Day: June 23, 2008

Fellowship Winners Announced

Posted on by Lee Anne Titangos

The Bancroft Library is pleased to announce the winners of the following fellowships for the 2008-2009 academic year:

The Bancroft Library Study Award
Audrey Clark
"The Asian American Avant-Garde: Internationalist Aspirations in Early Asian American Literature"

William Wagner
"Reading, Writing, and Rambling: The Literary Culture of Travel in Antebellum America"

Gunther Barth Fellowship
Richard Welker
"The Culture of Agrarian Capitalism: Farmers, Neighbors, and Economic Relationships in Nineteenth Century California"

Reese Fellowship
Andrina Tran
"Resurrecting the Forgotten Cookbook"

New database: Academic Search Complete

Posted on by Brian Quigley

UC campuses now have access to Academic Search Complete, a new multi-disciplinary database with full-text content in the arts, social sciences, humanities, and sciences. Covering content from journals, magazines, and other publications, this database is well-suited to general undergraduate research in most fields.

Sample search results screen from Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete will replace Gale's Expanded Academic ASAP. Access to Expanded Academic ASAP will continue to run in parallel with this new database through June 30, 2008. After that time, access to Expanded Academic ASAP will be discontinued.

The Engineering Library has created two video tutorials to help you learn about Academic Search Complete: