Another round of new e-resources:

—Biography Resource Center: Integrates hundreds of thousands of biographies drawn from over 135 well-known Thomson Gale print sources including Contemporary Authors and over 300 full-text periodicals. Biographies of all kinds of people from history and government to the arts and sciences.

—Knovel Library: Knovel Library provides Temple with online access to over 450 titles included in the following subject collections:

-Aerospace & Radar Technology
-Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
-Civil Engineering & Construction Materials
-Electrical & Power Engineering
-Environmental Engineering
-General Engineering
-Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering
-Metals & Metallurgy
-Oil & Gas
-Semiconductors & Electronics

—(London) Times Digital Archive (1785-1985): Searchable, full-text and full-image archive of every page of the (London) Times from 1785 to 1985.

—(London) Times Literary Supplement Centennary Archive (1902-1990): “This database offers a complete facsimile edition of the Times Literary Supplement, from 1902 through 1990, contains new information on anonymous contributors that allows students and scholars to explore in greater depth the literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th century.

More than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than 5,000 issues of the Times Literary Supplement, searchable by author and/or contributor, are available here in the context in which they were originally published. Users can access any page via the online version of the published index when executing a title, author or subject search.”

—International Financial Statistics of the International Monetary Fund: Provides approximately 32,000 financial time series covering most countries in the world. The data available for each country includes data on exchange rates, international liquidity, interest rates, prices, production, national accounts and population. In many cases the data extend back to 1948.

–Derik A Badman

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.

Questions? Ask a Librarian.

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

–Derik A Badman

More new e-resources:

—GeoScience World: A comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.

Highlights:
Full text of 30 peer-reviewed high impact journals published by 7 earth sciences societies/institutes, nonprofit and independent geoscience publishers.
Links to major indexes – GeoRef, Web of Science
Search by – keyword, thesaurus, bounding coordinates (longitude and latitude)
Download references to citation management software – EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager.

Questions? Contact me.
Laura Lane
Science Librarian

—ASM Alloy Center: Search ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys.

The Alloy Center contains five content areas:

Data Sheets & Diagrams
Features thousands of documents in PDF format, including material data sheets from Alloy Digest and other ASM publications; heat treating data sheets from the Heat Treater’s Guides; and time-temperature curves, creep curves, and fatigue curves. All organized by alloy and fully searchable.

Alloy Finder
Features alloy designations and trade names from around the world. Find key information, including composition, producer, tensile properties, and similar alloys.

Materials Property Data
Features mechanical properties, physical properties, and processing characteristics for most industrially important alloys. Find data plotted over a range of temperatures.

Coatings Data
Features detailed information for commercial coating processes. Search by trade name, manufacturer, process type, coating type, or key words.

Corrosion Data
Features corrosion information for specific alloys in specific environments. Search by alloy or environment.

—ASM Handbooks Online: Online access to the complete content of 20 ASM Handbook volumes plus the Engineered Materials Handbook Desk Edition and the Metals Handbook Desk Edition.

—Business & Management Practices: Business & Management Practices (BaMP) is a full-text resource with a focus on the practical aspects and approaches of business management. Updated weekly and providing coverage back to 1995, Business & Management Practices offers highly-focused coverage of more than 300 core management journals and trade publications. Also included are specific management-related articles from over 300 additional respected business sources. (Updated weekly)

—Clase and Periodica: Indexes articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Clase indexes journals in the social sciences and humanities, while Periódica indexes journals in the sciences and technology. Together, they provide more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
—PsychiatryOnline: Online access to the full-text of the DSM-IV TR as well as five journals from American Psychiatric Publishing, including the American Journal of Psychiatry.

—TableBase: Contains tables drawn from over 900 titles in the Business & Industry database and privately-published statistical annuals. Coverage includes: Company and brand rankings, Imports and exports, Industry and product forecasts, Market share, Number of users/outlets, Production and consumption statistics, Trends and demographics,and Usage and capacity.
Except where noted, descriptions are taken from our database description page.

—Derik A Badman

Another bunch of new electronic resources available for your research needs:

—Science of Synthesis: “Provides online access to one of the most in-depth authoritative information sources available on synthetic methodology. Information is available on 18,000 generally applicable experimental procedures, including 180,000 reactions and 800,000 structures. Also included is the searchable full-text of the various editions of the highly esteemed, almost 200 year-old Houben-Weyl.”

—International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text: “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, as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs such as Art and the Performance of Memory, Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, Community Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who’s Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more.”

—AnthroSource: “Full-text of 32 current and past journals from the American Anthropological Association.”
—Columbia Earthscape: “This interdisciplinary resource connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions. Students, teachers, and librarians will find a dynamic, inquiry-based educational resource, featuring illustrated lectures, animations, video and image banks, exercises and labs, syllabi, and basic textbook readings. Columbia Earthscape also gives policy makers and professionals a robust, carefully selected and assessed collection of environmental legislation, regional studies, international environmental documents, and white papers. And it offers scientists an educational venue in which to incorporate their research as well as a growing archive of journal articles, journal abstracts, conference literature, full-text monographs and selected chapters, and online data sets.”
—Mental Measurements Yearbook Online: “Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series.” MMY Online covers Volume 9 to the present.
—National Journal’s Policy Central: “Includes the following resources from the National Journal Group:

• National Journal – Read the leading nonpartisan weekly on politics, policy and government.
• The Hotline – Track American politics and campaigns with coverage of each day’s political news.
• CongressDaily – Follow the key players and legislative process on Capitol Hill.
• TechnologyDaily – Monitor important news and trends in information technology politics and policy.
• Almanac of American Politics – Get analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and districts.
• Markup Reports & Bill Status – Get complete coverage of every congressional markup session, as well as constantly updated reports on key legislation.
• Ad Spotlight – Explore political and issue television ads with streaming audio or video.
• Poll Track – Start your research with a database of public opinion surveys from across the country.”

Please direct any questions to your departmental librarian or Ask a Librarian.

—Derik Badman

Another round of new and expanded resources:

—Kraus Curriculum Development Library: An index of over 6000 curriculum materials for K-12 and Adult Basic Education, more than 200 in full-text. Includes curriculum, standards, frameworks, educational objectives, instructional strategies, and evaluation techniques. (Updated monthly)

—American Periodicals Series Online: The publisher describes the resources: “This unique and valuable collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford’s American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the acclaimed American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America’s first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies’ Home Journal.” See this longer description.

—CINAHL and Pre-CINAHL: The library has added access to CINAHL through EBSCOhost. CINAHL indexes articles on nursing and allied health from over 1,600 journals dating back to 1982. Pre-CINAHL provides access to articles that are being added to the CINAHL database. These are articles that do not yet have complete indexingt and that will be added to CINAHL upon indexing completion.

—MEDLINE: The library has also added EBSCOhost and Web of Science access to MEDLINE, each providing its own attendant extra features, such as linking between full-text in other EBSCO databases or Web of Science links to open source journals.

—IEEE Explore: Expanded access to IEEE has increased our access to over 120 full-text journals, as well as transactions, conference titles, and standards from 1988 to the present with some items going back as far as 1950.

Please direct any questions to your departmental librarian or Ask a Librarian.

—Derik A Badman

The Library has added to its subscription databases a new source of statistics. It is called Statistical Universe (from LexisNexis Academic). For many years we have had the print indexes and the accompanying microfiche collections, and now we online access. Is it the combined product of three different resources: American Statistics Index (U.S. Federal government statistics) (1973-), Statistical Reference Index (U.S. private sector statistics – organizations, commercial publishers, businesses, university research bureaus, states)(1980-), and Index to International Statistics (statistics from major intergovernmental organizations). The combined database allows searching across all types of producers of statistics and online viewing of most results. Here is the list of publishers and most recent contents of the database (we have acquired BOTH the “Basic Collection” and the “Research Edition”). I urge you to take a look at some of the resources that are offered from the publishers – just click on the name of the agency/publisher, and the list of the most recent titles is displayed. Some extraordinary statistical resources are available from publishers like the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Electronic Industries Alliance, eMarketer Inc., Employee Benefit Research Institute, National Restaurant Association, Plunkett Research, Strategy Research Corporation, Television Bureau of Advertising, and the Urban Institute. —Barbara Wright

The Library is acquiring access to new electronic resources (not to mention all the new books) faster than we can announce them. Here’s a bunch of recent resources with brief descriptions (taken from the Library’s database description page). There are plenty more coming.

—International Bibliography of the Social Sciences includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. (Updated quarterly)

—MIT CogNet subtitled “The Brain Sciences Connection” is a collection of resources in the cognitive sciences. It includes 7 full-test MIT journals, searchable abstracts of 30 other journals, 6 full-text MIT reference works, and over 400 full-text cognitive science books from MIT Press. Also included are conference proceedings, open courseware materials, job information, calls for papers, and information about gradiate programs in the cognitive sciences.

—Safari Tech Books Online is a full-text library of over 800 information technology books from publishers including O’Reilly, Que, New Riders, Addison-Wesley, and Sams.

—The Encyclopedia of American Studies “brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present. It features broad, synthetic articles covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America.
Interdisciplinary in its coverage of the American experience, this comprehensive reference has been written by hundreds of internationally renowned scholars who present their topics in clear and lively prose.
With over 660 online, searchable articles and bibliographies, the Encyclopedia of American Studies provides an integrated approach to problems, themes, and issues that cut across disciplinary lines. The breadth and depth of disciplines, topics, and issues featured in this resource support research and study in a wide range of courses and assignments at all levels.”
The Encyclopedia’s editor in chief is Temple’s own Miles Orvell.

—Current Protocols Series provides hundreds of basic to advanced research protocols and overviews covering areas of interest in the life sciences. Each protocol contains a materials list, and the units feature commentary and guidelines written and edited by experts. All protocols are carefully selected for maximum applicability, lab-tested in leading laboratories, and then thoroughly scrutinized by expert editorial boards to make sure you can easily duplicate them in your own labs. Temple University subscribes to Current Protocols in: Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Cytometry, Human Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, MRI, Neuroscience, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Pharmacology, Protein Science, and Toxicology.

—Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. The database combines the records of three collections: Cornell University’s former Hospitality database, Articles in Hospitality and Tourism (AHT), formerly co-produced by the Universities of Surrey and Oxford Brookes, and the Lodging, Restaurant & Tourism Index (LRTI), formerly produced by Purdue University. Together, this collection contains more than 500,000 records from more than 500 titles, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. Hospitality & Tourism Complete contains full text for more than 200 publications. Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. Of special importance is the inclusion in this database of the “Cited Reference” search feature which supplements and complements the results found in Social Science Citation Index.

If you have questions about any of these resources, please Ask a Librarian.

–Derik A Badman

The libraries are pleased to announce our subscription to FIAF International Film Archive Database. Produced by the International Federation of Film Archives, the database includes indexing to over 300 international periodicals on film and television, selected bibliographies, and a directory of archives and research centers.

• International Index to Film Periodicals 72-present
• International Index to TV Periodicals 79-present
• Treasures from the Film Archives – finding aid for archival film material worldwide
• International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections
• Bibliography of FIAF members’ publications

Tips: When in the database, choose the component that you want to search from the red arrow in the upper right, next to the label “change databases.” Please also note that the subscription allows for 4 Temple students, staff, or faculty to search the database at one time. This number can be increased should use warrant it. Please feel free to contact me with any questions about this resource. —Jenifer Lee Baldwin