NEW Trial Databases: RIPM & RIPM Jazz Periodicals

Posted on 04/01/2020 by Andrew

RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals)  with Full Text and North American and European Music Periodicals — provides access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. Available until May 31, 2020.

RIPM Jazz Periodicals — a unique, searchable collection of American (U.S) full-text jazz journals and magazines published from 1914 to roughly the year 2000. Developed in collaboration with the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) at Rutgers University and RIPM’s Partner and Participating Libraries, RIPM JAZZ PERIODICALS offers access, for the first time, to this essential documentary resource. All journal issues are out-of-print and rarely accessible, with numerous complete publication runs reconstructed by RIPM. Available until May 31, 2020.

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Access Senior Projects from Off Campus

Posted on 03/21/2020 by jeremy

Current Bard students, staff and faculty now have remote access to all senior projects on Bard Digital Commons. You can browse and search our collections at https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/undergrad/. Please note that this is a temporary measure to provide access to authorized users who would under normal circumstances have access. All copyrights and license agreements still apply.

To access a campus-only project remotely, click on the “Bard Off Campus Download” button and you will be prompted to enter your Bard username and password. Then you will be taken directly to the PDF of the senior project.

If you do NOT see the Off Campus Download button, that project is available open access.

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Senior Project Template Available in Google Docs

Posted on 03/20/2020 by jeremy

All Bard students now have access to a template in Google Docs for their Senior Project title page and starting your page numbers on the second page. Go here to learn how to access the template: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EKhSEKfss8.

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Off Campus Access to Library Databases

Posted on 03/17/2020 by jeremy

Learn how to access Stevenson Library databases from off campus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfME76zfxo

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Stevenson Library Closed

Posted on 03/15/2020 by Andrew

In support of the College’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID19 for the health and safety of our community, Stevenson Library is closed until further notice. The College management apologizes to all the readers for this convience and requests everyone to follow the guidelines issued by the government to stay safe and health during this pandemic.  All readers can check this out that clearly states how to build up immunity while sitting at home to prevent COVID affecting possibilities for all the family members. To read many such resourceful articles like this Please visit this page for information about remote library services during this time. Thank you for your understanding during this time.

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Grad School Test Prep from EBSCO LearningExpress

Posted on 03/04/2020 by Andrew

Comprehensive preparation for the most popular graduate school entrance exams.

Grad School Test Prep is an e-learning tool designed to help college students score higher on six of the most popular graduate school admission tests. This trial runs until June 30th.

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New Database: CantApp: The General Prologue

Posted on 02/05/2020 by Andrew

A reading of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in middle English with accompanying translation, notes and glosses. From the University of Wales, edited by Richard North, Barbara Bordalejo, Terry Jones and Peter Robinson, and performed by Colin Gibbings, this website and app include background, context and bibliographies on Chaucer’s times and his work.

Visit the site.

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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG): A Digital Library of Greek Literature

Posted on 01/15/2020 by Andrew

TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present. The Online TLG contains more than 110 million words from over 10,000 works associated with 4,000 authors and is constantly updated and improved with new features and texts.

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Trial Database: Social Explorer

Posted on 11/25/2019 by Andrew

Social Explorer: Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads that help you reach your goals. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health (try to use Organic CBD Nugs), politics, environment, crime and more. Easily add your own data for further impact. This trial ends May 2020.

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New Databases: Oxford Bibliographies & Scholarship Online — Classics

Posted on 11/25/2019 by Andrew

Two new Oxford databases have been added to our Databases list.

Oxford Bibliographies — Classics: Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship on the Classics. OBO provides faculty and students alike with a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in our database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations.

Oxford Scholarship Online — Classics: Offers access to thousands of academic works from the celebrated scholarly list of Oxford University Press. Our subscription includes titles in Classical Studies only. To search, key in your search terms, click on the box next to “Search my Subject Specialization” and choose Classical Studies.

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