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Long Island University and Faculty Resource Databases
- Cabell's
Directory of Publishing Opportunities (Cabell)
 
- Helps professors, graduate
students, and researchers publish their manuscripts by providing the following
information for a large number of journals: editor, address, phone, email, website,
acceptance rate, and percentage of invited articles - topic areas the journal
emphasizes and type of readership - manuscript guidelines, style, format,
and number of copies required - type of review process, number of reviewers,
time required for review, and availability of reviewers' comments - and fees
charged to review or publish the manuscript. Cover journals published in the
fields of Business, Education, Library Science, and Psychology.
- Course
Evaluations (C.W. Post)
- At the end of each semester, students are able to anonymously provide
feedback by filling out course evaluation forms. The results tabulated from the most
recent semesters may be accessed online but only from public computers in the library's Reference Department,
Periodicals Department, and Bibliographic Instruction Lab, not from computers in the IT computer labs or
elsewhere on campus. The full
collection of past evaluations is available in the Special Collections
department on weekdays from 9:00-5:00.
- Dissertations
& Theses @ Long Island University (ProQuest)
- Provides access to the dissertations and theses of Long Island University graduate
students who have published through UMI Dissertation Publishing. Includes the full text of
dissertations in PDF form back to 1997 (with a few as far back as 1972). Includes citations
back to 1972 (with a few as far back as 1953).
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Electronic Reserves (C.W. Post)
- Information for faculty to help you to get started with our
ERes Electronic Reserve system,
including a discussion of copyright issues.
- Frequently Asked Questions About the Library (C.W. Post)
- Brief overview of the library's resources and services as well as an introduction
to beginning your research and answers to commonly asked questions.
- InPrint :
Publishing Opportunities for College Librarians (ACRL)
- Describes journal publishing opportunities in
library and information science, higher education, computer
technology, and other related areas. Includes such relevant information as
acceptance rate, response time, preferred article length, and whether the
publication is refereed. A brief description of the editorial policy, topics covered,
style, and audience is included along with contact information for each publication.
[Password required. Inquire at the Reference Desk or ext. 2305]
- ISI
Web of Knowledge (Thomson Scientific)
- Consists of the
ISI
Web of Science that includes
Science Citation Index Expanded
(a multidisciplinary index to 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines
including astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, materials science, mathematics,
medicine, physics, zoology, and more)
and Social Sciences Citation Index
(with more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences
disciplines including anthropology, history, industrial relations, philosophy, political
science, psychology, public health, social issues, urban studies, women's studies, and
more, as well as relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific
and technical journals).
Covering back ten years, these indexes not only allow you to search for articles
within these fields, but also for the bibliographies within each article in order to get
lists of both the sources used by that article and the later articles that referred
back to your article as a source.
Journal
Citation Reports (from the previous
year) and HighlyCited.com enable you to see how often a particular journal or
author is cited by other publications to evaluate their impact on the scholarly world.
Users can create their own profiles to personalize their searching experience. Also
provides access to the medical database,
Medline,
from 1950 to the present
as well as other resources and weblinks (Biology Browser) in science and research.
EndNote Web
enables users to save and format their lists of citations.
(User Guide)
[Note: Access is limited to six simultaneous users, so please click the "Log Out"
button when you are finished.]
- MLA
Directory of Periodicals (Ebsco)
- Offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the
MLA International Bibliography. Entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency,
circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
- RefWorks (Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts)
- RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager
that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text
files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and
automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.
- Select "Sign up for an Individual Account" and then choose your
own login name and password.
- Research with Human Subjects (Long Island University)
- The Office of Sponsored Research
has a webpage about
Human Subjects Research
at Long Island University.
The Guidelines
for Investigators includes the consent forms for the subjects. The
forms page has links to the
Human Subjects Application
("Application for Review of Research Involving Human Subjects") to obtain permission
from the university to conduct the research, the
Exempt Application
("Application For Exempt Category Review"), and the
Annual Review Form
("Annual Review/Renewal Application"). All three are in Microsoft Word format.
- SPIN: Sponsored Program Information Network (InfoEd)
- Consolidates information about funding opportunities
for research, scholarship, programs, residencies, conferences, creative
projects and more in order to help users make comparisons between a
multitude of programs and their sponsors and therefore pick the best
prospects for their funding applications. Made available by the
LIU Office of Sponsored Research.
For more information or to obtain a password to access
this database from off-campus, contact Christopher P. Egan at (516) 299-2712.
- Turnitin (iParadigms)
- Compares submitted student papers against a database of websites,
journal articles, and other student papers to determine which passages, if any,
have been plagiarized and from which sources. Also includes features for class
assignments, peer review, and grading.
(More information about Turnitin and setting up an account.)
- Ulrich's
Periodicals Directory (ProQuest)
- Provides detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on
serials, consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, monographic series,
newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, and many other periodicals
around the world. It covers all subjects of regular and irregular publications that are circulated free
of charge or by paid subscription. Includes
publication information, whether the periodical is referreed, where it is indexed,
online availability or website, and more
(more information).
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
NOVEL (New York Online Virtual
Electronic Library) is a statewide virtual library provided free to
the public by the New York State Library.
It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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