At long last, the library has access to L’Annee philologique, the most important database for the study of the ancient Greco-Roman world. L’Annee reflects the international and multidisciplinary nature of classical studies, indexing books, articles, and conference papers from around the world in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other languages. (You will often find that the abstract to an article is written in a different language than the article itself.) Whether you’re searching for information on the Presocratics, the Homeric Hymns, the archaeological remains of Pompeii, or ancient science and technology, you will find highly relevant and dependable sources here.

L’Annee philologique online is based on the print index of the same name that has been a standard for years among classics scholars. Current online coverage is from print volume 30 (1959) to volume 74 (2003). You can search by Modern Author, Ancient Author, Full Text, Subjects and disciplines, Date, and other criteria. In the case of “Full Text”, this does not mean that you can search the entire contents of articles–this is NOT a full text database. Rather, it means that you can search the entire contents of the article records. This is unusual terminology for users in the United States and reflects L’annee’s European origin.

There are some other important features that might be surprising to non-classicist American users. For the Ancient Author search, you need to input the latinized version of a name, so for instance “liuius”, not “livy”. To search for “livy”, do the Full Text search. Complex searches are also handled differently. You have to build up your search step by step. To combine a Modern Author search with, say, a Subject search, you have to first do the author search, then the subject search, and finally combine the two searches using the boolean operator AND. Once you’ve done all the simple searches describing your topic (and you can have many), the combining and recombining of search sets–using AND, OR, and NOT–is made easy and efficient.

Unfortunately, the Help pages to this database are sparse. Below I’ve listed a bunch of academic library tutorials that I found useful:

• http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ssah/useits/annee_phil/annee-philologique.html
• http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/lannee/index.html
• http://www.lib.unb.ca/instruction/APhGuide.html.

–Fred Rowland

I am delighted to be able to announce that the Library has added a market research reports database to our subscriptions. The database is MarketResearch.com Academic. The database is of particular importance for teaching and research in the Fox School of Business, and for advertising students in the School of Communications and Theater. However, it will also support entrepreneurial research in all consumer market categories. Access is unlimited, on campus and remotely, with IP recognition; full downloading of the reports is permitted. The database includes thousands of market research reports, across all consumer industries. Both browse and search access are available. Historical reports are retained, so they remain available for classes that need non-current market research for case studies. The database is availble from the Library Home Page, under “Find Articles via Databases”, in the alphabetical menu and under the Business databases subject menu. Click on this link for an alphabetical list of all databases. A description of the contents can be found here. While the Library has the market research reports from Datamonitor available in several databases, they are quite abbreviated. This is the first significant package of comprehensive market research that we have been able to acquire. Please let me know if you have any questions about the database. —Barbara Wright

AnthroSource joins the list of more than 300 databases which Temple University Libraries provides to Temple faculty, students, and staff for research. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), it is “the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists”. AnthroSource provides online access, with full-text, keyword, phrase, and Boolean searching, to the current issues of 15 of AAA’s peer-reviewed publications through the end of 2006; these include American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. AnthroSource also serves as an electronic archive, with more than 100 years of anthropological material online, for all of AAA’s 31 journals, newsletters and bulletins. Click here to view holdings information. AnthroSource uses CrossRef to dynamically link article PDF files to other publications within and without AnthroSource. All databases are linked from the Temple University Libraries website. Please contact me if you have any questions. If you would like to have AnthroSource and other social science databases demonstrated to a class, please call me at 215-204-4581 or email me to set a date for a Library User Education class. —Gregory McKinney Subject Specialist for Anthropology Temple University Libraries Temple University

Temple University Libraries is now providing access to the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, an “essential online resource for social and interdisciplinary research”. As with the previous print volumes, the primary focus of IBSS is on the 4 core social science subjects of anthropology, economics, politics and sociology for each of which it “provides one of the most comprehensive and specialist online databases with an impressive breadth and depth of material”. In addition, IBSS promotes the interdisciplinary and comparative nature of contemporary social science research by including selective complementary material in the related subjects of development studies, human geography, environment, gender and sexuality. The more than 2 million bibliographic records in the database encompass a variety of formats: journal articles from more than 2800 journals (including electronic) from all over the world, and from 1020 journals which are no longer being published, with records dating back as far as 1951; more than 370,000 book records; and more than 24,000 selected chapter records from multi-authored books. More than 60 languages and 100 countries are represented in IBSS, with abstracts in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The database is updated weekly, with 100,000 new records added annually. IBSS uses the CSA Illumina platform which provides a simple, user-friendly search interface for novice users and powerful searching options for experienced users. The interface is also used by numerous other databases, including Sociological Abstracts, PAIS International, and Criminal Justice Abstracts, to which TU Libraries provides access from their web site. All CSA databases can be searched individually or simultaneously. Although the IBSS database has no full text, it does provide links from IBSS records to the full text of articles in online journals to which Temple University Libraries subscribes. Please contact me if you have any questions. If you would like to have the IBSS database and other social science databases demonstrated to a class, please call me at 215-204-4581 or email me to set a date for a Library User Education class. All databases are linked from the Temple University Libraries Web Site. —Gregory McKinney Subject Specialist for the Social Sciences Temple University Libraries Temple University

Another bunch of new electronic resources are available to the Temple community.

—Books 24×7: Online library of approximately 5,000 titles on information technology topics. Users can annotate books and create personal bookshelves of favorite titles.

—Gale Ready Reference Shelf: Provides integrated access to over 300,000 entries culled from the databases of fourteen of Gale’s most popular reference directories:

• Directories in Print
• Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
• Encyclopedia of American Religions
• Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.
• Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations
• Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations
• Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
• Gale Directory of Databases
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
• Newsletters in Print
• Publishers Directory
• Research Centers Directory
• International Research Centers Directory
• Government Research Centers Directory

—Women Writers Online: Hundreds of texts written by women between 1400 to 1850. All of these texts can be browsed, searched, and analysed using tools which provide access to the full SGML encoding.

—Justis (UK Legal Texts): Justis provides online access to the following:

English Reports: “The English Reports brings together all the important English case reports from 1220 until 1873, just after the official Law Reports were published for the first time.”

UK Statutes: “Justis UK Statutes contains all Acts of Parliament for England, Wales and Scotland dating back to the Magna Carta (1235). The full text of the legislation, including repealed Acts, is provided as originally enacted.”

—Inspec Archive: (Physics, Computing, Electronics, 1884-present). Covers all aspects of these subjects, in approximately 4,200 journals and 1,000 conferences as well as books, reports and dissertations. (Updated weekly). Now includes the Inspec Archive. Including over 800,000 records, the backfile covers the literature of physics, electrical engineering, and computing from 1884-1968. Corresponds to the print General Science Abstracts.

—Engineering Index Backfile: This is the electronic version of The Engineering Index, the world’s premier link to the engineering literature. The database adds about 500,000 records yearly. Compendex covers over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences, and reports. All areas of engineering are represented. Approximately 22% of the database is conference literature, and 90% of the source documents are in English. About half the citations (from 2,000 journals and conferences) include abstracts and indexing. (Updated weekly) The new backfile contents covers the engineering literature from 1884-1968.

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(Descriptions are all taken from our database descriptions page.)

–Derik A Badman