We have just added the following 2 titles to the Gale Virtual Reference Library:

• Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire
• Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction

The following 9 journals have been added to Project Muse so far in 2010:

• American Book Review
• American Studies
• Black Camera
• Canadian Theatre Review
• Collaborative Anthropologies
• Native South
• Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
• Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences
• Studies in American Naturalism

We have a trial to Ethnographic Video Online from Alexander Street Press until May 4, 2010.  Any feedback you’d like to provide is appreciated.

We have just added the following major encyclopedias to our Oxford Reference Online service:

• Encyclopedia of Africa
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
• Encyclopedia of Human Rights
• Oxford Companion to Architecture
• Oxford Companion to the Book

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine [1994- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=occuenvimedi
Previous Title: British Journal of Industrial Medicine [1944-1993] (0007-1072)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=brijindumedi
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1944) – Vol. 50, No. 12 (December, 1993);
Vol. 51, No. 1 (January, 1994) – Vol. 63, No. 12 (December, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
ISSN: 1351-0711
Note: The remaining content for Vol. 1 (1944) will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

The Wilson Quarterly (1976-)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsonq
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1976) – Vol. 32, No. 4 (Autumn, 2008)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
ISSN: 0363-3276

Credo Reference recently added the following:

• The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology
• The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression
• Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology, Wiley
• Dictionary of Forensic Psychology, Willan Publishing
• Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Wiley
• The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Springer Science+Business Media
• Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, Elsevier Science & Technology
• Encyclopedia of the Human Genome, Wiley
• Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO

New content has been added to several of the Alexander Street Music Online collections:

African American Music Reference: 1,317 pages in 15 titles from Chelsea House Publishers, Hampton Institute Press, and David McKay. New titles include:

• Traditional Black Music Series (13 volumes) by Jerry Silverman (sheet music including spirituals, slave songs, songs of protest and civil rights)
• Sheet music of hymns and religious folk songs published by Hampton Institute Press
• Echoes of Africa in Folk Songs of the Americas (Beatrice Landeck)
• African American Music Reference now totals 34,112 pages

American Song: 912 tracks from 40 albums of traditional folk songs, rural blues, gospel hymns, and more. Highlights include:

• 9 volumes of traditional folk songs recorded specifically for American Song by folk singer Jerry Silverman. These folk songs were collected and published in his Folk Song Encyclopedia. These are the recordings that complement the sheet music in the Encyclopedia. Liner notes for the songs include a description of the folk song plus the complete lyrics.
• Country/rural blues from Takoma Records
• I’m Going Down to North Carolina – The Complete Recording ofthe Red Fox Chasers, 1928-31, from Tompkins Square Records

Classical Music Library: 3,528 tracks from 258 albums from Bridge Records, Celestial Harmonies, and Mark Custom Records, 1,300 new compositions were added to the collection, including wind ensemble/wind symphonies, choral music, contemporary music by Luciano Berio, David Rakowski, and more. Examples of new albums include:

• David Rakowski: Etudes, Vol. 3
• Three Quartets: The Apollo Saxophone Quartet
• Theme and Variations: Improvisations On Children’s Songs
• H. Kling: 40 Characteristic Etudes for French Horn
• Susan Levitin, Gerald Rizze: 20th Century American Duos for Flute & Piano
• The American Impressionist Organ

Classical Scores Library: 9,716 pages from 205 scores from Faber Music, Ltd., and Universal Edition. New scores include compositions by Thomas Adès, Julian Anderson, Alban Berg, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Anne Boyd, Arcangelo Corelli, Colin Matthews, Robert Schumann, Peter Sculthorpe, Carl Vine, Carl Maria von Weber, and more. Classical Scores Library now contains 14,757 scores and 318,263 pages.

Jazz Music Library: Additional indexing has been completed for over 1,000 albums in Jazz Music Library. New fields, including complete instrumentation, subgenres, and biographical data were released for these albums.

More than 80 new titles were recently added to Films on Demand.

IEEE Xplore now has an updated interface with improved search capabilities, new personalization features, and expanded browsing options.  Details here.

We have trial access to the following collections until the end of June:

• American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1
• American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2
• American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1
• American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2