http://www.lib.vt.edu/subject-guides/CLA/culture.html en Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:27:30 -0400 jnardine@vt.edu jnardine@vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/daily-life-through-history-from-greenwood.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/G/S_greenwood-dlth.jpg" alt="Greenwood (Daily Life Through History)" height="79px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.gem.greenwood.com/login_special.asp?c=O1033" title="Daily Life Through History from Greenwood" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.gem.greenwood.com/login_special.asp?c=O1033')" shape="rect">Daily Life Through History from Greenwood</a> </span></h2><p><i>Daily Life Through History</i> provides full-text encyclopedic articles and primary documents in HTML on the Ancient Worlds and Mesoamerica, from Mesopotamia to Victorian England. Includes color and black-and-white images, illustrations, and maps, chronologies, bibliographies, glossaries, and lesson plans for teachers. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000150"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/daily-life-through-history-from-greenwood.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/daily-life-through-history-from-greenwood.html Countries and cultures Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Restricted to Virginia Tech users Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/P/perseus-digital-library.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/P/S_perseus.jpg" alt="Perseus" height="103px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/search" title="Perseus Digital Library" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/search')" shape="rect">Perseus Digital Library</a> </span></h2><p><i>Perseus Digital Library</i> covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, plus Arabic materials, Germanic materials, 19th-century America, the Renaissance, and Civil War issues of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It collects texts, images, datasets and other primary materials. The database assembles and structures encyclopedias, maps, grammars, dictionaries and other reference works. 850,000 reference articles provide background on 450,000 people, places, organizations, dictionary definitions, grammatical functions and other topics.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/P/perseus-digital-library.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/P/perseus-digital-library.html Article searching Countries and cultures Ebook packages Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Multimedia Newspapers and magazines Statistics and data sets Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/H/historical-abstracts-from-ebscohost.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/E/S_ebsco.jpg" alt="EBSCOhost interface" height="123px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="This resource provides a mobile interface; see description for link" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_mobile.gif" title="This resource provides a mobile interface; see description for link" width="10" /> <a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/screencasts/ebsco/index.html"><img alt="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_screencast.gif" title="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" width="20" /></a> <img alt="database provides Get VText links" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_getvtext-20.gif" title="database provides Get VText links" width="80" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=hia" title="Historical Abstracts from EBSCOhost" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=hia')" shape="rect">Historical Abstracts from EBSCOhost</a> </span></h2><p><em>Historical Abstracts</em> indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journals, books, and dissertations that cover the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Full text available as HTML and PDF. The database allows limiting results to specific time periods (not just publication dates). You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1800s-present. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000121"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/H/historical-abstracts-from-ebscohost.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/H/historical-abstracts-from-ebscohost.html Article searching Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Theses and dissertations Restricted to Virginia Tech users Mobile interface Screencast tutorials available Get VText