Reviews & Guides


AMA Manual of Style

Includes full text of the 10th edition print book plus online-only corrections and updates. Updates to the Manual are annotated within the text and identified in the Updates section. Contains an interactive SI conversion calculator to easily convert units of measure. Searches and content may be saved in the personalized “My Searches” and “My Content” areas. Content can be displayed on-screen, in a printer-friendly view or downloaded to PDF. Diagrams, tables, and charts may be downloaded to PDF or PowerPoint slides. Permits content sharing via email, print or social media. Uses the Oxfordonline interface.

Journal Citation Reports

Provides information for journal evaluation using citation data including total cites, impact factor (with and without self-cites), 5-year impact factor, citable items, cited half-life, citing half-life, Eigenfactor score, article influence score, % articles in citable items, normalized Eigenfactor, and average JIF percentile. Also available are ranking by both Web of Science and Essential Science Indicator categories. Find journals by title or category. Can limit to open access journals only.

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Bowker’s Books in Print

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The following resources are no longer available from the OCLC FirstSearch service.  We have moved PAIS to ProQuest and the other 4 to EBSCOhost.

 

ARBAonline

This resource was on trial and has been purchased by the Baylor Libraries.

Book Index with Reviews

Provides a searchable database of information about fiction and nonfiction books.

Reader’s Advisor

The content in The Reader’s Advisor Online includes all the volumes in Libraries Unlimited’s well-known Genreflecting series, and contains selected essays from The Readers’ Advisor’s Companion and Nonfiction Readers’ Advisory, and more. It covers over 400 genres, subgenres, and reading interests, including nonfiction and fiction.

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Trial Expires: Thursday, April 23, 2009

ARBAOnline

It is the most comprehensive, authoritative database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works.

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Trial Expires: Thursday, April 23, 2009

Book Review Digest Retrospective
Reflecting eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest, this database provides excerpts from and citations to book reviews from 1905 to 1982 to fiction and nonfiction, reference works, textbooks, and children’s books in the areas of art, biography, business, education, general interest, history, humanities, literature, library and information science, music, religion, science and technology, and social sciences.