The construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is in progress, would disturb sacred burial grounds and impact the water rights of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Extensive protests at the site have made national news.
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Reference Services at Fogler Library has published a new hot topic guide for the upcoming election season. The guide includes information about voting in Maine, registering to vote, and the history of elections. Information about presidential candidates, local races, and a section on conducting political research and analysis also included.
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Throughout the month of September, Fogler Library is displaying resources available for researching the news. You’ll find a physical display in the hallway between the front entrance and the Information Commons.
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Ever wonder what’s in the archive? A new section of DigitalCommons@UMaine allows for searching and browsing the contents of the Special Collections Department’s largest manuscript collections which include university records and historic materials related to Maine business, education, arts, politics, and more.
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Looking for some light reading? Fiction and non-fiction e-books and audio books are ready to download to your device – all for free from the Maine InfoNet Download Library. Mystery, history, sci-fi, biography, and more are just a few clicks away. New titles added continually.
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The peer-reviewed, open-access series now published by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maine is dedicated to research in the archaeology and ethnohistory of western South America. Focused on precolumbian times, it also includes articles on the colonial period that enhance understanding of indigenous cultures before 1492. The 2016 addition (vol 12) is […]
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Patrons of Fogler Library can now gain access to the Data Citation Index, which provides a single access point to over two million data studies and data sets across the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. According to the Data Citation Index website, the database “[enables] users to gain perspective that is lost when data […]
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The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month. The archive preserves the work of the world’s greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern […]
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Nursing Reference Center is an evidence-based, full text resource supporting clinical care. It also includes information to support cultural competence, continuing education (CE) modules for practicing nurses, social workers, and allied health professionals; information on research instruments, and low literacy patient education handouts (English and Spanish). — Added:11/6/2015
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History graduate student Edward Andrew Kobylarz digitized and transcribed a wide selection of documents from the Paul W. Bean Collection as a part of a summer internship in Fogler Library’s Special Collections Department. Color scans and searchable text allow researchers a new way to access letters, pamphlets and other documents that provide a glimpse of […]
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