20 New Titles in Credo Reference

Credo Reference recently added the following 20 new titles:

  • Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO
  • Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO
  • An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics, Edward Elgar
  • Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture, Routledge
  • Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, Elsevier
  • France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO
  • Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO
  • The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates, ABC-CLIO
  • Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Edward Elgar
  • Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates, ABC-CLIO
  • Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO
  • The New Encyclopedia of Judaism, New York University Press
  • The Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics, Edward Elgar
  • Pop Culture China! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, ABC-CLIO
  • Pop Culture Germany! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, ABC-CLIO
  • Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, ABC-CLIO
  • Pop Culture Latin America! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, ABC-CLIO
  • Pop Culture Russia! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, ABC-CLIO
  • Who’s Who In Economics, Edward Elgar
  • Women’s History as Scientists: A Guide to the Debates, ABC-CLIO

America’s Historical Newspapers Content Update: 1/30/09

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

Publication Issues Publication Location Date Start Date End
Daily Record-Miner 1 Juneau, AK 1910-07-10  
Republic 109 Washington, DC 1849-07-04 1851-07-31
Palladium 1 Frankfort, KY 1816-09-06  
Times Picayune 2443 New Orleans, LA 1862-12-28 1900-12-24
Boston Journal 609 Boston, MA 1868-01-01 1891-06-30
Baltimore American 1 Baltimore, MD 1903-08-30  
Albany Evening Journal 9 Albany, NY 1853-01-19 1874-06-26
New York Herald 325 New York, NY 1863-09-01 1865-06-10
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune 1236 Cincinnati, OH 1869-01-01 1890-12-31
Public Ledger 1397 Philadelphia, PA 1836-03-25 1876-11-18
Salt Lake Telegram 1 Salt Lake City, UT 1919-12-23  

New Features in Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reportsrecently introduced the following new features:

  • Five-Year Impact Factor – Gives a broader range of citation activity for a more informative snapshot over time. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this allows more of their total citation activity to be included in a critical performance metric.
  • Eigenfactor™, also a five-year metric, is designed to reflect the prestige and citation influence of journals by considering scholarly literature as a network of journal-to-journal relationships.
  • Graphic Displays of Impact Factor “Box Plots” – A graphic interpretation of how a journal ranks in different categories.
  • Rank-in-Category Tables for Journals Covering Multiple Disciplines – Allows a journal to be seen in the context of multiple categories at a glance rather than only a single one.
  • Journal “Self Citations” – An analysis of journal self citations and their contribution to the Journal Impact Factor calculation.

New Interface for Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) has a new interface. Besides a streamlined look-and-feel, the new interface also provides the following new features:

  • Research Guide section for undergraduates with contextual essays and chronology
  • Image Gallery, Most Popular Searches and Key Documents sections
  • Citation generator and export functionality
  • Expanded download and e-mail features
  • Keyword in Context feature from results list

In addition, you now have the option of including results from Early English Books Online (EEBO) in your ECCO search, and then linking directly to the EEBO documents (this also works the other way around – you can include ECCO results in an EEBO search).

New & Updated Titles in Oxford Reference Online

Five new titles and five new editions were recently added to Oxford Reference Online. New Titles:

  • Dictionary of Education
  • New Encyclopedia of Insects and their Allies
  • Oxford Companion to Global Change
  • Oxford Companion to Local and Family History
  • Oxford Guide to Literary Britain

New Editions:

  • Dictionary of Economics
  • Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
  • Dictionary of Sociology
  • Dictionary of Zoology
  • Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs