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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.

All the resources in the database are searchable separately or as a whole.

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).

The Inspec Archive - Science Abstracts contains more than 873,700 records. These records contain tables, graphs and figures from original source documents. They also include longer abstracts than the 100-200 word abstracts typical today. These vary in length from half a page to several pages, including diagrams and complex mathematical proofs, because printed copies of source documents were more difficult to obtain.

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.
  

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 I and select Inspec.

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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
  

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 G and select Godey’s Lady’s Book.

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