NEW RESOURCE: FIlms on Demand, Master Academic Collection

We now have access to the Films on Demand, Master Academic Collection.  Films on Demand give us access to high-quality digital programs and video clips. Available collections include the Humanities and Social Sciences Collection, Science Collection, Business and Economics Collection, and Health Collection.  Options for embedding, creating playlists, and mobile device viewing are also available.  To start using the collection, visit our A-Z Databases & Resources list. 

NEW RESOURCE: BrowZine!

We now have access to BrowZine! BrowZine is a mobile app that allows you to browse and read the Libraries' online journal content.  Made speficially for tablets, the app is available for download for iPads, Android tablets, and the Kindle Fire (Windows tablets coming soon).

• Easily read and follow your favorite scholarly journals 
• Stay current in your field of study 
• Easily find scholarly journals and save articles to your tablet, Dropbox, Refworks, and other services 
• Create your personal bookshelf of favorite scholarly journals 

To get started, download BrowZine: http://thirdiron.com/download/
Once the app is downloaded, select FIU as your institution and just login using your Library Account information.  Start reading, and enjoy!  More information on BrowZine and other mobile research tools available here: FIU Libraries Mobile Apps & Resources

NEW RESOURCE: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nursing & Health Professions Premier Collection

We now have access to the Journals@Ovid LWW Nursing & Health Professions Premier Collection.  This collection includes access to 70 nursing journals used by nurses, nursing students and health professionals around the world on a daily basis.  This package of titles will help to meet the needs of nursing professionals, students, researchers and other professionals.  To access the collection and view titles access the collection from the Libraries' eJournal Portal: http://df9uh2wc8b.search.serialssolutions.com/ 
...just scroll down and look for "Journals@Ovid, Nursing & Health Professions Premier Collection"

TRIAL: Films on Demand

We now have trial access to several collections of Films on Demand content.
These collections include the Master Academic Collection, Career & Technical Education Collection, Nursing Bideo Collection, and the Archival Films & Newsreels Collection.

Films Media Group is the leading source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content. Films Media Group serves the education community through its four brands: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

This trial expires on 12/27/2013, and can be accessed at.http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=24982

NEW: eBook Collection, ACLS Humanities eBooks

We now have access to the ACLS Humanities eBook collection (HEB).  These eBooks cover Area and Historical Studies in the following disciplines/subjects: African, American, Asian, Australasian/Oceanian, Byzantine, Canadian, Caribbean, Central European, Comparative/World, Eastern European/Russian, Economic, Environmental, European, Jewish Studies, Latin American, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Middle East, Native Peoples of the Americas, Science/Technology, Women’s Studies. HEB also encompasses the fields of Archaeology, Art and Architectural History, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Studies, Film and Media Studies, Folklore, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Criticism, Musicology, Performance Studies (theater, music, dance), Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology.
There are approximately 4,000 books in the collection; a list of titles available at: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/the-collection/default.html

To access these eBooks, please visit the libraries' Research Pages.  

Your Tech Fee $$ at Work: Access to Wiley Journal Backfiles

We now have access to 1,291 Wiley Online Library Journal Backfiles, funded by the 2013 Student Technology Fee.  Access these titles from the Library's website via our eJournals Portal: http://df9uh2wc8b.search.serialssolutions.com/
Subject areas covered include: chemistry, computer science, engineering, earth and environmental science, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, materials science, math and statistics, physics, and social sciences.

NEW RESOURCES: Import Genius & Historical Christian Science Monitor

We now have access to 2 new resources, Import Genius: International Trade Database and the Historical Christian Science Monitor. 

• Import Genius: International Trade Database provides insights into the shipping activities of importers and exporters around the world.
• Christian Science Monitor, Historical (1908-1999) Offers historical local, regional, and national news. Provides access to online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

To access these resource visit our A-Z Databases & Resources listings.  

First Issue of the FIU Libraries' Digital Initiative Newsletter Now Available

The first issue of Digital Initiatives, the newsletter of FIU Libraries’ Digital Collections and Institutional Repository (IR) is now available.  This biannual newsletter will serve as a resource for FIU students and faculty to keep up-­‐to-­‐date with the latest projects, collections, and services available from the FIU Digital Collections Center.   

Access issue no. 1 here. 

Gallery at Green Library: May Exhibit

Now on view at the Gallery at Green Library, "Art as Process" from the Children's Creative Learning Center.  

The Children’s Creative Learning Center at FIU’s Art Exhibit titled “Art as Process” was designed to reflect the nature of the children’s experiences in Art as well as to highlight other areas of daily CCLC activities all of which are a process.  Because the children ranging in age from two to six are highly visual learners, whether the content area is science experimentation, gardening, life cycles, emergent literacy or math, the documentation is interpreted through visual imagery and is integrated through the children’s sensory system.  Photographs help guide the sequence of events for the children as they will for visitors to the gallery who will also get a sense of time and place by looking at some of the historical images marking the Center’s 37th Anniversary. 

NEW RESOURCE: WiseNews

We now have access to WiseNews, "Over 600 key newspapers and magazines, Websites from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and the United States. It is updated daily."

This resource is available via our A-Z Databases & Resources listings, under Newspapers, and through Asian Studies.  

NEW RESOURCE: ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States

We now have access to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, via ProQuest.

"The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient (portal) for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web."

Access is available via our A-Z Databases & Resources pages, cross-listed under "ProQuest Statistical Abstract..." and "Statistical Abstract..." 

A helpful use guide is also provided at: http://proquest.libguides.com/content.php?pid=344620&sid=2819294
  

NEW RESOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education

 

We now have online access to current issues of the Chronicle of Higher Education. 
"Source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators ; published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more."

Access this title from CitationLinker, A-Z List, or the Catalog. 
 

NEW RESOURCE: Gale's Student Resources In Context

We now have access to Student Resources In Context, from Gale. 

"This database provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including reference articles, periodical and newspaper articles, primary sources, multimedia records (including charts, graphs, maps and tables), and video and audio content from NBC, NPR and many other respected sources."

Access this new resource from our A-Z Resources page.   

NEW DATABASE: Academic Search Complete

We now have access to Academic Search Complete from EBSCOhost!

"This database provides complete coverage with multidisciplinary, full-text academic journals.  The capacity of content within this resource fully supports scholarly research in the key areas of academic study by providing peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and much more.  Over 13,600 indexed and abstracted journals; PDF content dating back as far as 1887."

Access this new resource from our A-Z Resources page.  

NEW RESOURCE: Confidential Print : Latin America

We now have access to Confidential Print : Latin America, from Adam Matthew Digital. 

The documents of Confidential Print: Latin America cover the whole of South and Central America, plus the non-British islands of the Caribbean, from just after the final Spanish withdrawal from mainland America in the 1820s to the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. Covering revolutions, territorial changes and political movements, foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development (including the building of the Panama Canal), wars, slavery, immigration from Europe and relations with indigenous peoples, amongst other topics, the files in this title form a vital resource for any scholar of Latin American history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  The files in this collection cover all countries of mainland South and Central America, plus Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.

Documents include:

• Profiles of leading political, military, diplomatic and economic figures
• Incoming and outgoing diplomatic dispatches
• Correspondence
• Statistical charts and tables
• Descriptions of leading personalities
• Accounts of tours
• Minutes of meetings and conferences
• Texts of treaties
• Political summaries
• Economic analyses
• Annual reports and calendars of events, by country
• Maps

To access this new resource, please visit our Research Pages.  

NEW DATABASE: Short Story Index

We now have access to Short Story Index online. 

 Short Story Index is a detailed index of more than 117,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies.  It contains the fulltext for nearly 5,000 stories dating back to 1984.

Content is searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary technique and source, or by any combination of terms—making it easy for you to find only the relevant search results you need. Subject access—including theme, locale, narrative technique or device—helps narrow your search even further. 

This database is an essential resource for readers seeking short stories by author or genre, or for those researching a body of work of a literary figure.

Access it now through our Research pages!

NEW DATABASE: Communications & Mass Media Complete

We now have access to Communications & Mass Media Complete, from EBSCO.

"This resource incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline."

It can be accessed from our Research Pages (A-Z List, Journalism & Mass Com, and  others).

Green Library Gallery: "Winter in Cuba" Exhibit

"Winter in Cuba" offers a glimpse of the heyday of travel and tourism in pre-1950s Cuba.  The Elena Kurstin Collection of Cuban Memorabilia is a treasure trove of postcards, menus, brochures, magazines, and even swizzle sticks from hotels, night clubs and the haunts of many a mobster of that period.  This exhibition gives a glimpse of the Havana so popular with tourists... not only what to see in Cuba, but how to get there by air or by sea.

NEW RESOURCE: Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam Online

We now have access to Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam Online (Second Edition). 

Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition) Online sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. The resource has been added to our Research Pages. 

NEW RESOURCE: Confidential Print : Africa

We now have access to Confidential Print : Africa, from Adam Matthew Digital. 

"Issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices and produced by the British Government ;
Includes the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices such as one-page letters or telegrams, large volumes or texts of treaties ; All documents are fully text-searchable ; Spans the full era of the modern European colonisation of Africa, from the occupation of Algeria by France, the British presence on the west African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope in the south, the Berlin Conference, the high-water mark of economic exploitation of Africans in the Congo Free State, rivalries amongst European powers and the era of withdrawal that followed the Second World War ; The resource also features 300 colour maps."

To access this new resource, visit the library's research guides.