Welcome to the High Library
Q. Can you look up “google” on wikipedia?
A. You can. But why not get vetted facts and find current
articles on your topic in the library databases?
New for Spring 09:
AccessScience, the
library’s newest electronic reference source, offers more than 8,500 reliable,
comprehensive articles in all areas of science and engineering. Based on the print McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science
and Technology, AccessScience offers over 15,000 high-quality, downloadable images
and illustrations. Find articles on fuel cells, stem cells, and cell phones,
robotics, optics, and forensics. Easily cite what you find with “How to cite
this article” at the end of each entry.
Check out the Criminal Justice Collection for references to 4.3 million articles from 700 journals. Delve into articles
on law enforcement, forensic science or social issues such as homelessness.
Find clinical reports, interviews and case notes. CJC includes a “Source
Citation” for each article to make assembling your list of references a snap.
This spring only, we’re happy to announce a special pilot project with access to 19th-century
British pamphlet collections through JSTOR. More than 20,000 pamphlets have
been added to the JSTOR archive, including selections from the London School of
Economics and Political Science, the Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, and the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection. Pamphlets were an important means
of public debate in the 19th century, covering
key political, social, technological, and environmental issues. Today they are
a valuable primary source relevant to a wide range of disciplines. Find pamphlets
by and about: Charles Babbage, W.E. Gladstone, Florence Nightingale, Charles
Bradlaugh, Joseph Hume, Thomas Paine, John Bright, John Stuart Mill, and Robert
Peel. Sneak a peek at advertisements, diagrams, maps, petitions, annotations,
engravings, portraits, cartoons, and letters. Go to JSTOR ,
then click on Advanced Search and use the check-box for pamphlets.
