New & Updated Electronic Resources: June 2009 Archives

New: Literary Manuscripts (Berg)

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We now have online access to a collection of Victorian-era manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library.  Authors represented in the collection include:

  • Matthew Arnold
  • The Brontes
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Robert Browning
  • Wilkie Collins
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Charles Dickens
  • George Eliot
  • George Gissing
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Henry James
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • John Ruskin
  • Alfred Tennyson
  • William Makepeace Thackeray

New Content: Blackwell Reference Online

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Our access to Blackwell Reference Online now includes over 350 titles covering all disciplines, including Anthropology, Art, Business & Management, Classics, Communication  & Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Economics, Gender Studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Race & Ethnicity Studies, Religion, and Sociology.  Prior to this, our access only included about 90 titles in the areas of Philosophy and Religion.

When complete, The Sixties will include over 150,000 pages (plus associated audio & video) of diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Spanning 1960 to 1974, The Sixties is centered on key themes that provide insight into the issues that shaped America and that still resonate in today’s debates: Arts, Music, and Leisure; Civil Rights; Counter-Culture; Environmental Movement; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Law and Government; Mass Media; New Left and Emerging Neo-Conservative Movement; Science and Technology; Student Activism; Vietnam War; and Women’s Movement.

New: Counseling & Therapy in Video

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Streaming video of counseling sessions, demonstrations, consultations, lectures, presentations, and interviews are included in Counseling & Therapy in Video, providing a rich new resource for studies in social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.  Further information is available within the database.

New: ECCO Part II

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An additional 50,000 titles, comprising 7 million pages, have been added to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).  The new content is primarly material scanned since the initial release of ECCO in 2003.  Further information about both ECCO I and ECCO II is available from the publisher site.

The Libraries’ have added the 18th Century Parliamentary Papers collection, which is cross-searchable with our existing 19th Century Collection.  As well as sessional papers from both the House of Commons and House of Lords, the Eighteenth Century collection also includes supplementary material: the Journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords; Private and Local Bills and Acts; debates (from the Parliamentary Register); and Histories and Proceedings of the House of Commons and House of Lords.  More details about the new collection are available.

Enhancement to Proquest Historical New York Times

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The Historical New York Times now includes indexing terms from the venerable New York Times Index.  Researchers can now search the New York Times more precisely by making use of 5 new search fields: subject, location, person, creative works, and company/organization.  The indexing coverage extends through 1993.

The electronic backfiles of the Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001) and the Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) have been added to our collection of Black Historical Newspapers.

Periodicals Index / Archive Update 6/26/09

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Full-text of the following 50 titles were recently added to Periodicals Archive Online.  Of particular note is the full backfile of The Spectator [1828-2000], the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language.

  • American journal of Islamic social sciences
    Coverage: 1984-2000
  • American journal of semiotics
    Coverage: 1981, 1983-1984, 1986-2000 only
  • Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik
    Coverage: 1972-1988, 1990-1997, 1999-2000 only
  • The Beethoven journal
    Coverage: 1986-2000
  • Behavior and philosophy
    Coverage: 1972-2000
  • The Bucknell review
    Coverage: 1941-1963, 1965-1995 only
  • Daphnis
    Coverage: 1972-2000
  • The Eighteenth century
    Coverage: 1959-2000
  • European Judaism
    Coverage: 1966-2000
  • Explorations in Renaissance culture
    Coverage: 1974-1993, 1995-2000 only
  • Fifteenth century studies
    Coverage: 1978-1988, 1990-2000 only
  • French politics, culture and society
    Coverage: 1985-1986, 1988-2000 only
  • Geography : journal of the Geographical Association
    Coverage: 1902-1909, 1911-2000 only
  • George Herbert journal
    Coverage: 1977-2000
  • German politics and society
    Coverage: 1983-1995 only
  • Goethe yearbook
    Coverage: 1982-1992, 1996-2000 only
  • Grazer philosophische Studien
    Coverage: 1975-2000
  • Harvard Ukrainian studies
    Coverage: 1977-2000
  • Higher education review
    Coverage: 1968-1995 only
  • Historical reflections/Réflexions historiques
    Coverage: 1974-1990, 1992-1995 only
  • Indian economic journal
    Coverage: 1953-1955, 1958-1961, 1963-1969, 1971-1975, 1977-1980, 1982, 1984-1995 only
  • Islamic quarterly
    Coverage: 1956, 1959-1965, 1967-1978, 1980-1991, 1993-1995 only
  • Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
    Coverage: 1936-1997, 1999-2000 only
  • Journal of band research
    Coverage: 1964-2000
  • Journal of Canadian studies/Revue d'études canadiennes
    Coverage: 1966-2000
  • The Journal of Caribbean history
    Coverage: 1970-1997, 1999-2000 only
  • A Journal of church and state
    Coverage: 1959-2000
  • Journal of comparative family studies
    Coverage: 1970-1995 only
  • The Journal of psychohistory
    Coverage: 1973-2001
  • Journal of rehabilitation
    Coverage: 1939-1945, 1947-1986 only
  • Journal of sport behavior
    Coverage: 1980-2000 only
  • Journal of thought
    Coverage: 1967-1995 only
  • JPMS : Journal of political and military sociology
    Coverage: 1973-2000
  • Judaism
    Coverage: 1952-2000
  • London magazine
    Coverage: 1954-1960, 1962-1980, 1982-1995, 1997-2001 only
  • The Negro educational review
    Coverage: 1950-1989, 1994-1995 only
  • Pacific linguistics. Series A
    Coverage: 1963-1998
  • Pacific studies
    Coverage: 1977-1980, 1982-1992, 1994 only
  • Perspektiven der Philosophie
    Coverage: 1969-1984, 1987-2000 only
  • The Psychoanalytic review (1913-1957)
    Coverage: 1913-1923, 1940-1957 only
  • Rural sociology
    Coverage: 1936-1945, 1947-1956, 1958-1959, 1961, 1963-1964, 1966-1967, 1969-1975, 1989-1995 only
  • Social analysis
    Coverage: 1979-1995 only
  • Social justice : a journal of crime, conflict and world order
    Coverage: 1974-1980, 1982-2000 only
  • Sociological focus
    Coverage: 1971-2000 only
  • The Spectator
    Coverage: 1828-2000
  • Studia Leibnitiana
    Coverage: 1969-1995 only
  • Theatre history studies
    Coverage: 1981, 1983-2000 only
  • Theoria
    Coverage: 1947-2000
  • Visible language
    Coverage: 1967-2000
  • The Western journal of black studies
    Coverage: 1977-2000

The following 34 titles were recently added to Periodicals Index Online:

  • Biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo, Boletín
  • Englishwoman
  • Essays in Arts and Sciences
  • European Journal of Marketing
  • Hespéris Tamuda
  • Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Instituto
  • International Journal on World Peace
  • International Statistical Review/Revue International de Statistique
  • Journal des économistes
  • Journal of Agricultural Science
  • Journal of Curriculum Studies
  • Judges' Journal
  • Library Administration and Management
  • Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
  • McGill Journal of Education
  • Messenger
  • Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift
  • Minerva (1962)
  • Northern Architect
  • Ohio Educational Monthly
  • Omega
  • Pacific Viewpoint
  • Presidential Studies Quarterly
  • Public Welfare
  • Regional Studies
  • School and College
  • Scots Magazine
  • Serials Librarian
  • Spectator
  • Theatre Record
  • Threepenny Review
  • Universitas
  • Wilson Quarterly

JSTOR Update 6/25/09

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The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Arion
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=arion
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1962) - Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter, 1970);
New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1973) - New Series, Vol. 3, No. 4 (1976);
Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1990) - Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Winter, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Trustees of Boston University
ISSN: 0095-5809

The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=bulleclevmuseart
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1914) - Vol. 81, No. 10 (December, 1994)
Publication ceased in 1994.
Publisher: The Cleveland Museum of Art
ISSN: 0009-8841

Historia Mexicana
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=histmex
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (July/September, 1951) - Vol. 57, No. 2 (October/December, 2007)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: El Colegio De Mexico
ISSN: 0185-0172

The Iowa Review
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=iowareview
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1970) - Vol. 35, No. 3 (Winter, 2005/2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: The University of Iowa
ISSN: 0021-065X

The Journal of Infectious Diseases
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jinfedise
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 2, 1904) - Vol. 188, No. 12 (December 15, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 0022-1899

The Journal of Pacific History
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jpacihist
Release Content:
Vol. 1 (1966) - Vol. 38, No. 3 (December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
ISSN: 0022-3344

Minnesota History [1925- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=minnhist
Previous Title: Minnesota History Bulletin [1915-1924] (0190-6348)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=minnhistbull
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (February, 1915) - Vol. 59, No. 8 (Winter, 2005/2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISSN: 0026-5497

The North American Review [1821- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=nortamerrev
Previous Title: The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal [1815-1821] (1945-7863)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=nortamerrevmiscj
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (May, 1815) - Vol. 12, No. 31 (April, 1821);
Vol. 13, No. 32 (July, 1821) - Vol. 290, No. 6 (November/December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of Northern Iowa
ISSN: 0029-2397

ABI/INFORM Content Update June 2009

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ABI/INFORM Complete has added the following:

1) Nearly 700 country-focused industry reports with SWOT analysis, market trends, forecasts and competitive data from BMI (Business Monitor International)

2) 30,000 articles and a new set of Country Profiles from OxResearch Daily Briefing Service by OxFord Analytica.

The daily briefs are objective, multidisciplinary articles compiled by an international network of over 1,000 economists, international relations, and political/social experts at Oxford and other leading universities, as well as think-tanks and other institutions of international standing. They cover worldwide developments of significance in more than 180 countries: events, significance, analysis, & conclusions and date back to 1986.

The Country Profiles are brief overviews for 75 countries incorporating economic, political, and geographical data.

America's Historical Newspapers Content Update: 6/9/09

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

Publication Issues Publication Location Date Start Date End
Gazette-Telegraph 3 Colorado Springs, CO 1913-11-23 1915-06-28
Times Picayune 277 New Orleans, LA 1861-12-10 1897-02-01
Boston Journal 458 Boston, MA 1874-01-01 1889-12-31
Baltimore American 4 Balitmore, MD 1905-09-09 1912-01-07
Gazette of Maine 104 Portland, ME 1825-01-01 1826-12-26
Albany Evening Journal 125 Albany, NY 1854-04-11 1874-06-29
New York Herald 723 New York, NY 1867-05-24 1870-12-24
New Yorker Volkszeitung 2561 New York, NY 1889-01-06 1898-12-31
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune 419 Cincinnati, OH 1879-09-01 1887-04-30
Philadelphia Inquirer 4232 Philadelphia, PA 1834-06-02 1860-10-31
Public Ledger 270 Philadelphia, PA 1859-01-01 1869-11-26
Salt Lake Telegram 1 Salt Lake City, UT 1904-02-23  
Milwaukee'r Socialist 3 Milwaukee, WI 1876-09-22 1877-09-21

New Content:

  • Contemporary World Music was updated with 448 albums—a total of 6,447 tracks, taking the total count to 1,530 albums and 20,682 tracks. Record labels added include ARC Music, Blue Flame Records, Intersound, Karuna, Triloka, Rounder Records, Sheridan Square Records, and Six Degrees Records. There’s a little of everything in this round of content uploads—from Afrobeat, electronic lounge music, rembetika, and belly dance, to reggae and dub. Some of the new albums added include: 80 Years: London Jewish Male Choir; Bobi Céspedes: Rezos; Cinematic: Classic Film Music Remixed;Cutting Razor–Rare Cuts From The Black Ark; Emad Sayyah: Ma Ajmal Beirut–Modern Bellydance from Lebanon; and Hugh Masekela: Hope.
  • A total of 278 new scores and 16,164 pages were added to Classical Scores Library, taking the total to 12,644 scores and 229,586 pages. The new scores come from Edition Peters and University Music Editions. New opera scores and libretti come from the collection French Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries, housed at the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation. New scores include works by: Delius, Destouches, Devienne, Dove, Le Sueur, Lully, Maw, Mehul, Piccinni, Rameau, Rathbone, Reich, Salieri, Satie, and many others.

Content Coming Soon:

  • Opus Arte (for Opera in Video): More than 200 hours of video, including the complete operas of Monteverdi & Wagner; five Rameau and twelve Verdi operas; plus gems such as John Adams's Doctor Atomic, Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, and Messiaen's St. Francois d'Assisse. Venues include the Royal Opera House, Teatro Real, Glyndebourne, and the Paris Opera.
  • New recordings from Folk Era Records (for American Song) include The Kingston Trio, Glenn Yarbrough, The Highwaymen, and Paul Robeson.

ARTstor Update 6/8/09

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ARTstor has announced the following:

Collection agreement: Fondazione Federico Zeri (Università di Bologna) archive images
ARTstor is collaborating with the Fondazione Federico Zeri, Università di Bologna to share approximately 25,900 photographs of 16th century Italian paintings in the Digital Library.

Now available in ARTstor: Korean Buddhist monasteries and temples
ARTstor has collaborated with Carl and Jennifer Strom to digitize and distribute more than 3,200 images from the unique Strom Archive of the art and architecture from Buddhist monasteries and temples in Korea.

First images from the American Institute of Indian Studies now in ARTstor
More than 12,000 images from The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) documenting art and architecture in India are now available in ARTstor.

JSTOR Update 6/8/09

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The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

The Annual of the British School at Athens
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annubritschoathe
Release Content:
Vols. 1- 98 (1894/1895 - 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The British School at Athens
ISSN: 0068-2454

Asian Ethnology
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=asianeth
Release Content:
Vol. 67, Nos. 1-2 (2008)
Moving Wall: Zero
Publisher: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
ISSN: 1882-6865
Note: In 2008, Asian Folklore Studies became Asian Ethnology. Content for this title is released as soon as the latest issues become available to JSTOR.

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=bullecosociamer
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1917) - Vol. 83, No. 2 (April, 2002)
Moving Wall: N/A
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
ISSN: 0012-9623
Note: The remaining content for 2002 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR. Beginning with Vol. 84, No. 1 (2003), this journal has been published online.

Harvard Review [1992- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=harvardreview
Previous Title: Harvard Book Review [1989-1991] (1080-6067)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=harvardbookrev
Previous Title: Erato [1986-1988] (0898-073X)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=erato
Release Content:
Nos. 1 - 9/10 (1986-1988);
Nos. 11/12 - 19/20 (1989- 1991);
Nos. 1-29 (1992- 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library
ISSN: 1077-2901

Jewish History
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jewhist
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1986) - Vol. 19, No. 3/4 (2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0334-701X

Journal of American Studies [1967- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jamerstud
Previous Title: Bulletin. British Association for American Studies [1960-1966] (0524-5001)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=bulbritasamerst
Release Content:
Nos. 1 - 12/13 (September, 1960 - 1966);
Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1967) - Vol. 37, No. 3 (December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Association for American Studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Note: The content for 1956-1959 will be released as soon as the issue becomes available to JSTOR.

Journal of Religion and Health
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jrelihealth
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 1961) - Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0022-4197

Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science [1978- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jariznevaacadsci
Previous Title: Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science [1959-1977] (0004-1378)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jarizacadsci
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (June, 1959) - Vol. 39, No. 2 (2007)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
ISSN: 0193-8509
Note: The content for 2004-2006 will be released as soon as the issue becomes available to JSTOR.

Revista de Historia de América
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=revihistamer
Release Content:
Nos. 4-133 (December, 1938 - July/December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Pan American Institute of Geography and History
ISSN: 0034-8325
Note: The content for Nos. 1-4 (1938) will be released as soon as the issue becomes available to JSTOR.

Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=studaltakult
Release Content:
Bde. 1- 31 (1974-2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag GmbH
ISSN: 0340-2215

U.S. Catholic Historian
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=uscathhist
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall, 1980) - Vol. 21, No. 4 (Fall, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
ISSN: 0735-8318

New & Updated Titles in Credo Reference

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Credo Reference recently added the following new or updated titles:

New

  • Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters, Chambers Harrap
  • The Elgar Companion to Consumer Research and Economics Psychology, Edward Elgar
  • The Elgar Dictionary of Economic Quotations, Edward Elgar
  • A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy, Edward Elgar
  • The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function and Disorders, Dorling Kindersley
  • Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches, Perseus

Updated

  • Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, Barron's
  • Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science, Elsevier
  • The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography in Science
  • Mosby's Dental Dictionary, Elsevier
  • The New Food Lover's Companion, Barron's
  • The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography, Macmillan
  • The Wisden Archive of Cricketers' Lives 2009

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