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Black Thought and Culture
This database is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders, teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures, covering 250 years of history. Included are previously inaccessible material, such as letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts from over 1,000 authors.
History Library Guide
Do your students need help understanding or finding primary sources? Our History Library Guide helps students find books, articles, and primary sources for their history related assignments. Resources include library databases, government documents, historical newspapers, and more. Have suggestions for the guide? Please let us know!
Juneteenth Resources
Celebrate and learn about the Juneteenth holiday with these resources.
NSUWorks for Primary Research
Primary Source: Images
NSUWorks is more than just an archive of faculty journal articles and student theses and dissertations. The NSU Libraries' Archives has a robust Digital Collection of historic images of NSU, as well as special collections of newsletters, gallery exhibition programs, and the historic collections of the Fort Lauderdale Museum's Naval Air Station, Donald Zimmer's Frank Lloyd Wright Archive, and the Richard Harrison Underwater Photography Slide Collection.
Primary Source: Data
Did you know that you can add your datasets to NSUWorks? More and more journals are requiring your data to be published either before or alongside your article. Publishers will suggest repositories for you but you can ultimately choose where it goes. Why not put it in NSUWorks? The benefits to this include statistical data of the popularity of your work, NSU branding, and librarian oversight for compliance. HCAS has been collecting data for years in NSUWorks. If you would like to get more information about datasets in NSUWorks for HCAS, please contact Keri Baker at kbaker1@nova.edu.
Primary Source & Open Education Resource!
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is the world's largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. It contains hundreds of thousands of volumes from the 15th-21st centuries and includes high quality full text scans of field notes, correspondence, articles, botany volumes, and rare books by botanists, horticulturists, biologists, zoologists, and other scientists.
SciFinder Undergoes Major Update
On Monday, June 13, SciFinder updated it's platform to launch a new brand and expand on its discoverability layer. Whether you are a veteran SciFinder user or new to discovering this tool, you should know that :
CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform leverages the largest curated source of scientific information in the world, uniting task-specific solutions including CAS SciFindern, CAS Formulus®, and CAS Analytical Methods™. The CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform supports multifaceted scientific research such as retrosynthetic planning, formulation design, testing-related methods research, and biosequence searching to accelerate breakthroughs at every step of the innovation journey. Learn more at cas.org/solutions.