A number of new databases have been added to the libraries’ collection. Below are links to the resources and descriptions from our website. [text by publishers]
—African-American Newspapers: 19th Century: Part 9: This enormous collection of African American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. They also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience. This is an additional module that covers The Christian Recorder, Jan. 1883-Dec. 1887.
—Index Islamicus: The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have tradionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover 1906 to the present.
—Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts: LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management. Coverage begins in the mid-1960s.
—MasterFile Premier: Access granted from AccessPA, this is a public library version of Academic Search Premier(ASP). It includes 729 unique full-text titles not covered in ASP.
—PAIS International and PAIS Archive: PAIS indexes national and international public policy information from journal articles, books, conference research reports, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International covers materials from 1972 onward, while the Archive extends coverage back to 1915. PAIS contains some foreign language material but all index entries and abstracts are in English. Since PAIS tends to cover topics that are, have been or may become the focus of legislation it is particularly germane for students in the departments or schools of business administration, history, economics, law, political science, social administration, criminal justice, sociology and geography and urban studies, American studies and, African American studies. PAIS is a good choice if peer reviewed journals and or primary sources are needed to fulfill research requirements. [text by Susan Golding]
—Physical Education Index: Since 1970 Physical Education Index has been covering peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications relevant to the field of physical education. Physical Education Index provides citation information and abstracts to journal articles about physical education and related disciplines (sports, sports medicine, dance, coaching, fitness, motor learning, etc.) from 303 core scholarly journals and numerous other publications. (Updated monthly)
—Scopus:
(This is a year-long trial.) Scopus is an abstracting and indexing database covering over 14,000 titles in the scientific, technical, medical and social science literature. Coverage extends as far back as 1966. Cited references are searchable from 1996 onward. Subject Areas covered by Scopus: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering: 4,500 titles; Life and Health Sciences: 5,900 titles (100% Medline coverage); Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics: 2,700 titles; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences: 2,500 titles; General Sciences: 50 titles.
—Worldwide Political Science Abstracts: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. It currently monitors approximately 1,500+ titles for coverage, of which 67% are published outside the United States.