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New E-Resources: 1999

  • December 15, 1999: Conservation Information Network. This resource provides access to citations and abstracts for technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles, books, audiovisual and unpublished materials related to the conservation and restoration of cultural property, issued by the Canadian Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, Getty Conservation Institute, International Centre for the Study of the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, International Council of Museums, International Council on Monuments and Sites, and Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts.

     

  • December 9, 1999: Water Resources Abstracts. This resource provides access to citations and abstracts for materials related to desalination, engineering works and hydraulics, erosion and sedimentation, estuaries, groundwater, lakes, water law, water quality management and control, water resources planning, water supply and conservation, water yield improvement, and watershed protection.

     

  • December 2, 1999: EIU Country Data, an analytical database of worldwide economic indicators and forecasts, covering more than 270 statistical variables in series for each of 115 countries. Data can be manipulated, displayed, graphed, analyzed and downloaded in various formats. Major data categories include economic structure, foreign payments, external debt stock, external debt service, external trade, trends in foreign trade, quarterly indicators.

     

  • November 19, 1999: Nichigai. This resource provides access to citations for articles in more than 6,000 scholarly and popular Japanese periodicals. It indexes all fields in the humanities and social sciences. To use this service you need a browser that can display Japanese fonts.

     

  • November 11, 1999: Francis. This resource provides access to citations, mostly with abstracts, for periodicals, books, theses, reports and conference proceedings, with an emphasis on Western European publications. It indexes mainly journals relating to the humanities and social sciences, and includes some journals in law, health sciences and technology.

     

  • November 3, 1999: Kalorama Academic. This resource provides access to hundreds of full-text market research abstracts and reports written by well-known market research firms and covering a large number of products and services.

     

  • October 19, 1999: NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research. This resource provides access to full-text, citations, and abstracts for NBER working papers, Digest, Reporter, business cycle data, research programs, and staff directory. It includes a listing of recent books and free downloads of current NBER research.

     

  • October 14, 1999: More than 40 New Online Books from Columbia University Press and Oxford University Press are now available on LibraryWeb. The Online Books Evaluation Project is a project of Academic Information Systems and the Libraries. It is a component of the Columbia University Digital Library, funded in part by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

     

  • October 8, 1999: the Civil Engineering Database. This resource provides access to citations and abstracts for all ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) publications. Subject areas include: aerospace engineering, architectural engineering, bridges, cold regions, construction, earthquake engineering, engineering mechanics, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, highways, hydrology, hydraulics, structural engineering, transportation, urban planning, and waterway, port, coastal and ocean engineering.

     

  • September 24, 1999: the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (UN). This United Nations resource provides access to monthly statistics for the most recently available 18 months, and annually, for the last seven years, for more than 200 countries.

     

  • September 20, 1999: Archival Resources. This resource provides access to a growing range of online finding aids -- the detailed collection guides or inventories that reveal where an archival collection came from, how it is arranged, and what it contains. Archival Resources also includes catalog records describing archival collections (the RLIN AMC database). Both the catalog records and detailed collection guides can provide a further resource: a link to digitized archival materials.

     

  • September 15, 1999: Women's Resources International. This resource provides access to citations for journal articles, books, and essays in books covering women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory and criticism.

     

  • September 14, 1999: Statistical Universe. This resource provides access to citations and abstracts for statistical information from the U.S. government, international intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), state governments, and private sources. Some items have links to full-text. It includes material from American Statistics Index (ASI), Index to International Statistics (IIS), and Statistical Reference Index (SRI).

     

  • August 20, 1999: International Political Science Abstracts. This resource provides access to citations, mostly with abstracts, for articles in the field of political science (including the sub-fields of public administration, political theory and international relations) published in approximately 840 journals and yearbooks all over the world. Major journals are covered in full; less important journals, journals in related fields, and general interest periodicals are covered selectively, although studies concerning countries where political science is not well-developed, or for which information is scarce, are covered less selectively.

     

  • August 19, 1999: The Databases, Reference Works & Indexes page now has links to America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts. These resources provide access to citations and abstracts for articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations on world history, from more than 2100 journals in 40 languages, as well as from a selection of volumes of essays.

    America: History & Life covers U.S. and Canadian history, from prehistory to the present.

    Historical Abstracts covers world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present.

     

  • August 12, 1999: the Grove Dictionary of Art Online. This resource provides access to full-text of the Dictionary of Art (41,000 articles) with linked images (over 45,000, to be over 100,000 by the end of 1999), including the Bridgeman Art Archive, and links to other sites (museums, galleries, etc.). Subjects covered include archaeology, architecture, art, art historiography, art history, connoiseurship, decorative arts, drawing, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, provenance, sculpture, and textiles.

     

  • August 11, 1999: Springer Link. This resource provides access to full-text journal articles from Springer-Verlag science, technology, and medicine journals. It provides access to all of the Springer-Verlag journals that Columbia University Libraries subscribes to in their print versions. The service is available on a trial basis until August 31, 1999.

     

  • July 30, 1999: PCI: Periodicals Contents Index. This resource is an international, interdisciplinary index especially useful for finding articles published in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. It indexes more than 2,300 journals from their beginning issues through 1991, covering anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, black studies, business, economics, education, ethnology, geography, history, humanities, Jewish studies, law, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, social sciences, women's studies and many other subjects.

     

  • July 29, 1999: the Current Index to Statistics (CIS). This resource provides access to citations for articles in all areas of statistics. It covers journals, books, edited books and conference proceedings, including 106 core journals plus 900 non-core journals and 8000 books published since 1974. It also contains citations from Statistical Theory and Methods Abstracts.

     

  • July 23, 1999: The end-user document delivery service feature of UnCover is now available to users of Reference Tools & Indexes. Columbia University Libraries is offering subsidized periodical article delivery and current awareness services for journal contents indexed in the UnCover database. Members of the Columbia community having a valid Columbia email account can request faxed copies of journal articles in the UnCover database provided a) the journals are not held by Columbia University Libraries and b) the UnCover article delivery fee is not greater than $30.00. Within these restrictions, the cost of article delivery is paid by Columbia University Libraries; other articles may be purchased directly by the user if desired.

    Reveal is a "current awareness" tables of contents service via email. This service is available without cost to Columbia users via the UnCover gateway.

     

  • June 2, 1999: Greenwire, a comprehensive daily briefing service on environmental news and events, on the state, national, and international levels. It is produced by the National Journal and as part of our Greenwire subscription, we also have access to National Journal's Cloakroom, a variety of political information resources including a directory of Washington, D.C. government, policy, and political entities, and The Almanac of American Politics, a leading reference book of American politics.

     

  • May 17, 1999: The Databases, Reference Works & Indexes page now has links to ArticleFirst and ContentsFirst which provide citations, abstracts, and tables of contents for more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

    ArticleFirst provides access to citations and abstracts for articles, news stories, letters, and other items described on journal table of contents pages. ContentsFirst provides access to the journal table of contents pages themselves.

     

  • May 14, 1999: The Databases, Reference Works & Indexes page now has a links to PapersFirst and ProceedingsFirst.

    PapersFirst provides access to citations for published papers given at conferences and symposia: papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library. This resource is particularly useful for finding individual papers given at conferences and symposia.

    ProceedingsFirst provides access to citations for published proceedings of conferences and symposia: every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library. Use this resource to find out if entire proceedings have been published, not to find individual papers given at conferences or symposia.

     

  • April 30, 1999: POPLINE. This resource provides access to citations and abstracts for publications related to population, family planning, and related health issues. It has more than 200,000 citations with detailed abstracts and in-depth indexing, and covers all types of publications including journals, monographs, and technical reports.

     

  • April 28, 1999: Several new Online Books were recently added to LibraryWeb. The Online Books Evaluation Project is a project of Academic Information Systems and the Libraries. It is a component of the Columbia University Digital Library, funded in part by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.   Complete List of Online Books

     

  • April 24, 1999: "Interactive Services" are here at last! Now you can use LibraryWeb to:
    • Ask a Reference Question
    • Request an Item through Interlibrary Loan
    • Request an Article in Science, Technology or Medicine
    • Request an Item from Annex, Prentis, Offsite collections
    • Request an Item that's On Order or In-Process
    • Forward a Book Purchase Recommendation
    • View Library Items Checked Out to You
    • Report a Problem (with use of electronic resources)
    • Make a Suggestion (about LibraryWeb)

    When you connect to LibraryWeb, activate the Interactive Services Pop-Up Menu -- This will allow you to use Interactive Services wherever you are in LibraryWeb.

     

  • April 15, 1999: Dow Jones Interactive, providing access to full-text news stories and the latest data on companies and financial markets. This resource is a searchable full-text database of 6,000 newswires, newspapers, magazines and trade journals. It contains comparative data on companies and industries, and company SEC filings.

     

  • March 8, 1999: Metadex. This resource provides access to citations and abstracts for publications related to the science and technology of metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. It covers journals and trade magazines, conference proceedings, government reports, patents, dissertations, and books. Metadex corresponds to Metals Abstracts, Metals Abstracts Index and Alloys Index.

     

  • February 26, 1999: Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI). This resource provides access to citations to identify and evaluate measurement tests used in health and psychosocial studies.

     

  • February 11, 1999: NTIS: National Technical Information Service Database. This resource provides access to citations and abstracts for technical reports of government sponsored research. It covers unclassified technical reports of U.S. government sponsored research, development, and engineering projects by federal agencies, their contractors, or grantees. It also includes some state and local government sponsored research reports and some foreign government-sponsored research.

     

  • February 3, 1999: Anthropological Index Online. This resource provides access to citations for journal articles in the field of anthropology. It is an index to ca. 800 anthropological journals currently received by the Museum of Mankind Library, London (British Museum), which incorporates the former Royal Anthropological Institute library. Coverage includes bibliographies and obituaries.

     

  • February 2, 1999: Biological Abstracts. This is the most comprehensive index for the life sciences. All of biology, plant and animal science, ecology, and paleontology are covered. Interdisciplinary fields such as pharmacology, biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering are also included.

     

  • February 1, 1999: Oceanic Abstracts. This resource provides access to citations and abstracts for materials related to marine literature. An index to the worldwide technical literature pertaining to marine and brackish water environments, it covers more than 515 journals along with books, conference papers and dissertations.

     

  • January 22, 1999: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts. This resource provides access to citations and abstracts for materials related to the aquatic sciences. It covers more than 5,000 serials, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature.

     

  • January 20, 1999: EIU ViewsWire. This resource consists of daily detailed analytical reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit on news and economic trends in every country of the world. It provides data, views, analysis, and synthesis on key economic, political and business developments, with 100-150 full-text daily analytical articles on over 190 countries. It supports navigation by country, by subject and by searching, including the option to set up a range of personal profiles. The content is divided into three main sections: briefings, forecasts, and background reports.

     

  • January 14, 1999: the Index to Nineteenth Century American Art Periodicals. This resource provides access to citations for articles, poems, illustrations, and advertisements in 42 American art periodicals from 1840-1907.

     

  • January 13, 1999: Net Advantage. This resource includes electronic versions of ten Standard & Poor's publications providing company, industry, and market specific information and data: Standard & Poor's Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Mutual Funds, Outlook, Register, Stock Guide, and Stock Reports.

     

  • January 13, 1999: ScienceDirect. This resource contains full-text articles from more than 1000 journals published by Elsevier Science. It also contains abstracts from the core journals in the major scientific disciplines.

     

  • January 11, 1999: The Wall Street Transcript. This resource contains securities reports and analyses of stock market trends from brokerage houses, interviews with CEO's and money managers; also covers the art market.

 
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