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: 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.  

FEATURED RESOURCE: American History in Video

From our History collection, "American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries."

To access this collection, visit our A-Z Databases & Resources list, http://libguides.fiu.edu/research

AVAST! Sept 19th Is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Visit the Information & Research Desk Thursday Sept, 19th from 9am-2pm,  on the second floor of the Green Library, speak a Pirate phrase and walk away with some "booty" swag!  We've got tshirts, library-approved water bottles, and more, available first come-first plunder!


Need some inspiration for that Pirate-ese?
Cast yer eyes upon the FREE Mango Language Pirate Course!  It contains everything you need to know to “parley” perfect Pirate in minutes!  Plus, you’ll learn:

• The appropriate way to hail your fellow gentlemen o’ fortune
• Practical Pirate lingo
• The finer points of swashbuckling
• Some Pirate history and the part it played in forming our modern democracy

If Pirate is not your thing, Mango’s online language learning system can help you learn Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, and much more!

FYI: ProQuest Resources Downtime

ProQuest databses/resources will be down for maintenance and upgrades starting 10pm Saturday night, 8/24.  During this time, all ProQuest databases will be unavailable.  This downtime is expected to last about 8 hours. 

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.  

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: 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).

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. 

NEW RESOURCE: iPoll

We now have access to iPoll from the Roper Center,

"Collection of poll data, 1935 to present, includes all US polling firms, broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. International datasets are available for immediate download."

This resource is available from the Library's Research pages- http://libguides.fiu.edu/aecontent.php?pid=305101&sid=2500747

New Archive Collection: The Greensboro Massacre, 1979

We now have access to a new Archives Unbound Collection from Gale Digital Collections.

The Greensboro Massacre, 1979: Shootout between the American Nazis & the Communist Workers Party

"This collection of FBI, local and state police, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, sheds new light on the motivations of the Communist organizers, the shootings, subsequent investigations, and efforts to heal the Greensboro community following the Greensboro, North Carolina Massacre of 1979."

NEW EXHIBIT: Artists in Residence in the Everglades

New Resource: The Homophile Movement: Papers of Donald Stewart Lucas

We now have access to a new Archives Unbound collection, The Homophile Movement: Papers of Donald Stewart Lucas.  This collection documents the activist and professional activities of Donald S. Lucas. The vast majority of the collection dates from 1953 to 1969. The Lucas collection contains an abundance of material relating to the early homosexual civil rights movement (the homophile movement) and the San Francisco manifestation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty.  The collection includes: correspondence, meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, newsletters, manuscripts, financial documents, reports, statistics, legal decisions, surveys, counseling records, funding proposals, and subject files.  to access this new archive, just visit the library's research pages.