Trial: Oxford Bibliographies Online

We have trial access to Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) until 5/29/10.  According to Oxford, OBO is

an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. Each entry is a selective guided tour through the key literature on a topic, receives multiple peer-reviews as well as Editorial Board approval, and is designed to facilitate a research experience with no dead ends.

Subject modules currently available are Classics, Criminology, Islamic Studies, and Social Work.  Your feedback is welcomed.

ARTstor Update 4/29/10

ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Foundation for Landscape Studies
ARTstor has collaborated with the Foundation for Landscape Studies to share approximately 5,000 contemporary photographs and historical illustrations of gardens and landscapes from around the world in the Digital Library.

Now available: European popular imagery from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
ARTstor has collaborated with the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin to share approximately 800 images of European prints documenting popular culture in the Digital Library.

Now available: Beyond the Taj: Architectural Traditions and Landscape Experience in South Asia (Cornell University Library)
ARTstor has collaborated with Cornell University Library to make available more than 6,600 photographs of South Asian architecture from the Beyond the Taj collection.

JSTOR Update 4/29/10

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=cuapenpol
Release Content:
Nos. 1-20 (October, 2003 – October/December, 2008)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: FAES, Fundacion para el Analisis y los Estudios Sociales
ISSN: 1696-8441

Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jmiddeastwomstud
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 2005) – Vol. 2, No. 3 (2006)
|Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISSN: 1552-5864
Note: The content for Vol. 2, No. 2 (2006) will be released as soon as the issue becomes available to JSTOR.

Meridians
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=meridians
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 2000) – Vol. 7, No. 1 (2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISSN: 1536-6936

Papers of the British School at Rome
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=papbritschrome
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1902) – Vol. 74 (2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: The British School at Rome
ISSN: 0068-2462

Philosophy of Music Education Review
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=philmusieducrevi
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1993) – Vol. 14, No. 2 (Fall, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISSN: 1063-5734

Schools: Studies in Education
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=schoolstudedu
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (March, 2004) – Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 1550-1175

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=trancharpeirsoc
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1965) – Vol. 42, No. 4 (Fall, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISSN: 0009-1774

Translation and Literature
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=translit
Release Content:
Vol. 1 (1992) – Vol. 13, No. 2 (Autumn, 2004)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISSN: 0968-1361

Some New E-Acquisitions…

18th Century Journals Portal

-67 new periodicals from the 18th Century Journals III Collection

Books24x7

-over 1,000 finance-related ebooks added

Dictionary of Old English and the Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus

-definitions of Old English words, as well as the underlying corpus of texts upon which the dictionary is built

LexisNexis Congressional Hearings

-over 78,000 digitized congressional hearings (14 million pages) from 1824-1979

LexisNexis Serial Set

-coverage now extends to 1979 (instead of 1969) and also now includes the Senate Executive Documents & Reports, 1817-1978

LexisNexis Statistical DataSets

-provides access to more than 14 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface

-select subjects and variables of interest, and view your data in side-by-side tables and charts

Oxford Scholarship Online

-297 Law titles

New JSTOR Collection Added

JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences VIII Collection was recently purchased by the Libraries.  The collection currently includes more than 80 titles and is projected to grow to at least 140 titles by 2011.  It broadens JSTOR’s coverage of core humanities disciplines including history, language & literature, art & art history, and education.  Included is a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.  A list of current and upcoming titles is available.

Credo Reference Update: 4/16/10

Credo Reference recently added the following:

  • All Things Chaucer: An Encyclopedia of Chaucer’s World, ABC-CLIO
  • Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism, ABC-CLIO
  • Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues since 1945, ABC-CLIO
  • Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures, Springer
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature, ABC-CLIO
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Great Plains Region
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Mid-Atlantic Region
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Midwest
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: New England
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Pacific Region
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Rocky Mountain Region
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The South
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Southwest
  • A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and Empires, Edinburgh University Press
  • Keywords for American Cultural Studies, New York University Press