• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
      • Contemporary Authors
      • The Oxford Companion to American Literature
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland
      • Maryland: Biographical Dictionary
      • Maryland: A Guide to the Old Line State
      • Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State
    
    
• Books in the main collection & special collections (Maryland, Special Maryland, & Maryland Reference):
  
  
  • Subject search, uses Library of Congress subject headings; start with these major headings and then skim the subheadings, e.g.:
    
    
    • American literature -- Maryland
    • Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
    • Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
    • Kent County Md
      
      
  • keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc., e.g.:
    
    
    • Shoremen
    • Watermen
      
      
  • Author search, e.g.:
    
    
    • Warner, William W.
  
  

• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
  • Other libraries:
    
    
    • U of MD libraries
    • U of DE
    • Library of Congress
      
      
  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of catalogued books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by academic libraries worldwide
      
      
  • For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
    • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

• Academic Search Premier
  • 4,500+ general and academic journals
  • coverage 1985+
  • mostly full-text
    
    
• America: History and Life
  • the professional index for US and Canadian history
  • historical coverage of the US and Canada from prehistory to the present
  • indexes 2,000+ scholarly journals
  • abstracts; some links to full-text
  • coverage from 1954+
    
    
• JSTOR
  • 440+ scholarly journals
  • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
  • full-text
    
    
• Project MUSE
  • 250+ scholarly journals
  • coverage from 1983+
  • mostly full-text
  
  
• WilsonWeb
  • 3,500+ general and academic journals
  • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
  • 1,750 journals are full-text
    
    
• Check journal titles in Journal Finder, the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  
  
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• Archives of Maryland Online
• Maryland Manual On-Line
• Maryland State Archives
• SAILOR: Maryland's Public Information Network
  • Famous Marylanders : writers, poets, editors, newspaperpersons

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• Kent County News
  • last two years in paper
  • from 1946-2003 on microfilm
    
    
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • 5,900+ national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
  • full-text
  • search Washington Post full-text from 1977+
    
    
• New York Times (1851-2001) and The Washington Post (1877-1990)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form

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• African American Heritage Sites of the Lower Shore
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
• Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture
• Google Directory's Authors
• Yahoo! Directory's Authors
  

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• Hacker Online
  • formatting examples