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Guide to Resources

DRAFT: New View of Herbst Library

About the Herbst Library

History of The Library
Part I:The Old Library
Part II: The Herbst Library

Web Resources

Magazines and Newspapers

Virtual Resources

College Guide
For Urban Courses
Librarian's Index to the Internet
Google Scholar (Search scholarly papers; Use ProQuest to get the full-text)
Google Directory (Browse the web by topic)
Google Image Search
Alta Vista Image, Audio and Video Search
The Internet Archive: Access to vast meda resources--video, audio, documents and more.
Search Engines
Google
Google Book Search

Search Herbst Library site for web resources:

ProQuest : online newspaper and periodical database; includes New York Times full-text archive from 1980 to the present.
All 5 Historical Newspapers: Traditional view
- Historical New York Times from 1851-2003.
- Historical Chicago Defender (African-American newspaper): 1905-1975
- Historical Washington Post: 1877-1990
- Historical Christian Science Monitor: 1908-1993
- Historical Wall Street Journal: 1889-1989
Graphical access to all 5 historical newpapers
eLibrary : online access to newspapers, magazines, books, audio/video clips, radio and TV transcripts.
Academic Universe online news, medical and legal information
New York Times daily paper. Requires registration.
New York Times archive 1980 to present use ProQuest. For 1851 to 1980 use Historical NYT through ProQuest.
Washington Post daily paper. Requires registration. For archived articles 1987 to present use ProQuest.
San Francisco Gate: Chronicle. For archived issues use ProQuest.
San Francisco Examiner.
World newspapers and magazines from The Internet Public Library (many in foreign languages).
National Geographic Index online
Current History See Librarian for ID and password.
Scientific American Archive
Other newspapers and magazines

Search all or selected eBook titles in the Arts, Environment, History, Science and Medicine, or Multicultural Studies. Click here and then on Show All to view list of titles.

Many of the History Course Readers have been digitized. Check with the library or your history teacher for access to the pdf and doc files. Mac OSX Text to Speech allows you to listen to these course readings.

Audio Books available from library:

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky (tr. by Garnett)
Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
Gilgamesh, the new English version by Stephen Mitchell.
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Graceland by Chris Abani
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Other Libraries

Reference

Audio of Shakespeare plays:

Internet Public Library
ibiblio the public's library and digital archive
Library of Congress
San Francisco Public Library
SFPL online catalog
San Francisco State Library
SFSU online catalog InvestiGator
UCSF (University of California at San Francisco) Library (Galen)
Search of Galen II catalog and Medline available.
The British Library
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Gateway to the Europe's National Libraries : GABRIEL
Other Libraries

American National Biography: The ANB
Annals of American History
Britannica Online with extra features.
eLibrary
GALE Resource Centers List of all Gale Resources. QuickSearch, searching across many databases at once, is available only on campus.
- Biography Resource Center
- History Resource Center: US and Modern World
- Health and Wellness Center
- Informe: Enews and magazines in Spanish
- Opposing Viewpoints
- Science Resource Center
Grove Art Online
Grove Music Online
Other ProQuest products
Oxford Reference Online Access to Oxford University Press reference works: dictionaries, literature, science, medicines, art, architecture and other resources.
Information Please Almanac, Encyclopedia, Atlas, and Dictionary.
Oxford English Dictionary: The OED
Dictionary.com Access to English and Foreign language dictionaries and other reference tools.
Merriam Webster Online Dictionary and thesaurus. Includes pronunciation.
Information Please Almanac
Roget's Thesaurus
Bartleby Quotations and other online references
Internet Public Library Reference

As You Like It
Cymbeline
Henry VI
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Love's Labour Lost
Macbeth
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Winter's Tale

Other Resources

Primary Sources

Online texts from IPL
American Memory documents, films, panoramic photographs, sound recordings, interviews.
Library of Congress Access to the Library of Congress, Thomas (US. Legislature), Exhibitions, and more.
ibiblio the public's library and digital archive
Other Full-Text resources

Help

Yahoo Dictionaries
Yahoo Reference
Copyright Issues
Primer on Palestine, Israel, and Arab-Israeli Conflict from MERIP [Middle East Research and Information Project]

Help with Writing a Research Paper from the Internet Public Library.
With research or citations
Citation Guide
NoodleBib Express : helps build your citation
Choosing a search engine
Creating web pages
TILT (Tutorial on Library and Information access from Texas University)
OASIS (Tutorial help on Information Access from SFSU)

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Resources for Urban Courses