Finding Funding Challenge Winter Book Bingo Now Available Featured Resource: Special Collections Finding Aids Manuscript material held by Raymond H. Fogler Library’s Special Collections Department covers a wide range of subjects reflecting historical events, business, education, arts, and sciences. This gallery provides downloadable finding aids for the department’s largest collections, those where it seemed particularly valuable for […]

Help Planning Your Spring Courses Getting Started with QGIS Winter Book Bingo Now Available Featured Resource: EBook Central ProQuest’s Academic Complete database on the EBook Central platform is a collection of more than 130,000 scholarly ebooks from leading publishers, including university presses. All titles in Academic Complete are available to University of Maine System users for online […]

Wabanaki Authors Book List Getting Started with QGIS Fogler Library Hours after Thanksgiving Break Featured Resource: ACM Digital Library The ACM Digital Library provides publications from the Association for Computing Machinery: all ACM journals and magazines, including an archive from the 1950’s forward (where available); and all SIG (special interest group) conference proceedings and newsletters. It also […]

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New University of Maine Finding Aids Supervised Machine Learning Workshop Reference Librarian Availability after Thanksgiving Featured Resource: Roper iPoll The Roper iPoll archives can be useful in analyzing social trends based on opinion polling. Includes the iPoll Databank, Presidential Approval Ratings and U.S. Elections data, and 17,000 international and U.S. datasets. RoperExpress allows on-demand download of data and RoperExplorer […]

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Friend, Enemy, or Frenemy? A News Literacy Challenge SciFinder-n Now Available University of Maine COVID-19 Community Archive Hot Topics: Elections Featured Resource: BIOSIS Previews Worldwide in scope, BIOSIS Previews, the premier database in the biological sciences, indexes the literature of the biological and biomedical sciences. Subject coverage includes agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, botany, ecology, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. […]

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