Friday, August 25, 2006
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Produced by UCLA, HAPI is a multi-subject index to periodical literature on Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos living in the United States. HAPI indexes over 250,000 article citations from 1970-present, including some full-text.
iPoll
iPoll, produced by the Roper Center, is an archive of public opinion poll data, including downloadable datasets. The database features responses to nearly 500,000 opinion questions from 1935 to the present.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Say goodbye to...
- International Abstracts in Operations Research- cancelled as of January 2007
- ITER : Middle Ages Renaissance
- EIU Newsletters- Gelman continues to subscribe and increased country coverage for the EIU Country Studies
- EIS Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
- Periodical Contents Index (PCI)
- NTIS
- Bowker Books in Print
- CSA Biological Science Collection- cancelled as of January 2007
- DRI/Global Insight
Monday, August 21, 2006
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
EEBO contains images of over 100,000 books published in English since 1475. Based on Pollard & Redgrave's "Short Title Catalogue (1475-1640)" and Wing's "Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700)," plus revised editions and supplements. Subjects covered include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, math, and science. Texts continue to be added to the online version as they are scanned from the microfilm.
Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000
Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000 is a collection of full-text primary materials documenting various movements and events in the history of women's social reform activities. Sources include documents, images, and books, and are organized around topical document projects.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories offers a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Provides more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories from 1840 to the present, with particular focus on the years 1890-1920. Much of the material is previously unpublished.
Access World News
Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 700 international sources. Each newspaper or wire service provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including specific information about local companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and the people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
U.S. Newspapers are not included.
U.S. Newspapers are not included.
INSPEC changes platform
INSPEC, a database from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), has changed platforms from OVID to Elsevier Engineering Village, joining Compendex. Engineering Village allows users to search these two core engineering resources separately or together.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
International Index to Film Periodicals
International Index to Film Periodicals is a bibliographical index offering in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to present.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full-Text
The International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance™ represents a comprehensive multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool available to theater students, educators and professionals. Initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research and, since 1984, created by the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College, this database comprises 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. Full-text is provided from over 100 of the journals indexed and for more than 100 of the books.
GLBT Life
GLBT Life® is the definitive index to the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues. This database contains indexing and abstracts for more than 120 GLBT-specific core periodicals and over 230 GLBT-specific core books and reference works, as well as full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant GLBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers and dozens of full text monographs. The product also contains data mined from over 40 priority periodicals and over 1,700 select titles.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Handbooks in Economics
GLS now has the following Economics Handbooks online via Elsevier:
- Handbook of Agricultural Economics
- Handbook of Computational Economics
- Handbook of Defense Economics
- Handbook of Development Economics
- Handbook of Econometrics
- Handbook of Environmental Economics
- Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications
- Handbook of Health Economics
- Handbook of Income Distribution
- Handbook of Industrial Organization
- Handbook of International Economics
- Handbook of Labor Economics
- Handbook of Macroeconomics
- Handbook of Mathematical Economics
- Handbook of Monetary Economics
- Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics
- Handbook of Population and Family Economics
- Handbook of Public Economics
- Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
- Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare
Global Development Finance Online
This database provides direct access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. These data run from 1970 to 2014, where available.
Regional Business News
Regional Business News provides full text coverage for regional business publications, including of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States . This title is updated daily and is available on ALADIN and titles are activated in SFX.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
World Bank E-Library
A full-text collection of over 4,000 ebooks, working papers, and other publications - including the PDF version of World Development Indicators - published by the World Bank.
The resources in the World Bank E-Library are searchable by title, abstract, and full-text, or browsable by geographic region. The documents include information on:
The resources in the World Bank E-Library are searchable by title, abstract, and full-text, or browsable by geographic region. The documents include information on:
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Banking, Finance, and Investment
- Business Procurement
- Commodities, Pricing, and Trade
- Current Affairs
- Data Publication
- DevelopmentEconomics
- Economics (General)
- Education and Training
- Energy,Industry, and Mining
- Environment and Pollution Prevention
- Gender
- Globalization
- Governance, Civil Society, and Participation
- Health, Nutrition,and Population
- Infrastructure, Transport, and Urban Development
- Labor and Income
- Legal and Judicial Issues
- Poverty
- Private Sector
- Public Policy
- Social and Cultural Issues
- Technology and Telecommunications
- Water Supply and Sanitation
- World Bank
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Business Source Premier
Complementing our ABI/Inform subscription, Business Source Premier provides another resource for indexing and full-text access to business and business-related articles and reports. Covering a full range of business topics with full-text for more than 8,800 serials, including over 1,100 peer review business journals. BSP also includes backfile full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Examples include:
This title is available on ALADIN and titles are activated in SFX.
- Harvard Business Review back to 1922
- Academy of Management Journal to 1958
- Accounting Review to 1926
- Administrative Science Quarterly to 1956
- California Management Review to 1958
- Industrial & Labor Relations Review to 1947
- Journal of Accounting Research to 1963
- Journal of Finance to 1946
- Journal of Marketing to 1936
- Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) to 1964
- Management Science to 1954
- Operations Research to 1956
This title is available on ALADIN and titles are activated in SFX.
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