The following content was recently added to America’s Historical Newspapers:

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, from Alexander Street Press, has just been added to the Libraries’ collections.  It includes 60 volumes of poetry by 47 authors. Accompanying the texts are extensive bio-critical essays, specially written for the database by leading scholars in the field, as well as selected criticism from the critical bibliography compiled by the editors.

Reports from CQ Researcher back to the first issue in 1923 (called Editorial Research Reports at the time) are now available to the Temple community.

Temple Libraries has a trial to Counseling and Therapy in Video, from Alexander Street Press, through June 22, 2009.  According to Alexander Street:

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection’s wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. Counseling and Therapy in Video‘s suite of tools—searches and browses powered by Semantic Indexing™ and searchable transcripts synchronized to video—give the ability to drill down in seconds to find the footage of interest from hundreds of hours of video.

The videos in this collection, drawn from the catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry, have been created by a variety of organizations and individuals dedicated to the advancement of education and training in counseling and therapy. Several types of videos have been chosen to provide a well-rounded collection that will be of interest to students, academics, and professionals alike. [More Info]

Don’t forget that Temple Libraries already subscribes to a complementary resource from Alexander Street, Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works.

The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art images now in ARTstor
The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art has partnered with ARTstor to distribute images of Islamic and South Asian art from the collection at Shangri La. This first release brings more than 200 images to the Digital Library, including decorative arts and textiles.

The Roy Lichtenstein collection is now available in ARTstor
Through collaboration with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Estate, ARTstor has made available 800 images of Lichtenstein’s works in the Digital Library.

Final images from the Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection (The Museum of Modern Art Archives)
ARTstor, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, has released the last 7,654 images digitized from the Museum Archives’ comprehensive collection of exhibition installation photographs, spanning exhibits from 1929 to 2000.

More images from the Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive) available in ARTstor
More than 9,234 additional images from Larry Qualls’ archive of contemporary art are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.

Collection agreement: additional images from William Keighley (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
ARTstor is collaborating with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to share approximately 5,500 images of European art and architecture photographed by William Keighley in the Digital Library.

We just added the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (3rd ed.) and the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics & Philosophy to Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press streaming audio, video, scores, and reference material that Temple subscribes to. This includes the following resources:

* African American Music [as of summer 2009]
* African American Music Reference
* American Song
* Classical Music Library
* Classical Scores Library
* Contemporary World Music
* Dance in Video
* The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
* Opera in Video
* Smithsonian Global Sound [as of summer 2009]

New Titles in Oxford Reference Online:

• Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
• Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History

ReadSpeaker, a "text-to-speech" enhancement, is now available in WilsonWeb databases such as OmniFile.

ReadSpeaker converts the full text and then automatically streams the audio content. No software downloads or special plug-ins are required.

To access ReadSpeaker, just open an HTML fulltext article. Near the upper left of the screen, you’ll see a "Listen" icon. Click it to hear the audio version of the article. ReadSpeaker articles can also be downloaded in an MP3 format for use on MP3 players.

ReadSpeaker only works with HTML articles, not PDFs.

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index now includes the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism – a new reference work with over 1600 entries detailing British and Irish newspaper and periodical publishing in the nineteenth century.