Humanities

Eighteenth Century Journals, a portal to newspapers and periodicals, provides full-text access to rare British newspapers and periodicals from the 17th and 18th centuries. These materials have been carefully screened and selected to avoid overlap with the collections in Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early English Newspapers.

The World Bank eLibrary is a collection of the World Bank’s numerous publications, reports, working papers and other related documents. All texts are searchable by both topic and region, and available in full-text. Currently, over 4,500 documents are indexed in the database. The World Bank’s areas of focus include economic and social development, education, environmental issues, health, and finance.

http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=wbelib

Submitted by: Susan Kellett Gue

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, a full-text searchable database, is a historical survey of literary theory and criticism. It includes articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. The scope is international with an emphasis is on Western critical theory. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT - Full Text includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.

Woodruff Library is proud to announce that it is accepting entries for the 2010 Undergraduate Research Award. The Library will award up to three prizes of $500 each for undergraduate research projects making excellent use of library resources.  One prize is designated for first-year students. 

EndNote X3 offers the option to find the full-text of the references downloaded to your EndNote library. I’ve had excellent results with this feature for references downloaded from PubMed.

Before trying to find the full text you have to set your preferences in EndNote. Choose: Edit/Preferences/Find Full Text.

Check all four of the boxes on the preferences box, if they are not already checked.

Two URLs need to be added to the preferences box.

Searching for reliable information at this stage of the digital evolution is not yet a seamless process. Not everything is digitized.