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Discovering Discover
Overview of what Discover is, when, why, and how to use it.
Discover is a service that acts like a search engine of many of the Blume Library's resources, including books and eBooks, background articles, journal articles, streaming video, and government information. The Basic search screen default limit is set to items Available in the Library Collection.
Discover - Advanced Search Screen
Discover = EBSCO Discovery Service = EDS
Why & When to Use Discover
Starting research on a topic new to you or to your students
Topic is interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary
Uncertain about which library databases will retrieve the desired information
Especially helpful for undergraduates, but helpful for faculty & graduate students, too
records for books, DVDs, CDs, government documents and information, selected documents from other sources records and links to full-text for eBooks, government information, selected online videos
Provides journal information including acceptance rates, review type and time to review, journal citation metrics like Journal Impact Factor and Cabells Classification Index (CCI), publication model (traditional or types of open access), journal editors and contact information.
Our subscription provides access to accounting, business, and economics titles.
Dissertations written by St. Mary's University doctoral students. Graduating doctoral students must upload an electronic copy of their dissertations to Proquest after graduate school approval and before the graduation deadline. Also included a few master's theses.
Search across the full text of millions of books. Most books are not available full text. "Get the Book" links to WorldCat to see the libraries that own the book. Request books that our libraries don't own using Interlibrary Loan.
Focuses on law journals, case law, and government documents. Some United States collections include the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and parts of the Serial Set. Other notable collections offered are the US state collections, Canon law materials, international treaties and agreements, English legal materials, and United Nations legal materials.
US Federal Census records from 1790-1930 and over 25,000 genealogical books on local history, genealogy, and primary source materials. Covers 50 states and Canada, England, and Ireland.
Includes homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by federal, state and local government agencies, international governments and institutions, research institutions, universities, and think tanks. To search the full collection from an off-campus location, students and faculty will need individual research accounts, which can be requested directly from HDSL. Be sure to use your St. Mary's University email account.
Materials to help with job preparation, career advancement, career changes, and re-entry into the workforce. Includes SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT test prep, and other certification, licensing, and aptitude tests. Note: You need to create a free user account.
Analysis of stocks and mutual funds include analysts' recommendations; users may generate reports and analyze customized portfolios. Includes stock, mutual fund, and ETF screeners.
"Aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions." Note: slow to load; slow to retrieve results
Open Library is a partnership of libraries to offer interlibrary loan of eBooks directly to library patrons. Account holders can borrow eBooks from the site. St. Mary's University is a participant in the Open Library initiative. Create an account to start using Open Library. Take a look at the Help page for more information.
A historical dictionary that is the accepted authority on the English language as an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.
Open access index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Includes citations to journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics.
Citation-only database, freely available to search. Search by keyword, author, title, or UMI publication number. Users have the option to purchase dissertations in various format, including PDF download.
Each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field, and all entries and substantive updates are refereed by members of a distinguished Editorial Board.
Provides digital access to large-scale maps of Texas towns and cities. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years.
Full text of the Wall Street Journal. Coverage 1984 to the present. Searchable. Indexing includes subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas.
A freely accessible database that showcases hundreds of women who worked behind-the-scenes in the silent film industry as directors, producers, editors, and more. It features career profiles on each pioneer, longer overview essays on national cinemas and occupations, still and moving images, and archival and bibliographic resource materials.
Subscription interface. Choose this version if you want to use advanced searching techniques, including sorting by number of libraries who own an item. WorldCat provides information on the holdings of the world's libraries. The public version, designed for most users, is available online at worldcat.org and on the databases list.