On-Demand Instruction Make an appointment with a reference librarian or ETS staff member to learn to use specific resources. A selected list follows. To schedule a consultation on any of them, simply contact us in one of the ways described at the beginning of the brochure, and a librarian will contact you to set up a time. Remember, too, that, as described at the beginning of this brochure, you also may request instruction on any other resources held by Butler Reference or the Electronic Text Service. Learn how to use this large full-text database of French texts from the 13th to 20th centuries, an indispensable tool for linguists, literary scholars, and historians.
Session includes a look at the Social Science Citation Index.
Learn the tricks of using them to identify quickly the range of books, journals, manuscripts and other media relating to a given topic. The essential catalog of English publications from 1473 to 1800. Learn advanced search techniques for locating English and American material from the 15th through 18th centuries. The single most important electronic source for scholarly writing on Islam and the Muslim world, with coverage of research since 1906. Understanding the general principles of database searching is your key to mastering quickly the sometimes confusing array of electronic resources that confront the modern researcher.