| Reference
Collection Sources The following sources are available in the Reference Collection on the second floor of the library. Reference materials cannot be checked out, so the materials should always be freely available. This is a very selective list and is intended primarily to show representative sources. |
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| Dictionaries
of the English Language |
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| Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate. | PE1460 .E196 1997 | |
| Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors. | PE1628 .O865 2000 | |
| Oxford
English Dictionary. |
PE1625.O87 1989 | |
| Oxford English Reference Dictionary. | PE1625.O86 1996 | |
Dictionaries
of
Quotations |
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| African American Quotations. | PN6081.3 .A36 1998 | |
| Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. | PN6080 .C58 2001 | |
| Familiar Quotations; A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. (Bartlett's) | PN6081 .B27 1992 | |
| Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. | PN6084.H8 O94 2001 | |
| Quotable Women of the Twentieth Century. | PN6081.5 .Q64 1999 | |
| Times Book of Quotations. | PN6081 .T55 2000 | |
| Grammar |
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| Grammar Gremlins. | PE1112 .F398 1995 | |
| Grammatically
Correct: The Writer's Essential Guide to Punctuation, Spelling, Style,
Usage, and Grammar. |
PE1112 .S748 1997 | |
| Webster's New World English Grammar Handbook. | PE1112 .L62 2001 | |
| Handbooks |
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| Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual. | PN4783 .A83 1996 | |
| Chicago Manual of Style. | Z253 .U69 1993 | |
| MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. | LB2369 .G53 1995 | |
| New York Times Manual of Style and Usage. | PN4783 .S57 1999 | |
| Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. | BF76.7 .P83 2001 | |
| UPI Stylebook: The Authoritative Handbook for Writers, Editors & News Directors. | PN4783 .M47 1992 | |
Thesauri |
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| In Other Words: Making Better Word Choices in American English. | PE2833 .B47 1997 | |
| Penguin Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form. | PE1591 .M75 2001 | |
| Roget's International Thesaurus. | PE1591 .R73 2001 | |
| Usage
and Style |
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| Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage: A Guide to Nondiscriminatory Language. | PE1460 .M26 1991 | |
| Dictionary of Cliches. | PE1689 .R65 1985 | |
| Dictionary
of Confusable Words. |
PE1591 .D53 2000 | |
| Facts
on File Dictionary of Cliches. |
PE1689 .A48 2001 | |
| Jargon: Its Uses and Abuses. | PE1585 .N37 1993 | |
| Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions. | PE1460 .E196 1997 | |
| New
Fowler's Modern English Usage. |
PE1628 .F65 2000 | |
| Macmillan Good English Handbook. | PE1464 .H667 1997 | |
| Nonsexist Word Finder : A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage. | PE1689 .M23 1987 | |
| NTC's Dictionary of Easily Confused Words: With Complete Examples of Correct Usage. | PE1595 .W48 1995 | |
| Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style. | PE2827 .G372 2000 | |
| Words on Words : A Dictionary for Writers and Others Who Care About Words. | PE1116.J6 B7 | |
| Electronic
Sources The Library subscribes to over 200 different online services. Those listed below were chosen primarily because of their breadth of coverage and ease of access. |
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| Dictionaries
of the English Language |
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| Merriam-Webster
Online: The Language Center. Available: http://www.merriamwebster.com |
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| Oxford
English Dictionary Online. Available: http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl |
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Dictionaries
of
Quotations |
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| Familiar
Quotations; A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced
to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. (Bartlett's 1919
edition) Available: http://www.bartleby.com/100/ |
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| Research
Databases |
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General & Current Issues Collections-- |
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| InfoTrac OneFile -- Good for nearly any topic, InfoTrac OneFile is an excellent source for newspaper and periodical articles published from 1980 to date. Subject areas covered include business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. The database offers access to millions of full-text articles, many in image format, and is updated daily. . Connect now | ||
| Lexis Nexis Academic -- Providing access to newspapers, magazines, and journals worldwide, Lexis Nexis provides the full text of thousands of publications. Included are U.S. and foreign newspapers, state and regional sources, trade magazines, popular consumer magazines, research journals, and a complete legal research collection. Researchers tackling a current interest topic can find popular coverage from a variety of news sources, research the finer points of a topic in major research publications, and even identify legal issues surrounding the topic, along with supporting court cases. Connect now | ||
| Net Library -- UNF's subscription to NetLibrary provides researchers with access to the complete text of over 30,000 books covering a variety of disciplines. Book contents are identical to the original print publications and include all supporting illustrations, photography, and supporting materials. Books in the collection range from the very general to the very scholarly and include fiction as well as nonfiction. Connect now | ||
| Wilson Select Plus-- An excellent starting place for nearly any topic, Wilson Select provides access to over 1600 magazines and journals covering a variety of disciplines, from education to sociology to science to music. Sources range in focus from very general coverage to in-depth scholarly research. Coverage extends from 1994 to date and includes full-text access of over 750,000 articles. Connect now | ||
| -- Newspapers & More -- | ||
| Ethnic NewsWatch -- Ethnic NewsWatch provides the full text of over 200 newspapers, newsletters, and magazines. Researchers will find culturally diverse coverage of major topics ranging from social issues to politics to the arts. Ethnic NewsWatch provides alterbatives to mainstream news reporting and editorial comment. Connect now | ||
| GenderWatch -- Covering nearly 200 full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals, GenderWatch provides researchers with varied perspectives on women's, gay, lesbian, and transgendered issues. Articles explore the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as: the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure. Connect now | ||
| NewsBank -- NewsBank is a comprehensive, full-text news resource covering more than 500 regional and national newspaper and newswire sources. NewsBank provides easy access to news and commentary on social issues, economics, environment, government, health, science, and sports. Coverage is from 1992 to date. In addition to NewsBank NewsFile, the Library subscribes to a number of Florida newspapers through NewsBank, including the Florida Times-Union and the Miami Herald. Connect now | ||
| -- Statistics -- | ||
| Lexis Nexis Statistical -- An incredibly rich collection of statistical tables, the Lexis Nexis collection covers publications from all major departments and agencies of the U.S. Government as well as statistical publications from private sources and world sources such as the World Bank. The Lexis Nexis Power Tables allow researchers to limit searches by geographical area, demographic factors, data range, and frequency of reporting. Statistical data provide researchers with powerful, statistical support for a variety of issues. Connect now | ||
| -- Government Publications-- | ||
| Lexis Nexis Congressional -- Researchers needing to discover in detail what are the hot issues in the United States Congress will find Lexis Nexis Congressional invaluable. Included are the full text of congressional reports, documents, prints, bills and the Congressional Record, as well as the full text of prepared statements and selected question & answer transcripts from Congressional hearings from 1988 to date. As a bill makes its way through the Congress to the President's desk, Lexis Nexis provides tracking information that will help a researcher tell at a glance how far along a piece of legislation has come in the legislative process. Lexis Nexis Congressional also includes the CIS indexing and abstracting service from 1970 to date. Connect now | ||
| -- Specialized Subject Databases -- | ||
| The library provides access to specialized subject databases that will assist researchers in focusing on nearly any discipline. Too numerous to include in this guide, a complete, classified listing of the Library's more than 200 databases is available at http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/bases.html. | ||
Research
Tools |
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Style Sheet Assistance -- |
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| RefWorks -- RefWorks provides automatic formatting of article citations in over a hundred bibliographic styles, including MLA, APA, ASA, Turabian, Chicago, and numerous journal formats. Interfacing directly with major research collections such as FirstSearch, ProQuest, and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, RefWorks allows researchers to build multiple databases of article and book citations and to generate alphabetized, formatted bibliographies at the conclusion of the research process. Connect now | ||
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Verification & Linking Tools -- |
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SFX
-- Identifying articles on a variety of topics has been greatly simplified
by the wealth of available online research databases. Finding the
articles can still be problematic, however. SFX provides a means for
researchers to link directly to available full-text articles from
within nearly any library-subscribed database and to find out where
to retrieve articles not available online by providing options for
searching the library's catalog and the catalogs of other libraries.
Additionally, a researcher can link directly to information on any
magazine or journal in the Ulrich's database and find out if the source
is scholarly or popular and whether the publication uses the peer-review
or referee process to screen articles. SFX provides libraries with
a huge leap forward in making material access a simpler process for
researchers. Look for the SFX logo in database results lists and click
to determine article availability online and in print.  |
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| Internet
Resources The following services/sources have been chosen because of the possibilities they offer for identifying texts and media on the Internet. These are only a few of the available services, but, undoubtedly, some of the richest.. |
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| -- Digital Collections -- | ||
| American
Memory at the Library of Congress -- Described as "Historical
Collections for the National Digital Library," American Memory
is a showcase of digitally available materials documenting every aspect
of American life. Collections include written materials, motion pictures,
photographs and prints, maps, and sound recordings, all available
online. Available: http://memory.loc.gov/ |
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| Bartleby.com:
Great Books Online -- Featuring more than 370,000 pages of
information, Bartleby provides "students, educators and the intellectually
curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web,
free of charge." Bartleby includes over 86,000 quotations and
over 10,000 poems in its collection of online materials and even offers
access to Roget's Thesaurus, the King James Version of the Bible,
and the Columbia Encyclopedia. Print texts are supplemented with maps,
drawings, and other illustrative materials. Available: http://www.bartleby.com/ |
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| Digital
Library Federation: Public Access Collecitons -- Full-text
archival collections are available from members of the Digital Library
Federation, including the Library of Congress and the National Archives
and Records Administration. Researchers can search online collections
for text and non-text materials using a variety of search keys, including
title, description, location, and publishing institution. A browse
option lets the researcher browse all materials or browse by institution.
Available: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll |
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| Palmm
-- "Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM)
is a cooperative initiative of the state universities of Florida to
provide digital access to important source materials. PALMM projects
may involve a single institution or may be collaborative efforts between
multiple institutions or a combination of university and non-university
institutions. PALMM projects create high-quality virtual collections
relevant to the students, research community and general citizenry
of Florida." Available: http://susdl.fcla.edu/ |
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| Project
Gutenberg -- Envisioned as an electronic collection of the
world's literature currently in the public domain, Gutenberg is a
cooperative project of many researchers and institutions that produces
digital texts from historical print documents. Works of literature,
history, science, and other fields are represented in Gutenberg's
internationally accessible library. "The Project Gutenberg Philosophy
is to make information, books and other materials available to the
general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs
and people can easily read, use, quote, and search." More than
3000 Etexts have been posted since the project's inception. Available: http://promo.net/pg/ |
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| -- Search Services -- | ||
| Google
-- The veritable powerhouse of search engines, Google has been lauded
for its user-friendly interface, its comprehensive index of Web sites,
and its uncanny ability to identify the best results for nearly any
topic. In a Web that includes billions of documents, a powerful search
engine is a necessity. Google has worked a "one size fits all"
approach into a winning solution that helps researchers easily search
nearly 3.1 billion publicly available Web pages. Not only does Google
provide a logical approach to finding things on the Web, it also allows
image searching, filetype searching, newsgroup searching, and searching
by specific domain. Search Google now at: http://www.google.com |
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| Teoma
-- The first search service to give Google a run for the money, Teoma
boasts "subject referencing" as its key to producing authoritative
search results. According to Teoma's Web site, "Teoma provides
better results because it goes beyond traditional page ranking methods
to determine authority, in addition to relevancy. To determine the
authority or quality of a site's content, Teoma uses Subject-Specific
Popularity. Subject-Specific Popularity ranks a site based on the
number of same-subject pages that reference it, not just general popularity,
to determine a site's level of authority." Teoma means "expert"
in Gaelic. Do an expert search now in Teoma: http://www.teoma.com |
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Yahoo
-- Do you Yahoo? So the advertising goes. Yahoo's most notable strength
is its human-cataloged directory listings. Yahoo provides much more,
including an Internet search based on Google's index of Web pages
and commercial links, but it's continuing virtue is its easy to
navigate subject-organized directory listings. For a researcher
trying to identify a topic of interest represented on the Web, Yahoo
makes things simple: browse from general to specific using Yahoo's
carefully thought-out subject categories. |
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| Other Related Library Guides and Resources | ||
| Citation
Guide to APA and MLA Styles. Available: http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/citationguide.pdf |
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| Evaluating
Electronic Resources. Available: http://www.unf.edu/~alderman/BLISS2/EvaluationGuide.html |
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Evaluating
Internet Sources. |
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| Finding
and Using Reference Materials. Available: http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/ReferenceBooks.html |
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| How
to Find Both Sides of the Story. Available: http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/bothsides.pdf |
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| Plagiarism:
What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It. (Indiana University) Available: http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html |
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| Subject
Guides Available: http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/subjectguides.html |
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| What
Is a Refereed Article? Available: http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/refereedarticle.html |
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| What
Is a Scholarly Journal? Available: http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/scholarlyjournal.html |
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| Guide prepared by Reference Librarian Jim Alderman, August 2003. Comments: alderman@unf.edu | ||