How to Find Microforms

Finding Microforms

•  In the online catalog search keywords or browse titles, while limiting the material to "microforms".

• Located on the first floor of Bostock Library, the Microforms Department houses and services back files of newspapers and most of the library's microform materials. 

• A list of Microfilm Titles housed in Bostock Library and their locations can be found online or at the Bostock Help Desk.  There are three main stacks areas: the cabinets on the first floor of Bostock and several shelves near the elevators on the second floor of Bostock are open for patron use, as well as titles which need to be retrieved by a staff member.  For retrieval of these titles, fill out the online request form and a staff member will retrieve your materials for you. Pick-up times are at 9am, 11am, 1pm, and 3pm on weekdays.  Evenings and weekend retrieval is dependent upon adequate staffing.

Microform Readers

• Readers for microfilm, microfiche, and micro-opaque cards are located on the first floor of Bostock Library.

• Several reader/printers are available for making paper copies from microfiche or microfilm.  There is also one scanner which, in addition to making paper copies, had the capability of burning files to a CD or saving them on a flash/thumb drive.  Copies of microfiche can also be made; please ask the Microforms staff for assistance.

Online Microform Finding Aids

• Adam Matthew Publications - Links to the film collections by Adam Matthew.
• Alternative Press Index, Alternative Press Index Archive - Indexes alternative, radical and left publications. The index covers 1990 - present, the archive covers 1963 - 1976.
• American Periodicals Series Online, 1749-1900 - Full text images of popular American newspaper, professional journals and magazines from 1740-1900.
• Archive of Americana - Searches all Readex collections that we have access to (ie. Early American Imprints I & II, America's Historical Newspapers (Early American Newspapers, Series I, II, & III), American State Papers, and the Serial Set).
• Brazil's Popular Groups - A microfilm collection of pamphlets, serials and posters dating from 1966.  Reel guides online.
• Canadian Annuals on Microfiche - (Call Number: S9628)  This collection is part of the
  CIHM / ICMH microfiche series, also known as Pre-1900 Canadiana and Early Canadiana Research Collection.  Reproduces Canadian almanacs, annual reports, and directories; as well as proceedings, transactions, and yearbooks.  Collection includes nearly 3,500 titles.
• Early American Imprints I - A definitive resource for research on 17th and 18th century American history and life; 1639-1800.
• Early American Imprints II - Based on the  Shaw-Shoemaker bibliographer, it provides full text access to all US books, pamphlets and broadsides published from 1801-1817.
• Early English Books Online - Reproduces over 125,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in English between 1475 and 1700. Topics include philosophy, religion, science, politics, history, poetry, prose, drama, and music.
• English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) - lists over 460,000 items and is intended as a comprehensive international union catalog of items printed before 1801, including early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera. It contains entries for items issued in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States.
• ERIC - Internet resource that contains more than 1.2 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles. Includes information in the categories: about ERIC, AskERIC, ERIC Digests, other tools and information, publications.
• ERIC (CSA) - Assembled by the U.S. Department of Education. An index with abstracts to the journal and report literature of the field of education (all levels). Also contains records for papers read at conferences, curriculum guides and policy documents, etc.
• ERIC (EBSCOhost) - Assembled by the U.S. Department of Education. Corresponds to the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) [journal literature], and Resources in Education (RIE) [report literature].
• ERIC (additional link) - Searchable by ERIC number.
• Evans Digital Edition - Evans Digital is the digitized version of the Evans microform set. The books and pamphlets available here were published in America between 1639 - 1785 (with more content being digitized monthly). You can search these primary documents by keyword in the indexes (title, subject, etc.) or in the full text of the documents. Or browse by genre, subject, author, place of publication or language.
• Goldsmiths-Kress Library of Economic Literature Guide - This consolidated guide serves as the primary access tool to the Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature microfilm collection.
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (19th Century)
• InfoTrac OneFile - OneFile provides an extensive collection of journals, newspapers, magazines, and newswires. OneFile includes all the indexing and full text articles available in Expanded Academic Index, Computer Database, Health Reference Center, and LegalTrac, as well as other full text articles not included in those databases.
• Lexis Nexis Academic wiki - Included are guides to finding specific types of information in the Lexis Nexis database, such as foreign language news, editorials and op-ed pieces, and obituaries.
• LGBT Life with Full Text - Indexes and provides full text of newspapers, academic journals, newsletters and magazines for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues.
• North American Slave Narratives - A collection of books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
• Noticias Financieras - provides fulltext, real-time financial and business news from Latin America.
• Oxford Reference Online: History - now includes the History of black people in the British Isles from Roman times to the present day.
• Scholarly Resources, Inc. - Guides from Scholarly Resources that are currently available online, including many guides to our titles.
• Twentieth Century Latin American Pamphlets - Part 1: Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)
  
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