We have recently added a large number of journal and book series backfiles from the following publishers:

Elsevier ScienceDirect: 70+ journal titles (list 1 / list 2) in Economics & Finance and 38 book series in the Life Sciences

Oxford Journals Online: 150+ journal titles across all disciplines

Sage Journals Online: 380+ journal titles across all disciplines

SpringerLink: 825+ journal titles across all disciplines and 14 book series in the sciences

Wiley-Blackwell (Wiley InterScience): 150+ journal titles mainly in Medicine and related disciplines

The 2008 data for Journal Citation Reports was released in mid-June  Some highlights according to Thomson Reuters:

In addition to adding over 400 new titles in the Science and Social Sciences Editions, the latest release will deliver:

• 350+ titles with their first ever Journal Impact Factor
• First ever update to new metrics: Five Year Impact Factors and Eigenfactor™ Metrics (available only in JCR® Web)
• More than 8,000 of the world’s most highly cited, peer-reviewed journals
      o Over 6,500 in the Science edition, and
      o Almost 2,000 in the Social Sciences edition
• The largest time-trend analyses ever available

Journal Citation Reports includes journals from 3,300 publishers in approximately 227 disciplines, from 60 countries. Here are some other interesting facts:

• Articles in JCR-covered titles were cited 30,991,827 times in the year 2008
• These journals published 1,009,837 scholarly items and 475,398 editorial, correspondence, news and other items.
• Our editorial team analyzed 44,025,768 cited references from journals and proceedings for this latest release.

The following content was recently added to:

America’s Historical Newspapers

Latin American Newspapers

As of July 2009, content in African American Song has now been incorporated into American Song.  African American Song will no longer be maintained as a stand-alone resource.  If desired, you can restrict results in American Song to African American content in two ways:

1. Browse by Genre – there is a broad category called "African American Music," which restricts your results, and which you can narrow further by sub-genre, ensemble, artist, etc.

2. Browse by Album/Track – there is a "restrict results to African American content only" checkbox on the upper right hand corner of both browses.

New Content:

1,988 albums (35,792 recordings) from a wide variety of labels, genres, artists, and ensembles were added to American Song recently.  Some highlights:

• Contemporary Folk/Roots music from Appleseed Recordings, including legendary artists/ensembles such as Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Ani DiFranco, Joan Baez, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Jackson Browne, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Si Kahn, Christine Lavin, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, and more.
• Early Rock & Roll, Motown, Doo-Wop, and Boogie-Woogie from King Records, including legendary artists and ensembles such as B.B. King, Percy Sledge, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Billy Ward & The Dominoes, Ike & Tina Turner, James Brown, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Swan Silvertone Singers, The Coasters, The Five Royales, The Ink Spots, The Platters, The Shirelles, and more.
• Soul, Funk, R&B from Stax Records, including the complete Stax recordings of Isaac Hayes, plus legendary artists such as Shirley Brown, Gus Cannon, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., Otis Redding, Mavis Staples, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dionne Warwick, and more.
• Early recordings from Biograph Records, including Scott Joplin performing ragtime piano classics, and Cole Porter tunes from rare piano rolls.
• Blues and Jazz from Black Swan/Paramount Records, reissues of historic performances recorded on Black Swan Records, the first US record label to be owned and operated by African Americans (later owned by Paramount). Legendary artists include: Ma Rainey, Blind Blake, Johnny Dodds, Charley Patton, Ikey Robinson, Irene Scruggs, and more.
• Gospel, Doo-Wop, R&B from Specialty Records, including artists and ensembles such as Art Neville, Little Richard, Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Percy Mayfield, Soul Stirrers, The Detroiters, The Meditation Singers, and more.
• Disco, Funk, Soul, Blues-Rock from Fantasy Records, including artists and ensembles such as Booker T. & The MGs, Betty Everett, Jesse Fuller, Ruth Brown, The Blackbyrds, The Dramatics, and more.
• Gospel, R&B, and Soul Blues from HighTone Records, including artists and ensembles such as Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Otis Rush, Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, and The Robert Cray Band.
• Reggae, Bluegrass, Rock from Rounder Records, including artists and ensembles such as the Austin Lounge Lizards, Burning Spear, Georgia Sea Island Singers, New Lost City Ramblers, The Heptones, Jelly Roll Morton, Bob Dylan, Lee Scratch Perry, Rosalie Sorrels, Merle Travis, and more.
• Blues and Jazz from Arhoolie Records, including artists such as Lightning Hopkins, Johnny Young, Fred McDowell, Omar Shariff, Mercy Dee, Elizabeth Cotten, Juke Boy Bonner, Bukka White, and more.
• Country, Rockabilly, Honky-Tonk from Nashville recording giant Sun Records, including artists and ensembles such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Ricky Scaggs, Patti Page, The Flatlanders, The Vogues, and more.
• Spirituals and Blues from Testament Records, including artists and ensembles such as Luther Allison, Sleepy Estes, Robert Nighthawk, Mighty Joe Young, the Chicago Blues Band, and more.

The Libraries’ have just added the following resources from OCLC:

ArchiveGrid is an online service that provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.

ArticleFirst is an index of articles from the contents pages of over 12,000 journals, from 1990 to the present. Over 20 million records are currently available.

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) is a premiere resource of works of art from prominent museums around the world. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes.

Students, faculty, researchers, museum professionals and library visitors will find CAMIO to be a valuable tool. CAMIO provides images for art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, class projects and research resources. It is a single point of entry to many collections, providing unlimited and powerful, Web-based searching.

The scope of the CAMIO collection ranges from 3000 BC to the present. The content includes about 95,000 works of art – photographs,paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture – plus audio, video and mixed media. Difficult-to-find contemporary art is one of its strengths.

CAMIO art images span the following categories:
* Photographs
* Prints
* Sculptures
* Paintings
* Decorative Arts
* Posters
* Costumes
* Utilitarian Objects
* Jewelry

OAIster is a union catalog of digital records that began at the University of Michigan, built by harvesting records using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster is one of the world’s largest aggregators of records, boasting more than 19 million items from more than 1,000 contributors. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click.
Digital resources in OAister include:
–Digitized (scanned) books and articles
–Digital text
–Audio fles (WAV, MP3)
–Video fles (MP4, Quicktime)
–Photographic images (JPEG, TIFF, GIF)
–Data sets (downloadable statistical information

We have a trial to Local & Regional History Online from Alexander Street Press thru 8/16/09.  The publisher describes it as follows:

Local and Regional History Online: A History of American Life in Images in Texts presents the everyday people, places, and events that have shaped American history and culture. The collection, drawn from Arcadia Publishing’s award-winning line of local history books, features images and texts assembled by thousands of local experts with unparalleled knowledge of their community’s history. Individually, each title represents a small slice of American history; collectively, they offer a massive tapestry documenting every aspect of the American Story.

Local and Regional History Online is continually updated with more and more titles, and will grow to include more than 500,000 pages and 1 million images. Currently, the collection contains approximately 100,000 pages and 175,000 images, all indexed to allow for easy browsing and searching across contents.

Once you have tried it out please be sure to let us know what you think!

The initial release of Part 8: West (and Western) Europe is now available in the online edition of Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996.  This release includes 380,595 articles in 4,458 issues.

ARTstor has announced the following:

Collection agreement: Images from the National Gallery of Art
ARTstor is collaborating with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, to share more than 600 images of European paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Samuel H. Kress Collection.

Now available in ARTstor: Renaissance and Baroque book illustrations from the Warburg Institute
Approximately 1,200 images from the Warburg Institute are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. This first release includes images of European book illustrations from the 16th through 18th centuries.

Bryn Mawr College Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites Collection now in ARTstor
More than 2,700 images of Ancient Near East archaeological sites and monuments from Bryn Mawr College are now available in the Digital Library.

New Titles in Oxford Reference Online:

• A-Z of Plastic Surgery
• Oxford Companion to the American Musical
• Magic Universe: A Tour of Modern Science

New Editions/Revisions:

• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
• Dictionary of British History
• Dictionary of Geography
• Dictionary of Law
• Dictionary of Political Biography
• Dictionary of the Internet
• Oxford Companion to British History