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1100-1935.
Classic works of French and Italian literature, non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Subsets of the collection include French Women Writers, Provencal Poetry, Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database, Multilingual Bible Project, and Textes de Francais Ancien (TFA). Use this resource to search a number of French dictionaries and encyclopedias originally published between 1606 and 1935.
Alternate name: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Vendor name: University of Chicago
Languages: French, Italian, Provencal, Latin
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
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Articles in all subject areas from more than 16,000 journals.
Subject coverage in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture is particularly strong.
Vendor name: OCLC FirstSearch
Update frequency: daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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Web of Knowledge
A&HCI ® provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals. Use this tool to identify how often a particular author has been cited in the work of peers or to identify the most influential scholarship on a topic. (Covering period: 1975-present. Update frequency: Updated weekly. )
Clase/ Periodica
1975-.
Citations to articles published in Latin American and Caribbean journals.
Articles are from 2,600 scholarly journals published in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Spanish, Portuguese, French and English language journals are included.. CLASE indexes articles in the social sciences and humanities (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) and PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology (Indice de Revistas Laninoamericanas en Ciencias).
Alternate name: Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
Vendor name: OCLC FirstSearch
Update frequency: quarterly
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French and English
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
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English translation dictionaries including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin and Portuguese.
The Dictionary of Spanish Law and dictionaries of business terms for French, Spanish and German are also available.
Alternate name: xreferplus
Vendor name: Credo Reference
Languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin and Portuguese
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
Basic facts about history, culture and lifestyles in 187 countries.
Cultural reports for 187 countries and territories each including 25 categories such as land and climate, history, personal appearance, greetings, gestures, family, diet, holidays, economy, education, health, and events and trends.
Alternate name: Culturegrams World Edition
Vendor name: Culturegrams
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Kotula, JD
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Full text of most dissertations produced after 1997; citations and abstracts for others.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses contains over 1.5 million entries, providing citations to North American and European dissertations from 1861 forward, with abstracts from 1980 forward. It also provides citations and abstracts for theses from 1988 forward. Full text of UNLV theses and dissertations available from 1996 to the present. Full text from all other institutions available from 1997 to the present.
Alternate name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Update frequency: Updated quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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Digital copies of more than 30,000 complete books, reports and other resources covering all academic subject areas.
Books and other materials are arranged in five main subject areas - business and economics, career and general education, computers, engineering and applied sciences, humanities, social/behavioral sciences and life/physical sciences. The ebrary reader is required to view books and can be downloaded for free from ebrary. A free account is needed In order to access some features (i.e. saving notes and highlights).
Vendor name: Ebrary
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
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Searches scholarly journal articles. Set preferences to UNLV for full text access!
Google Scholar (Beta) searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports from many academic and technical fields. It is freely available to anyone searching the Internet; however, many of the links that lead to full text resources are not. On your first visit, go to Google Scholar Preferences and use the Library Links box to set UNLV as your source for no-fee access to many full text articles. For answers to questions about Google Scholar, check out the FAQ.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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Indexes academic journals with content about Latin America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) is the source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
HAPI currently provides over 34,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Alternate name: Hapi Online
Vendor name: UCLA Latin American Center
Update frequency: monthly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
Encyclopedia of linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics.
This encyclopedia encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics. Special attention is given to interrelations within these branches of the field and to relations of linguistics with other disciplines.
Vendor name: Oxford Reference Online
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
Database of grants, fellowships and scholarships for individuals and institutions.
Over 9,000 funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities can be located in this resource. Advanced and basic search features are offered as well as links to the websites of the funding organization. The database has an alert service that allows users to be notified of relevant funding. An expertise service allows individuals to create a profile by institution for others to view their activities.
Vendor name: Illinois Researcher Information Service
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka
Index of literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Iter's bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books, including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues. (Covering period: 1784 - present. )
Vendor name: University of Toronto
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago.
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
Vendor name: JSTOR
Update frequency: constant
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Memoirs, letters, and essays by Latin American women.
Writers from the following countries are represented: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela
Vendor name: Alexander Street Press
Update frequency: quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Explore word histories in this compilation of over 150 dictionaries from the early modern period.
Compiles over 150 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries and glossaries from the early modern period in which either source or target language is English, as well as linguistic treatises, and encyclopedic or topical works. A half-million word-entries devised by contemporary speakers of early modern English describe the meaning of words, and their equivalents in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other tongues encountered then in Europe, America, and Asia.
Alternate name: LEME
Vendor name: University of Toronto
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Index of articles in linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
LLBA covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
Alternate name: LLBA
Vendor name: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Update frequency: monthly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
Books available for 1-3 day delivery to UNLV Libraries.
LINK+ is a book request service that uses a shared library catalog to allow UNLV students, staff and faculty to search for and borrow over 8 million books and documents from over 40 libraries throughout California and Nevada.
More borrowing options.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information
Editorial contact information as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines for 7100 journals in modern languages and literature.
The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, of which 4,400 are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. Entries include editorial contact information as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. This directory has publication information only - use the MLA International Bibliography to locate journal articles in literature.
Vendor name: Chadwyck-Healey
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Literary criticism published in journal articles, book chapters, books and more.
Search this subject index to identify journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations about literature in English and modern languages, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts. Links to full text whenever available; to search within the full text of some articles, search MLA via LION's Criticism & Reference search.
Alternate name: MLA Bibliography
Vendor name: Chadwyck-Healey / ProQuest
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
Digital copies of more than 3,000 complete books, reports and other resources covering all academic subject areas.
Browse e-books for quick research and reference or create a free account to check out items, create notes, and list favorites.
Vendor name: NetLibrary
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
A collection of English translation dictionaries including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin and Portuguese.
The Dictionary of Spanish Law and dictionaries of business terms for French, Spanish and German are also available.
Vendor name: Oxford Reference Online
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
Journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published between 1802-1995.
Search international scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995. PAO includes pre-1995 issues of over 400 journals, including many journals published in languages other than English.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Monographs, preprints and working papers in linguistics.
Monographs, preprints and working papers in linguistics available via bepress, the Berkeley Electronic Press. ResearchNow is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals and all working papers, preprints and other 'grey literature' content from selected institutional repositories hosted by bepress.
Vendor name: bepress
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
Browse DVDs available by subject area.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Ipri, Tom
UNLV Library Catalog
Find out which books, encyclopedias, periodicals, audiovisual items, maps and government documents are available from UNLV Libraries by searching the library catalog. Includes links to books available online.
The LOCATION and CALL NUMBER information helps you physically locate each item in the library.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
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To discover whether UNLV Libraries offers online access or owns a print copy of a particular journal, search for the name of the magazine or journal in this list.
A link to "University of Nevada Las Vegas Holdings" will show you information about print copies of the journal. Links to online subscriptions will list the range of dates available for that journal.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information
Web of Knowledge
1990-.
Web of Knowledge is a platform for Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Index, Journal Citation Reports, Biological Abstracts, MEDLINE, and Inspec.
Vendor name: Thomson ISI
Update frequency: weekly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Kotula, JD;
Smith, Caroline
WorldCat
11th century -.
Use WorldCat to search the holdings of academic, public and special libraries around the world.
This union catalog contains records of books and other items in libraries worldwide. Items owned by UNLV Libraries are indicated; UNLV students, faculty and staff may request books via Document Delivery Services.
Vendor name: OCLC FirstSearch
Update frequency: Updated daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information;
Heaton, Shelley
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