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Website in maintenance - direct links to library services

We are working on a new website. We apologize if some links are not working correctly.

We are listing direct links to the catalog, databases, e-journals list and interlibrary loan here for convenience:

USF catalog (to find books): http://usf.catalog.fcla.edu/
Databases (to find articles): http://metalib.fcla.edu/V/?func=find-db-1&id=fpml5
A-Z e-journals list: http://sfx.fcla.edu/usf/azlist/default
You can use this direct link for interlibrary loan (to get books/articles [...]

New ProQuest interface

The USF Libraries have switched some of the databases by vendor ProQuest to a new interface this week. Those databases include ABI-Inform, Hoover’s Company Profiles, ERIC, AGRICOLA, MEDLINE, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, among many others.

Some databases still have the old interface available (like ABI-Inform) but expect them to be switched to the new format soon. [...]

EBSCO databases down

The EBSCO databases are currently down for all users. EBSCO have told us they will remain that way for another two hours at least (until 4PM).

Some of our EBSCO databases include Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Criminal Justice Abstracts, EconLit, Education Full Text, OmniFile Full Text Mega, one version each of ERIC and [...]

Credo Reference down for maintenance

On Friday, February 10th, from 11PM to 3AM EST, Credo Reference will be unavailable because of routine maintenance work.

Credo Reference provides access to one hundred reference resources, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and biographical sources chosen to meet a broad range of research needs.

Wikipedia blackout tomorrow

Wikipedia is going offline for 24 hours – starting at 12:00 a.m. Eastern on January 18th.

Why? And, importantly, what can you do if you need to do research?

Why is Wikipedia going offline? In a statement released January 16, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, Sue Gardner explained, “The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in [...]

New electronic resources in English: British Periodicals Collection II and ECCO II

In a first-ever development, the USF Department of English and the USF Libraries have jointly purchased two significant collections: British Periodicals Collection II and Eighteenth Century Collections Online II. They are now available online and bring additional depth to our research collections.

British Periodicals Collection II

British Periodicals Collection II from ProQuest consists of [...]

Gartner: IT products, resources and trends information

The USF System has partnered with Gartner, a leading IT research company, to provide access to their extensive resources and information on best practices, trends and emerging technologies in Information Technology. Content includes market analysis, statistics, and forecasts; industry information on the following industries: banking and investment services, education, energy and utilities, government, healthcare providers, [...]

Changes to "Find it @USF" - now easier to use

To facilitate linking to full-text resources, the USF Libraries have moved to a simplified version of the “Find it @USF” screen (aka SFX screen) on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. This is the screen that permits to open the full-text of a journal article, for example, from one of our article databases.

This change is based [...]

E-resources on trial: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

The USF Libraries are currently running a trial for the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, until May 13, 2011.

Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a database that integrates scholarly, academic, and statistical content from a variety of print and online sources to offer users access to information on differing points of view on current social [...]

New e-resources: Aluka: Struggles for Freedom and FBIS Daily Reports

Two new online resources with an African focus have been added to the collection of the USF Libraries:

Aluka: Struggles for Freedom

The liberation of Southern Africa was one of the major political developments of the 20th century. The demise of Portuguese colonial rule, the end of white settler domination, and the dismantling of the apartheid [...]