Another bunch of new electronic resources are available to the Temple community.

—Books 24×7: Online library of approximately 5,000 titles on information technology topics. Users can annotate books and create personal bookshelves of favorite titles.

—Gale Ready Reference Shelf: Provides integrated access to over 300,000 entries culled from the databases of fourteen of Gale’s most popular reference directories:

• Directories in Print
• Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
• Encyclopedia of American Religions
• Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.
• Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations
• Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations
• Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
• Gale Directory of Databases
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
• Newsletters in Print
• Publishers Directory
• Research Centers Directory
• International Research Centers Directory
• Government Research Centers Directory

—Women Writers Online: Hundreds of texts written by women between 1400 to 1850. All of these texts can be browsed, searched, and analysed using tools which provide access to the full SGML encoding.

—Justis (UK Legal Texts): Justis provides online access to the following:

English Reports: “The English Reports brings together all the important English case reports from 1220 until 1873, just after the official Law Reports were published for the first time.”

UK Statutes: “Justis UK Statutes contains all Acts of Parliament for England, Wales and Scotland dating back to the Magna Carta (1235). The full text of the legislation, including repealed Acts, is provided as originally enacted.”

—Inspec Archive: (Physics, Computing, Electronics, 1884-present). Covers all aspects of these subjects, in approximately 4,200 journals and 1,000 conferences as well as books, reports and dissertations. (Updated weekly). Now includes the Inspec Archive. Including over 800,000 records, the backfile covers the literature of physics, electrical engineering, and computing from 1884-1968. Corresponds to the print General Science Abstracts.

—Engineering Index Backfile: This is the electronic version of The Engineering Index, the world’s premier link to the engineering literature. The database adds about 500,000 records yearly. Compendex covers over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences, and reports. All areas of engineering are represented. Approximately 22% of the database is conference literature, and 90% of the source documents are in English. About half the citations (from 2,000 journals and conferences) include abstracts and indexing. (Updated weekly) The new backfile contents covers the engineering literature from 1884-1968.

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(Descriptions are all taken from our database descriptions page.)

–Derik A Badman