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Guides to Microforms
Guides to Microforms brings Web searchability to the guides for 287 of the most popular microform collections from University Publications of America (UPA). The innovative Guides to Microforms is a comprehensive system for researching non-print archival manuscripts in microform. It empowers researchers, so they can identify the primary sources they need more quickly, thoroughly, and precisely than ever before.See Demand for Microforms Soar
With Guides to Microforms, your library's microform collections will be used more often by more researchers-from undergraduates to faculty and other scholars. The service enhances researchers' ability to zero in on the documentary riches of many of the most valuable microform publications available in a variety of disciplines. Sharing of microform resources among libraries has never been easier. By utilizing the popularity and connectivity of the World Wide Web, you can offer access to users throughout your academic community-right at their own computers as well as in the library.Discover Myriad Opportunities for New Research
Guides to Microforms guides users to hundreds of thousands of primary source documents in such fields as African American studies, southern history, political history, women's studies, military history and war, immigration, labor studies, Native American studies, international relations, law and jurisprudence, and more.Quickly Search Across Many Titles to Get the Full Picture
By making the finding aids to microforms available on the Web, Guides to Microforms provides valuable new research capabilities:- No more searching through multiple printed guides to find documents! Using keywords, you can search many different guides at once to identify relevant primary sources in more than one microform collection. Researchers get hits on titles they would never have thought of reviewing-or did not even know about. For example, you'll find information on violence against civil rights workers in President John F. Kennedy's Office Files, 1961-1963, in addition to more obvious sources such as Papers of the NAACP.
- Instantly broaden or narrow your search with Boolean operators. Group multiple subjects or time periods in a single search to pinpoint exactly what you need.
- Browse mode lets you scan through guides to get the big picture or help frame your research. As in the guide's print edition, you can look at introductory material such as editorial notes and content summary... use the indexes to review the names of principal correspondents, cases cited, and subjects covered... or review the contents of specific reels within the guide.
- A notation tells users whether the library owns a specific microform title and directs them to the location within the library where it is available. (This feature becomes part of the service in late 1999.)
- Download and print sections of the guide, or paste excerpts into your own document.
- An intuitive interface that is simple enough for novices but offers the sophisticated features experts demand. Guides to Microforms gives students the opportunity to access research materials in a medium they know and love-the Web.
Access from Offices, Dorms, and Beyond
Guides to Microforms brings the wealth of material in scores of research collections to a wider audience in more locations than ever before. Because the service is Web-based, its use is not confined to a few work stations within a university's library system. You can log on from virtually anywhere on campus.
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Contact your LexisNexis sales representative, call us at (800) 638-8380 or email us at academicinfo@lexisnexis.com. Money-saving offers include an annual volume discount plan, standing order discounts and deferred payment options.
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