The libraries are pleased to announce our subscription to FIAF International Film Archive Database. Produced by the International Federation of Film Archives, the database includes indexing to over 300 international periodicals on film and television, selected bibliographies, and a directory of archives and research centers.

• International Index to Film Periodicals 72-present
• International Index to TV Periodicals 79-present
• Treasures from the Film Archives – finding aid for archival film material worldwide
• International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections
• Bibliography of FIAF members’ publications

Tips: When in the database, choose the component that you want to search from the red arrow in the upper right, next to the label “change databases.” Please also note that the subscription allows for 4 Temple students, staff, or faculty to search the database at one time. This number can be increased should use warrant it. Please feel free to contact me with any questions about this resource. —Jenifer Lee Baldwin

Two new collections of full-text journals have been added to our JSTOR content: Arts & Sciences Complement “The Arts & Sciences Complement is intended to offer participants a method to seamlessly add journals related to the core Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV Collections. For the Arts & Sciences Complement, journals may be focused in any of the more than thirty arts, humanities, and social sciences disciplines covered by JSTOR. Our aim is to introduce important titles that we were unable to include in earlier collections and to capture journals that cross discipline boundaries. A minimum of 150 titles will be included by the end of 2008.” Biological Sciences “The Biological Sciences Collection will include at least 100 titles when it is completed in 2007. This collection brings together the twenty-nine journals available in our existing Ecology & Botany Collection with more than seventy titles new to JSTOR. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology.” Both collections currently including dozens of journals, some going back to the beginning the of the twentieth century. See the complete list at the links above. –Derik A Badman

Classical Music Library: streaming audio of beautiful music!

For listening pleasure, cultural stimulation, classroom enrichment, and study and research, Temple University Libraries are pleased to announce the addition of Classical Music Library to our electronic resources. Classical Music Library provides streamed audio of an extensive array of classical music repertoire. Listeners can browse composers’ works, or search for music by instrument, period, title, genre, or performer. The “folders” feature allows each person to construct their own individualized playlists, or to take advantage of ready-made “themed” playlists. These themed playlists include the major anthologies used to teach the history of music as well as playlists for specific artistic movements, composers, artists, genres, music appreciation, mood music, music for occasions, and period music. In addition, Classical Music Library contains a reference section with information and images about composers, music history, and musical terms.

Classical Music Library is available here.

For help using this service, questions, and/or feedback, contact Anne Harlow.

Enjoy!

—Anne Harlow

The Factiva database, a product of Dow Jones and Reuters, is now available in the Library’s package of databases. It can be found on the Library Home Page, under “Find Articles”, in the alphabetical list, in the business subject menu, and in the list of new databases. The most important component of the database is the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, but that is only one of 1500 global and local newspapers, 3200 magazines, 500 newswires, 160 media programs, and thousands of Web sites included in Factiva. The database provides company background information from Reuters for more than 42,500 companies. The database is fully searchable by source, company name, industry, region of the world, and time period, using nine different language interfaces, and content is available in more than 20 different languages. An excellent (and brief) online tutorial is available. One important note: The databases is licensed to Temple University Libraries for only SEVEN (7) simultaneous users. This is a significant addition to the Library’s resources, and an important source for business news and information. In addition, the database includes many resources in other disciplines, with numerous journals in the fields of health care, tourism and recreation, sports, the arts (music, film, dance, crafts, literature), agriculture and forestry, and the media, all with global coverage. —Barbara Wright

Temple University Libraries has recently begun access to the retrospective files of indexes that were once mainstays of many American academic libraries: Readers’ Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984) The Readers’ Guide is important because it indexes citations to general audience magazines before the 1980’s–which is about when most electronic databases begin their earliest coverage. There are 50 periodicals indexed from 1890 to 1899 and an increasing numbers after that. Humanities & Social Sciences Indexes are indexes of more scholarly periodicals than those covered in the Readers’ Guide–a selective number of titles chosen by boards of editors and librarians over the years that fit the criteria of being both important to their respective fields and likely to be held in most academic libraries. These indexes continue today as Humanities Abstracts and Social Sciences Abstracts, to which Temple University Libraries maintains access. In their present form, they are both useful for guiding students to limited sets of well-regarded scholarly periodicals. —Rick Lezenby

More new resources:

— International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean, and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary–spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.

— AGRICOLA PlusTextThe largest online source of key agricultural journals AGRICOLA Plus (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is an extensive bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the U.S. National Agricultural Library. It is the definitive agricultural database, providing abstracts and indexing, and full text for hundreds of resources with coverage beginning 1970. The citations describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines. ProQuest Agriculture Journals covers a wide range of agriculture-related topics, such as:

• Animal and veterinary sciences
• Plant sciences
• Forestry
• Aquaculture and fisheries
• Farming and farming systems
• Agricultural economics
• Food and human nutrition

— RISM: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales = International Inventory of Musical Sources “The International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) is an international, non-profit joint venture which aims to comprehensively document the world’s musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. The organization, founded in Paris in 1952, is the largest and the only global operation that registers written musical sources. RISM documents what exists and where it is stored.” “RISM series A/II: “Music manuscripts after 1600″ is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. Fifty years of careful research and joint initiatives sponsored by RISM brings together among others more than 551,000 records by over 19,500 composers into one database which can be easily searched. The manuscripts are found in over 750 libraries and archives in 31 countries…”

— African American Biographical Database The African American Biographical Database (AABD) brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. The collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more–both the famous and the everyday person.