New & Updated Electronic Resources: April 2009 Archives

The following 14 new journals went online in Project Muse between February – April 2009:

Canadian Public Policy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Publisher: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Franciscan Studies
Publisher: The Franciscan Institute

Histoire social/Social history
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Publisher: Indiana University Press

JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Journal of Slavic Linguistics
Publisher: Slavica Publishers

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
Publisher: MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United State

The Middle East Journal
Publisher: Middle East Institute

Le mouvement social
Publisher: Association Le Mouvement Social

The Pluralist
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies
Publisher: Slavica Publishers

Tenso
Publisher: Société Guilhem IX

Credo Reference recently added the following 11 new/updated titles:

New

• Critical Terms for Religious Studies, University of Chicago Press
• Penguin Dictionary of Biology
• Who Was Who at Waterloo: A Biography of the Battle, Pearson Education

Updated

• Debrett's People of Today 2009
• Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations, Elsevier Health Sciences
• The Macquarie Dictionary
• Marquis Who's Who in America
• Marquis Who's Who in the World
• Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607-1984
• Marquis Who Was Who in America 1985-present
• The Penguin English Dictionary

New Content

• Added 379 classical scores from Edition Peters and University Music Editions, including works by composers Anton Webern, James Dillon, Jonathan Dove, Dunstaple, Brian Ferneyhough, Philip Grange, Stephen McNeff, and Jonathan Rathbone (added to Classical Scores Library).
• 150 tracks from Rounder Records, including The 20th Anniversary Concert: Live at Carnegie Hall—The New Lost City Ramblers, Jelly Roll Morton: Anamule Dance, Tom Paxton: And Loving You, Deep River of Song: Louisiana (added to American Song).
• 470 tracks from Six Degrees Records, including Issa Bagayogo: Tassoumakan, Azam Ali: Elysium for the Brave, Spanish Harlem Orchestra: United We Swing, Gaudi / Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Dub Qawwali (added to Contemporary World Music).
• 550 pages of full-text reference, including Live at the Village Vanguard, by Max Gordon, and The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop-And Why It Matters, by Tricia Rose (added to African American Music Reference).

Content Coming Soon

• The George Balanchine Foundation (for Dance in Video). New works licensed include rare and unpublished films of the choreographer’s work.
• Charles Dennis Productions (for Dance in Video). The “Alive and Kicking” video documentary series showcases cutting-edge dance and performance artists.
• ArtHaus Musik (for Opera in Video). Works include Wagner’s Tännhauser (Camilla Nylund) 2008 performance; Verdi's Simon Boccanegra (Thomas Hampson) 2002 performance; Verdi's La Traviata (Angela Gheorghiu, Ramon Vargas) 2007 performance; and Janacek's Jenufa (Eva Marton) 2005 performance.
• Sun Records (for American Song). Artists from this legendary Nashville record label include Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Patti Page, Sleepy LaBeef, and The Dixie Cups.
• High Tone Records (for American Song). New recordings licensed include great American artists such as Honeyboy Edwards, Otis Rush, Sonny Burgess, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Tom Russell.
• Universal Edition (for Classical Scores Library). We’ve licensed 2,000 new scores from a wide variety of composers, including Berg, Berio, Boulez, Bruckner, Chopin, Debussy, Granados, Grieg, Janacek, Kodaly, Messiaen, Milhaud, Mussorgsky, Reger, Satie, Stockhausen, Weber, Webern, and more.

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.