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 two main stacks areas: the cabinets on the first floor and the cabinets on the lower level of Bostock Library.

Microform Readers

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

Online Microform Finding Aids

• Academic OneFile - Provides access to some 11,000 journals with full-text articles from more than 4,000 peer-reviewed journals and reference sources worldwide.
• Adam Matthew Publications - Links to the film collections by Adam Matthew.
• Africa-Wide NiPAD - Provides multi-disciplinary coverage about African including politics, history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues, anthropology, natural history, literature, language, law, music and much more.
• 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.
• 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.Also here.
• 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 (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)
• 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.
• 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)