The 5 volume Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by H. James Birx and available in the Paley Reference stacks (GN11 .E63 2006), is now also available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. The Encyclopedia features “over 1000 entries that focus on topics in physical/ biological anthropology, archaeology, cultural/social anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology.” All articles conclude with a short bibliography with suggestions for further reading; many articles also include a sidebar. Articles are available as PDF files, which provide an exact reproduction of pages from the print edition, or as e-books displayed on a webpage. An eTable of Contents, an eBook Index, and a List of Illustrations are available on the main search page of the Encyclopedia. “The contributions are authored by 300 internationally renowned experts, professors, and scholars from some of the most distinguished universities, institutes and museums in the world. Special attention is given to: hominid evolution, primate behavior, genetics, ancient civilizations, cross-cultural studies, social theories, and the value of human language for symbolic communication.” All databases are listed in the A-Z database listing linked from the Temple University Libraries website. Please contact me if you have any questions. If you would like to have the Gale Virtual Reference Library / Encyclopedia of Anthropology and other social science databases demonstrated to a class, please call me at 215-204-4581 or email me to set a date for a Library User Education class. Gregory McKinney

I am delighted to be able to announce that the Library has added a market research reports database to our subscriptions. The database is MarketResearch.com Academic. The database is of particular importance for teaching and research in the Fox School of Business, and for advertising students in the School of Communications and Theater. However, it will also support entrepreneurial research in all consumer market categories. Access is unlimited, on campus and remotely, with IP recognition; full downloading of the reports is permitted. The database includes thousands of market research reports, across all consumer industries. Both browse and search access are available. Historical reports are retained, so they remain available for classes that need non-current market research for case studies. The database is availble from the Library Home Page, under “Find Articles via Databases”, in the alphabetical menu and under the Business databases subject menu. Click on this link for an alphabetical list of all databases. A description of the contents can be found here. While the Library has the market research reports from Datamonitor available in several databases, they are quite abbreviated. This is the first significant package of comprehensive market research that we have been able to acquire. Please let me know if you have any questions about the database. —Barbara Wright

AnthroSource joins the list of more than 300 databases which Temple University Libraries provides to Temple faculty, students, and staff for research. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), it is “the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists”. AnthroSource provides online access, with full-text, keyword, phrase, and Boolean searching, to the current issues of 15 of AAA’s peer-reviewed publications through the end of 2006; these include American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. AnthroSource also serves as an electronic archive, with more than 100 years of anthropological material online, for all of AAA’s 31 journals, newsletters and bulletins. Click here to view holdings information. AnthroSource uses CrossRef to dynamically link article PDF files to other publications within and without AnthroSource. All databases are linked from the Temple University Libraries website. Please contact me if you have any questions. If you would like to have AnthroSource and other social science databases demonstrated to a class, please call me at 215-204-4581 or email me to set a date for a Library User Education class. —Gregory McKinney Subject Specialist for Anthropology Temple University Libraries Temple University

Temple University Libraries is now providing access to the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, an “essential online resource for social and interdisciplinary research”. As with the previous print volumes, the primary focus of IBSS is on the 4 core social science subjects of anthropology, economics, politics and sociology for each of which it “provides one of the most comprehensive and specialist online databases with an impressive breadth and depth of material”. In addition, IBSS promotes the interdisciplinary and comparative nature of contemporary social science research by including selective complementary material in the related subjects of development studies, human geography, environment, gender and sexuality. The more than 2 million bibliographic records in the database encompass a variety of formats: journal articles from more than 2800 journals (including electronic) from all over the world, and from 1020 journals which are no longer being published, with records dating back as far as 1951; more than 370,000 book records; and more than 24,000 selected chapter records from multi-authored books. More than 60 languages and 100 countries are represented in IBSS, with abstracts in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The database is updated weekly, with 100,000 new records added annually. IBSS uses the CSA Illumina platform which provides a simple, user-friendly search interface for novice users and powerful searching options for experienced users. The interface is also used by numerous other databases, including Sociological Abstracts, PAIS International, and Criminal Justice Abstracts, to which TU Libraries provides access from their web site. All CSA databases can be searched individually or simultaneously. Although the IBSS database has no full text, it does provide links from IBSS records to the full text of articles in online journals to which Temple University Libraries subscribes. Please contact me if you have any questions. If you would like to have the IBSS database and other social science databases demonstrated to a class, please call me at 215-204-4581 or email me to set a date for a Library User Education class. All databases are linked from the Temple University Libraries Web Site. —Gregory McKinney Subject Specialist for the Social Sciences Temple University Libraries Temple University

The CAB Database is now available as a database from EBSCO Host to all Temple University faculty, staff and students. CAB Abstracts CAB Abstracts is the most comprehensive bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database in its field. CAB Abstracts covers the applied life sciences, including agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment. CAB Abstracts includes molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology, breeding, taxonomy, physiology and other aspects of pure science relating to organisms of agricultural, veterinary or environmental importance. Read more about this diverse and content rich resource here. There is something for most people in this database. Those with any questions or comments about this resource are most welcome to contact me at 215-204-4584. —David Dillard