change the drop down box to Subject
Browse. Click on Search. Then click on the subject heading
that has the extension "Biography" or
the extension "Criticism and Interpretation"
to get to the list of books about your author.
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To limit these results to only works in English, click on
the limit results button just above the date of the first
entry. Now select English from the list of languages and
click the Set More Limits button at the bottom of the page.
Scroll through the results for good records. Click on the
title of a good record to get the call number.
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Select the item(s) you want Click “Request” Enter your Student
ID number and last name Select to have your materials sent
to Dominican University
Internet Sites
American
Library Association
Association
of College & Research Libraries
Internet Library for Librarians
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Reference Reviews (Gale Group)