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Sage eReference is a large, searchable collection of encyclopedias covering many subjects including:

American masculinities, activism and social justice, African American society, American urban history, anthropology, applied developmental science, behavior modification and cognitive behavior therapy, black studies, business ethics and society, cancer and society, career development, children adolescents and the media, community, crime and punishment, death and dying, disability, distributed learning, educational leadership and administration, educational psychology, environment and society, epidemiology, evaluation, geographic information systems, governance, health and aging, health care management, health and behavior, homelessness, human development, human geography, immigration and migration in the American west, industrial and organizational psychology, organizational studies, juvenile justice, law and society, law enforcement, leadership, 21st century management, measurement and statistics, multicultural psychology, murder and violent crime, new media, political communication, politics the left and the right, prisions and correctional facilities, psychological assessment, psychology and the law, 21st century psychology, public relations, religious and spiritual development, school psychology, social psychology, social science research methods, social theory, social welfare history in North America, 21st century sociology, terrorism, united states national security, war and American society, white-collar and corporate crime, women in the American West and World Poverty.

Search Tips:

• The SAGE eReference site provides two ways to search its content - the Quick Search box and the Advanced Search option. The Quick Search box is at the top right of every page of the site. You can access the Advanced Search using the tab which is also on every page of the site.
• The Browse feature allows you to view all of the content of an Encyclopedia using the Reader’s Guide, an alphabetized list of all Entries, or the book’s Index.
• It is possible to sort your search results by relevance (the default option), by alphabetical order or by reverse alphabetical order. You may select the option you prefer by using the dropdown box under Display Options labeled sort results by.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter S and select Sage eReference.

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Produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), Inspec from ISI Web of Knowledge is the leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's scientific and technical literature in the following fields: physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers, computing, information technology, manufacturing, and production engineering.

With Inspec you can uncover research information in specialized areas such as materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering, and biophysics. Inspec now includes the entire collection of Science Abstracts Journals (back to volume one) dating from 1898 to 1968.

The Science Abstracts Journals were the precursor to the Inspec database. The subject coverage is:

• All aspects of physics (originally published as Physics Abstracts).
  
• Electrical and electronic engineering (introduced as a separate journal in 1903, and originally published as Electrical and Electronic Abstracts).
  
• Computing and control engineering (introduced as a separate journal in 1966, and published initially as Control Abstracts, later renamed to Computer and Control Abstracts).

Search Tips:

• The default search limits are: alllanguages, all document types and all treatment types. Selected limits stay in effect until you clear them by clicking the Clear button.

• The tiny magnifying glass symbol at the end of a search box signifies a browseable field. By clicking on this symbol you will be able do search a list of all items, such as author’s name in the database. This is particularly useful if you don’t know how an author’s name is listed. Some use their entire name, some use first initials only. Click on the word add by the author’s names you want to include in your search.

• Wildcards can be used in all search fields that allow words and phrases. They can be used in a search query to represent unknown characters.
  1. The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.
  2. The question mark (?) represents any single character.
  3. The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character (useful when searching for expressions).
  
  Wildcards may be used inside or at the end of search terms -- but not at the beginning. For example, sul*ur is allowed, but *ploid is not. When you search by Topic or Title, you must use at least three characters before the asterisk, question mark, or dollar sign or your search will generate an error. When you search by any other field (except the Topic and Title fields), you must use at least one character before the asterisk, question mark, or dollar sign or your search will generate an error.
  You cannot use wildcards after special characters (/ @ #) and punctuation (. , : ; !). You cannot use wildcards in a publication year search. For example, 2007 is OK but 200* is not.
  

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The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. They are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the past two centuries, and are fundamental to an understanding of current legislation, policy making and the political environment. HCPP online, with searchable full text, and detailed subject indexing, makes it possible to fully exploit the enormous potential of this resource for the first time.

The collection includes the nineteenth century House of Commons Sessional Papers. They include 79,527 papers, covering 4.2 million pages. The accompanying 5 volume index, Peter Cockton's 'Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900', was the first thematic listing of the complete set of parliamentary papers.

HCPP online brings these two resources together for the 19th century, unlocking 100 years of policy making, investigation, correspondence and reporting for researchers of all kinds. Also included is the twentieth century (104,902 papers, 5.2 million pages). Coverage goes right up to the latest parliamentary session.

HCPP now incorporates The Eighteenth Century Parliamentary Papers Collection from BOPCRIS. This collection features publications published officially by the House of Commons or the House of Lords from 1688 to 1834, including sessional papers and other material such as Journals and Private Acts. The material was brought together and digitized from the major collections of parliamentary papers at the University of Southampton, the British Library, and the University of Cambridge.

Search tips:

• To begin your search click on the word search in the bar near the top of the page. To list all records containing a particular word: Enter the words you wish to search for in the Keyword box and click the Search button. Note: Use the predefined operators such as and and or if you wish to perform a search for multiple keywords which are not usually found next to each other in the same phrase.

• If you want to search for a particular phrase, place quotation marks around all the words that make up the phrase. For example, "cotton weaving".

• HCPP allows you to use the * (asterisk) wildcard character to find variations on a word ending.
  e.g. work* finds work, works, working, worker, workman, workmen

• All searches are case-insensitive, so you don't have to know whether a word should be capitalized or not. For example, there is no difference between london, London or LonDon.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter H and select House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.

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In Philadelphia in 1830 Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) commenced the publication of Godey`s Lady`s Book, designed specifically to attract the growing audience of American women.
The magazine was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America.

In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music, written essentially for the piano forte.

Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine containing extensive book reviews and works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and many other celebrated 19th century authors who regularly furnished the magazine with essays, poetry and short stories. The Lady`s Book was also a vast reservoir of handsome illustrations which included hand-colored fashion plates, mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts and, ultimately, chromolithographs.

Today it is considered to be among the most important resources of 19th century American life and culture.

Search tips:

• Godey’s Lady’s Book is in a collection with several other publications. To search only Godey’s select it from the drop down box in the middle of the search page. It is also possible to browse whole issues by clicking on Browse the Archives. Then click on the word issues, by the title Godey’s Lady’s Book and select the issue you wish to browse.

• Wildcards/Truncation/Stemming - Use the ? and * to search for single and multiple letters at the end or in the middle of a search term. Search terms must have at least 3 characters with the wildcards.
  Single letter – use the ?
  Wom?n finds woman or women
  Te?t finds test or text
  Multiple letters – use the * at the end or middle of a word
  Geo* finds Geo., George, and other endings
  Chamber* finds chamber, chamberer, chambered, chambering, chambers
  Colo*r finds color, colour

• Boosting a Search Term – use to elevate the relevance, or importance, of search words. Use with two or more search terms or phrases. To boost a term, use the ^ symbol with a boost factor. Any positive number may be used as the boost factor.
  Examples
  • “underground railroad” and death^5
  • indian and apache^3
  

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The Ed/ITLib Digital Library for Education and Information Technology is a valuable online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning. This database is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Within the database are user-created collections of papers, generally grouped together by a theme or topic called binders. You can create your own binder, or browse through binders created by other Digital Library users.

Search tips:

• Phrase Searching: Search for phrases by enclosing search terms in quotation marks. Words enclosed in double quotes ("like this") will appear together in all results exactly as you have entered them. For example “distance learning” will retrieve all articles where the word distance appears immediately before the word learning.

• Case sensitive searching: This can be useful for searching acronyms and names. A search for Bell will not find bell. A search for USE will not find use.

• Wildcards: The * symbol can be used at the end of any word stem to represent any ending. For example teach* will retrieve teacher, teaching and teach. The ? can be used within a word to represent a character. For example vir??al will retrieve words beginning with vir and ending with al with any two characters between.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter E and select EdITLib Digital Library for Information Technology and Education

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The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field as well as bibliographic records and audio materials. It is an OpenURL-enabled database of sources relevant to researchers, scholars, and students interested in fields related to human communication studies (mass communication, human interaction, rhetoric, health communication, communication and new media, journalism, communication history, etc.)

ComAbstracts is expanded and updated throughout the year.

Search tips:

• Wildcard searches. The asterisk (*) is a wildcard. Attach an asterisk to a search term and it matches any text that follows. For example: searching for "rhet*" matches "rhetorical", "rhetoric", "rhetoric of science", etc.
  
• Conflation. Use the squiggle or tilde (~) character to find forms of a word. This is different than in wildcard searches. For example, searching for "post~" will find "post", "posted", "posts", "posting" but not "post-haste", "post mortem", or "postulate". These latter three terms would be matched with a wildcard search for "post*" but not with a conflation search for "post~". Beware, however, that there are limits to the capabilities of conflation searches. They cannot find all grammatical forms. For example, searching for "hold~", will match "holding" and "holds" but will not match "held".
  
• Word proximity. Placing a number between forward slashes indicates that the search terms must be located within so many words of each other. For example, "organizational /10/ network" would return only those items that contain the word "organizational" within ten words of the word "network".
  
• Items located in a search result can be saved in a temporary user folder. This feature permits collection of items across searches for different terms. The collection saved in the folder can be downloaded in plain text or in RIS format for direct incorporation into reference software such as Refworks. Items from the folder can also be emailed to a recipient address. Click on add items to folder. This folder will disappear after sixty minutes of inactivity.

Where is it:

Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter C and select ComAbstracts.

Quick Link:
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CINAHL provides indexing for over 2,931 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. It offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.

Examples of titles offered in CINAHL include: AANA Journal, California Hospitals, Gastroenterology Nursing, Maternal and Child Health Journal, Paediatric Nursing, Parents, etc. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,200 journals are also included.

Full text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

Search tips:

• The CINAHL Subject Headings authority file is a controlled vocabulary thesaurus that assists in more effectively searching the CINAHL database. Each bibliographic reference in the database is associated with a set of subject terms that are assigned to describe the content of an article. There are more than 10,600 main subject headings as well as thousands of cross-references that assist in finding the most appropriate subject heading. CINAHL subject heading terms are arranged in a hierarchy, or "tree structure", that permits searching at various levels of detail from the most general level to more narrow levels to find the most precise terms. The headings can be exploded to retrieve all references indexed to that term as well as all references indexed to any narrower term(s). Searches can also be limited with specific qualifiers (subheadings) to improve the precision of the search, and limited to major subject headings indicate the main focus of an article. To search these subject headings click on the words CINAHL Headings in the green bar near the top of the page.

• The wildcard is represented by a question mark ?. To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with a ?. EBSCOhost finds all citations of that word with the ? replaced by a letter. For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next. Truncation is represented by an asterisk (*). To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an *. EBSCOhost finds all forms of that word. For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing.

• To export items to the RefWorks software, click on add to folder by the items you want to include. When you are ready to export them to RefWorks, click on the word folder at the top of the page. Then click on the word export and select direct export to RefWorks. Finally, click on the word save. This will open a window to allow you to log in to your RefWorks account and complete the export.

Quick Link: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=cin20

BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.

All research articles in BioMed Central's journals receive rapid and thorough peer review. The detailed peer-review policy of each journal is the responsibility of the journal editor(s) concerned. Many journals operate traditional anonymous peer review. Others, including the medical BMC-series titles, operate 'open peer review', in which reviewers are asked to sign their reviews. For these titles, the pre-publication history of each paper (including submitted versions, reviewers' reports and authors' responses) is linked to from the published article. BioMed Central's portfolio of 186 journals includes general titles such as Journal of Biology alongside specialist journals (e.g. BMC Bioinformatics, Malaria Journal) that focus on particular disciplines.

All the research published by BioMed Central's journals is open access, but BioMed Central also provides access to various additional products and services that require a subscription. For example, certain BioMed Central journals such as Genome Biology publish commissioned review content available only to subscribers. Other subscription-only products include Faculty of 1000, a literature evaluation service that covers both biology and medicine. BioMed Central also operates Open Repository, a hosted digital repository solution for institutions.

Search tips:

• Click on the advanced search tab located near the top of the page. Type your search terms in the four empty boxes, one or more per box. With the menus at the left of each box you can restrict to a specific field: author, title etc. The menus at the right determine what happens if the box contains more than one word. All words: will return articles that contain all words, anywhere in the requested field. Any word: will return articles that contain at least one of the words in the requested field. Exact phrase: will return articles where the words appear as a continuous phrase in the requested field.
• For author searches, use the format smith_cp. Author names are automatically expanded to include all combinations of initials, e.g. smith_c returns Smith C, Smith CA etc. You can turn this off by using exact phrase (instead of all words/any word)
• A question mark stands for any single character. An asterisk stands for any number of characters. These wildcards can be used at the end of a search term, and also at the beginning or in the middle of a word. The search may be slower in these cases. Examples: tumo* retrieves tumor, tumour, tumors, tumours, tumorigenisis, tumoricidal etc. nf* retrieves NF-κB, NFκB, NF-kB, NFkappaB, NF1 etc. j*son retrieves Johnson, Jonson, Janson, Jenson, Jackson, Johanson etc. j?nson retrieves Jonson, Janson, Jenson etc., but not Johnson.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter B and select BioMed Central.

Quick Link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/

Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included.

Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.

Subjects covered include; advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-Western art, painting, photography, Pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video.

Search tips:

• Basic Search Searching automatically includes the All-Smart Search (a rules-based search). Simply enter terms, or type in a more structured Boolean search. To search for specific terms, using the All-Smart Search:
  1. Select one or more databases from the selection area. Click Close Database Selection Area or Open Database Selection Area, as appropriate.
  2. Enter a word or phrase.
  3. Mark or unmark the full text search option: Also search within the full text of the articles, for extra results. (Choice available only for appropriate databases.)
  4. Click Start.

• When using the All-Smart Search query do not use truncation symbols or other special characters. The Wilson All-Smart Search query will automatically search those options. Simply type the word or phrase that you are interested in and click Start.
  Truncation Symbol: * (asterisk)
  Wildcards: ? (question mark)
  Wildcard Operator:
  Relational Operators: retrieves a term/number in a context/sequence
  Stemming: term as root retrieves word variations
  Truncation Symbol
  The truncation symbol (*) serves as a substitute for zero or a string of characters.
  For example the search:
  cat* retrieves catalyst, catatonic, as well as category
  m*cdonald retrieves both mcdonald and macdonald.

• Wildcards
  The wildcard symbol (?) serves as a substitute for a single alphanumeric character. It is particularly useful when you are unsure of spelling.
  For example, the search einst??n retrieves the correctly spelled einstein (albert einstein).
  When searching for SIC codes, which are 4 digits, use the wildcard symbol (?) to search ranges.
  For example, 12?? sic retrieves all available codes between 1200 and 1300.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter A and select Art Full Text.

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The creation of the King James or Authorized Version of the Bible (1611) was initiated by the newly crowned James I and carried out by scholars and clergymen in Oxford and Cambridge. The intention was to provide a single English language Bible founded on Greek and Hebrew originals which would be used throughout the whole Church. The King James or Authorized Version of the Bible became the standard edition of the Bible for nearly three centuries. It is arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies.
The text of the ‘He’ version contained here, comprises the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. All introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables are included and fully searchable.

Search tips:

• Wherever possible King James Bible features the first authorized edition of any given literary work and preserves the spelling and punctuation of the copy text. Users should be aware when searching that the spelling of some words has changed and that a modern-spelling search term will not in itself be adequate to retrieve all the relevant results from historical texts. For instance, entering the search term virtue will not retrieve occurrences of vertue; sensibility will not match with sensibilitie or sensibillity, and honor will not pick up honour.
  King James Bible provides 2 ways to search for variant spellings:
  Using the ? or *characters, referred to as a wildcards. For example, v?rtue, hono?r or sensibil?it*.
  Alternatively, you can now use the new Variant spellings check box. If you enter a modern English word in the Keyword(s) in Work box and check the Variant spellings box, you will automatically retrieve all instances of your search term and its early modern variant forms in King James Bible. For example, if the box for Variant spellings is checked and you type the word soldier in the Keyword(s) field, when you submit your search you will retrieve all occurrences of the word soldier and its early modern variants such as soldiour, souldiour, souldyer, and sovldiovr.

• To list all texts containing a particular word: Enter the word in the Keyword(s) box and click the Search button. The List of Results page will be displayed, listing all the works containing your chosen word. To list all books containing a particular word: Enter the word in the book box and click the Search button. The List of Results page will be displayed, listing all the works with a title containing your chosen word.

• You can also use the drop down options to limit the search criteria to any of the following:
  Old and New Testaments
  Apocrypha
  Old
  New
  Biblical Text, Notes and Apparatus
  Biblical Text Only
  Notes and Apparatus Only
  

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