Friday, April 18, 2008

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music has more than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world.

• The full-text of the 10-volume print encyclopedia (more than 700 articles) searchable all together for the first time
• Associated audio examples
• Musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings
• Song texts and score examples
• Charts and maps of world regions

American Civil War Research Database

This is an online resource for researching the individuals, regiments and battles of the American Civil War.

Teacher Reference Center

Teacher Reference Center indexes over 260 titles from the teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.

Greenfile

Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Greenfile provides abstracts and indexing to over 600 journal titles, drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Some full text is included.

Oxford Reference Online Premium

The Premium Collection includes over 175 titles, updated regularly, in the Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index

Covers articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals. Disciplines surveyed include graphic design, fashion and clothing, furniture, interior design, architecture, web design, computer-aided design, garden design, and more.