New & Updated Electronic Resources: October 2009 Archives

ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Medieval stained glass images from Madeline Caviness
ARTstor has collaborated with Madeline Caviness to digitize approximately 1,400 images of medieval stained glass windows from the 12th through 16th centuries, now available in the Digital Library.

Now available: South Asian and Cuban art and architecture from Alka Patel
Approximately 7,200 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture from Alka Patel are now available in the Digital Library.

Now available: Additional images from Magnum Photos
The final images of the Magnum Photos collection are now available in ARTstor. This second release brings the collection total to approximately 80,000 high-quality photographs of major world events and personalities by this world-renowned group of documentary photographers.

Credo Reference recently added the following new titles:

• Encyclopedia of Emapcipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World, from M.E. Sharpe
• Encyclopedia of World Trade from Ancient Times to the Present, from M.E. Sharpe
• First Ladies of the United States, from Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Great Irish Lives: An Era in Obituaries, from Collins
• Great Lives: A Century in Obituaries, from Collins
• Great Military Lives: Leadership and Courage - from Waterloo to the Falklands in Obituaries, from Collins
• Great Thinkers A-Z, from Continuum
• Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries, from Collins
• Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, from Edinburgh University Press
• Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, from Edinburgh University Press
• Philosophy of Science A-Z, from Edinburgh University Press
• The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places and Operations, from M.E. Sharpe

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Asian Affairs [1973- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=asianaffairs
Previous Title: Southeast Asian Perspectives [1971-1973] (0042-577X)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=soutasiapers
Previous Title: Vietnam Perspectives [1965-1967] (0506-9823)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=vietpers
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (August, 1965) – Vol. 3, No. 2 (November, 1967);
Nos. 2-9 (1971-1973);
Vol. 1, No. 1 (September/October, 1973) – Vol. 30, No. 3 (Fall, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Heldref Publications
ISSN: 0092-7678
Note: The content for No. 1 (1971) and No. 10 (1973) will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Russian Linguistics
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=russling
Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (July, 1974) – Vol. 29, No. 3 (2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0304-3487

The University of Miami Inter-American Law Review [1984- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=umiaintlawrev
Previous Title: Lawyer of the Americas [1969-1984] (0023-9445)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=lawyeramericas
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (February, 1969) – Vol. 15, No. 3 (Winter, 1984);
Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1984) – Vol. 38, No. 2 (Winter, 2006/2007)
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: Joe Christensen, Inc.
ISSN: 0884-1756

The following content was recently added to:

America's Historical Newspapers

Latin American Newspapers

ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Photographs of American Architecture by Dov Friedman
Approximately 560 new photographs depicting historic and contemporary architecture in the United States are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.

Additional art and architecture images from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Slide Library now available
An additional 695 images selected from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) Visual Resources Collection and depicting works of art and architecture are now available in ARTstor.

Additional Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites from Bryn Mawr College now in ARTstor
An additional 1,569 images of archaeological sites and architectural monuments from Bryn Mawr College are now available in the Digital Library.

American History in Video is available through Nov 15, 2009.  It includes streaming videos from PBS (the Civil War, Jazz, etc.), the History Channel, and Bullfrog Films, as well as old movie house newsreels.  Feedback is welcomed.

Two new titles have recently been added to Cambridge Companions Online:

• Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism
• Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 is available thru 10/31/09.  Feedback is welcome. [More info]

Black Abolitionist Papers is available thru 11/5/09.  Use welcome when asked for a password. [Feedback] [More info]

Paley Center Seminars is available thru 10/22/09.  Use welcome when asked for a password. [Feedback] [More info]

We have a new trial of ebrary, an online collection of more than 40,000 eBooks from scores of publishers.  The trial runs until the end of October and is only available from on campus. A 2 page Quick Start guide is available to orient you to the service. We are very interested in your feedback.

HeinOnline now includes a new module covering the history of taxation and economic reform in the U.S.  [More info]

A collection of Handbooks in Sage eReference are available for trial thru the end of October.

New Titles in Oxford Reference Online:

• The Oxford Book of Health Foods
• The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age,
• A Dictionary of Creation Myths
• The New Oxford Companion to Law

New Editions/Revisions:

• The Oxford Companion to English Literature
• The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
• A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (formerly A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art)