Alkek Library News

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Here is the second half of an alphabetical list of databases added to the collection over the past year. To find these databases again, click the appropriate letter from the aphabetical list. The databases will also be listed under the subject heading most related to the content of the database:
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IEEE/IET Electronic Library from IEEE The IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) provides access to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering, electronics and computer science literature, featuring journals and conference proceedings from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Current IEEE standards are also included. Backfile goes to 1988, plus select content back to 1950.

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance from EBSCO The International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance is a multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool for theater students, educators and professionals. Since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text from ProQuest International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text covers a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Articles examine the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. You can find articles on a diverse array of musical genres, from the liturgical chants of medieval monks to the eclectic sounds of contemporary alternative rock musicians.

LexisNexis Primary Sources in African American History from LexisNexis This database contains materials from the colonial period to the present day, including government documents, images, autobiographies, contemporary accounts, manuscripts, laws, court cases, political cartoons, and the full texts of public speeches made by prominent African Americans.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts from CSA LLBA provides abstracts to the world's published literature on the nature, use, and teaching of language. It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Includes citations to book reviews appearing in serials abstracted for the print Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts.

Literature Online (LION) from ProQuest Literature Online (LION) is a searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 192 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. The Poets On Screen Library contains 839 clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work.

MedicLatina from EBSCO MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

MEDLINE with Full Text from EBSCO Indexes and abstracts articles approximately 4,800 current biomedical journals around the world, dating as far back as 1965. Full text is available for approximately one quarter of the indexed titles.

Middle Search Plus from EBSCO Special Note: This resource is not appropriate for college level research and is included primarily for the use of education majors.Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Natural & Alternative Treatments from Ebsco Natural & Alternative Treatments is a complementary and alternative medicine database designed specifically for the consumer-health researcher. The database contains articles on medical conditions, presenting the alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on alternative therapies, herbs and supplements, functional foods, and drug/herb/supplement interactions. The articles in the database are based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of scientific evidence. The evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information.

OAIster from University of Michigan OAIster is a catalog of digital resources stored in over 700 open access repositories all over the world. Digital resources in these repositories include items such as digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files (e.g., wav, mp3), images (e.g., tiff, gif), movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime), and datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files).

Oxford Scholarship Online from Oxford University Press Philosophy titles from Oxford University Press.

Play Index from H. W. Wilson Play Index allows searching for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type. It includes plays published as single volumes and also plays in anthologies and collections. Full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations are provided.

Primary Search from EBSCO Special Note: This resource is not appropriate for college level research and is included primarily for the use of education majors. Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection from EBSCO This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Religion & Philosophy Collection from EBSCO This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

rhizome.org from rhizome.org rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media art community. Its programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. The rhizome site features ArtBase, an online archive of new media art including some 1,600 projects, and TextBase contains the discussion and critical writing that posted on Rhizome's mailing lists since 1996. Users may set up individual accounts at the site to subscribe to Rhizome's email lists, to browse recently added content, to post to rhizome email lists, or to submit projects to the ArtBase.

SRDS Media Solutions from SRDS Online collection of SRDS publications Consumer Magazine Advertising Source, Newspaper Advertising Source, Radio Advertising Source, Out-of-Home Advertising Source, Interactive Advertising Source, and TV and Cable Source.

Texas Reference Center from EBSCO Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson and Sam Houston. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. This EBSCOhost database is updated weekly.

Twentieth-Century Drama from Chadwyck-Healey When complete, Twentieth-Century Drama will contain 2,500 plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present. Release Four includes more than 1,050 plays by authors such as Ama Ata Aidoo, Maxwell Anderson, Ed Bullins, Noël Coward, Susan Glaspell, John Godber, Beth Henley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Eduardo Machado, John Osborne, Sean O’Casey, Terence Rattigan, Bernard Shaw, Derek Walcott, and August Wilson.

Women & Social Movements from Alexander Street Press Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000, this database contains more than 25,000 pages of documents pertaining to Women and Social Movements, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. Women's History, Teaching Tools with lesson ideas and document-based questions related to the website's document projects, and 67 document projects that provide more than 1,900 documents, approximately 740 images, and over 600 links to other websites.

New Databases

Here is an alphabetical list of databases added to the collection over the past year. To find these databases again, click the appropriate letter from the aphabetical list. The databases will also be listed under the subject heading most related to the content of the database:

A-H

Accounting Research Manager (Audit Public Version) from CCH
Accounting Research Manager provides links to primary source documents issued by the following agencies/organizations: Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Emerging Issues Tax Force (EITF), International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), General Accounting Office (GAO), Office of Management and Budgets authoritative and proposal-stage literature (OMB). The database also includes proposal-stage literature plus e in-depth interpretations from financial reporting experts.


Alt-HealthWatch from EBSCO
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries an immediate resource of full text articles from more than 170 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters (most from 1990 to the present), plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.


Alternative Press Index Archive from Firstsearch
Index of journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change 1969-1990. Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.


ARTstor from ARTstor
ARTstor is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data.The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images; by 2006 it is expected to contain 500,000. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.\


ATLA Religion with ATLA Serials
from Firstsearch
Index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion.


Bibliography of Native North Americans from EBSCO
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.


Book Index with Reviews from EBSCO
Complimentary subscription, expires on 6/30/07. Book Index with Reviews (BIR) provides information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats, including large print, books on tape, etc. Fiction and non-fiction titles for juvenile and adult audiences are included in the database, in all genres. The product contains over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews from sources such as Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others.


Book Review Index from Gale
A comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. Covers 1965 to the present.


Business Source Complete from EBSCO
Provides full text 3,787 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals


Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities from Cabell Publishing
Cabell’s directories identify major journals in Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, Marketing, Psychology, and Curriculum & Methods. Journal information includes contact information, manuscript topics, submission guidelines, review process, acceptance rate, and circulation information.


Campus Research from Thomson West
Includes decisions and case law from all state and federal courts; laws from all state and federal statutes; federal regulations; American Law Reports; American Jurisprudence 2d.; legal materials from Europe; law review and legal journal articles


CINAHL Plus With Full Text from EBSCO
Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health. Covers nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and allied health disciplines. Besides journals, the database indexes health care books, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheets. Searchable cited references for more than 990 journals are included. Full text is available for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Indexing and full text goes back to 1937.


Consumer Health Complete from Ebsco
Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Topics covered include aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. The database contains the full text of approx. 176 health reference books and encyclopedias as well as thousands of evidence-based health reports. Also included is a collection of 500 medical-related images from Nucleus Medical Art. The Medical Image Collection is accessible via the “Medical Images & Diagrams” icon in the database.

CQ Researcher from CQ Press
In-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy from 1960 - Present. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. Reports include an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.


CQ Weekly from CQ Press
In-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrap up the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes dating back to 1983.


Criminal Justice Abstracts from CSA
Criminal Justice Abstracts contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. The database covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.


Early English Books Online
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.


ECONOMIA Y NEGOCIOS from EBSCO
ECONOMIA Y NEGOCIOS is produced in Peru by ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados), the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish-speaking world. This Spanish language database, which focuses on business and economics, consists of more than 60,000 bibliographic records. Coverage dates back to the early 1980s and includes over 200 periodicals published in Latin America and Spain.


eLibrary Curriculum from
eLibrary Curriculum Edition is not appropriate for college level research and is included primarily for the use of education majors. It is a collection of curriculum and reference resources designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries. It includes approx. 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts, as well as thousands of pictures, maps, educator-approved websites.


Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics from Elsevier
The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics is an online version of a 14-volume encyclopedia that exploits the multimedia potential of the online environment, offering the full text of over 3,000 articles and 39,000 references; rich multimedia through video and audio; basic and advanced searching across the whole work or sections; and extensive internal and external cross-referencing and linking.


HAPI Online from UCLA
HAPI Online, the Web version of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index, combines current information about Latin America with in-depth coverage spanning more than thirty years, from 1970 to the present. HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Many of the citations are linked to full text.


Humanities International Complete from EBSCO
Produced by Whitston Publishing, this database includes all data from Humanities International Index plus the full text for about one third of the journals. Major subject areas include literature, philosophy, the arts, history, culture and multi-disciplinary humanities titles, with a special emphasis on literature and the literary arts. Title coverage goes back as far as 1929.

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