- South African Studies, a searchable index to
publications and unpublished manuscripts about and from South
Africa in the social sciences, law, the humanities, and the
arts. This resource is a composite of 9 different databases
published in South Africa: The South African National
Bibliography ; Index to South African Periodicals ; National
English Literary Museum -- NELM Main Catalog ; NELM Select
Index to South African Literature in English: Critical and
Creative Writings ; NELM Manuscripts ; NELM Literary Awards ;
Investors' Guide ; Witwatersrand University Management
Research Reports ; Centre for Rural Legal Studies ; South
African Legal Abbreviations. (12/21/00)
- Libros en Venta, bibliographic information
about books in print and recently out of print in the Spanish
language from all countries on all subjects. The information is
provided by over 10,000 publishers. (12/5/00)
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, the
online version of the popular ready reference book of chemical
and physical data, including acoustics, analytical chemistry,
astronomy, atomic physics, biochemistry, chemical physics,
chemistry, electrochemistry, fluids, geophysics, kinetics,
mathematical tables, molecular physics, molecular structure,
nomenclature, nuclear physics, optical physics, particle
physics, physical chemistry, physics, polymer, solids,
spectroscopy, and thermochemistry. (11/29/00)
- National Atlas of the United States, an
interactive, digital atlas featuring small-scale maps, national
geospatial and geostatistical data sets, easy-to use online
interactive maps, dynamic multimedia maps, and documentation.
(11/29/00)
- Standard & Poor's ExecuComp,
compensation data for directors and executives. This full-text
resource contains three years of compensation history for
directors and current compensation for executives for companies
within the S&P 1500. (11/20/00)
- Music Index, citations for articles in 640
music periodicals. A broad range of subjects are indexed,
covering musicological or organological topics, plus book
reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
(11/16/2000)
- Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext, a database
of abstracts and full-text articles appearing in over 100 MCB
University Press journals in the fields of management and
engineering, covering such specific subject areas as:
information management; marketing; property; training and
education; human resource management; library and information
services; operations, production and economics; quality; and
engineering and material science. (11/9/2000)
- Visible Earth, an image collection of Earth
science-related visualizations and images, collected from
numerous NASA projects from 1970 to the present.
(1/7/2000)
- Journal Citation Reports, a comprehensive and
unique resource tool for Journal Citation and Article Counts,
Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Cited Half-Life, Citing
Half-Life, Source Data Listing, etc., covering 8,400 journals
in the sciences and social sciences. (11/3/2000)
- New Grove Dictionary of Opera, containing
11,000 articles by over 1300 scholars and critics on all
aspects of opera, including composers, librettists, social
history, singers, conductors, directors, cities, opera houses,
costumes, choreography and set design. The online update
service covers obituaries, premihres and major events. External
links offer access to related sites on the web, including links
to over 550 images. (11/1/2000)
- AP Photo Archive, an Associated Press photo
archive of 500,000 images from 1844 to the present.
(10/31/2000)
- European Access Plus, citations and abstracts
for documents regarding the issues, people and policies of the
European Union and the wider Europe, including many links to
full-text information. (10/26/2000)
- Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Collection of
Ethnography, a collection of full-text primary source
materials on ca. 400 different cultural, ethnic, religious and
national groups in the following regions of the world: Asia,
Europe, Africa, Middle East, North America, Oceania, Eurasia
and South America. Access is via keyword, as well as through
geographic (OWC) codes and a topical (OCM) classification
scheme. (10/18/2000)
- Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro, a
full-text database containing more than 800 plays written by 16
dramatists from sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. Plays
are reproduced in full from early published editions of the
works. Includes associated texts, stage directions, and
frontmatter. (10/18/2000)
- United Nations Treaty Collection, full-text
of the United Nations Treaty Series, the current status of the
Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, and
texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties.
(10/18/2000)
- ATLA Religion Database, citations and
abstracts for articles in religion periodicals and other
publications. This resource is a fairly comprehensive list of
religion periodicals with extensive coverage of essay
collections and Festschriften, covering biblical commentary,
mission activity, and theology in addition to religion.
(10/10/2000)
- Kluwer Online, full-text access to selected
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Kluwer Law International, Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Publishers and Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences
Press journals covering business, chemistry, computer science,
earth science, education, engineering, finance, law, life
science, management, mathematics, medicine, physics,
psychology, and statistics. (10/4/2000)
- Sports Business Research Network: SBRnet, a
continuously updated resource providing market research and
industry news on all aspects of sporting goods, sports
equipment, participation, broadcasting, and marketing.
(9/29/2000)
- Chem Sources International, an international
directory of producers and/or distributors of over 240,000
chemicals in all classifications such as aliphatics, aromatics,
biochemicals, flavors, fragrances, immunochemicals, inorganics,
organics, pharmaceuticals, radiochemicals, reagents, etc.
including chemical names, registry numbers, rates of purity,
and lists of suppliers with contact information.
(9/15/2000)
- Jupiter Communications, providing access to
Internet economy analysis including comprehensive views of
industry trends, accurate forecasts, and today's best
practices, all backed by proprietary data. (9/15/2000)
- Zoological Record, citations for articles in
4,500 journals from 100 countries, as well as published
symposia, meetings, workshops, books, and software covering
conservation, environmental science, freshwater biology, marine
biology, parasitology, taxonomy, veterinary science, and
zoology. (9/15/2000)
- Biography Resource Center with Marquis Who's
Who, full-text biographical information on over one million
people throughout world history and from all over the world,
with information taken from many standard biographical
directories, articles from 250 magazines, and more than 900,000
"thumbnail biographies" from the Marquis Who's
Who publications. (9/12/2000)
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, citations
and abstracts for journals and monographs, including
festschriften and conference proceedings. Subjects covered
include ethnomusicology, music literature, music theory, and
musicology. (9/11/2000)
- Declassified Documents Reference System -
U.S., full text of previously classified U.S. government
documents, from 1945 to the present, with searching by keyword,
type, source institution, classification level, sanitation,
completeness, date declassified, and issue date.
(9/11/2000)
- College Source, over 14,000 full-text college
catalogs from nearly 4,000 U.S. colleges and universities,
including two year, four year and graduate institutions, law,
medical and specialty schools, plus 700 international schools.
(9/6/2000)
- HarpWeek, page images of Harper's Weekly,
the popular illustrated American magazine, covering the years
1857 to 1876, a rich record of all aspects of life during those
years. Contents may be accessed by any of four detailed
indexes: subjects, illustrations, literature and publishing,
and advertising. (9/25/2000)
- LION: Literature Online, a fully searchable
library of more than 290,000 works of English and American
poetry, drama, and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and
key secondary sources. This resource covers the Anglo-Saxon
period to the 20th century, and includes separate access to
specialized collections, including Bible in English and
editions and adaptations of Shakespeare. (8/25/2000)
- Middle English Compendium, lexical,
bibliographic, and full-text resources for the study of Middle
English. This service is an interlocking collection of Middle
English resources, including an electronic version of The
Middle English Dictionary, an extensive HyperBibliography of
Middle English texts, and a searchable corpus of Middle English
poetry and prose. (8/25/2000)
- Nurimedia Korean Studies DB Series, a
full-text collection of Korean classical books on history from
early to 14th century (Three Kingdom to Koryo Dynasty),
Tripitaka Koreana and Yi Kyu-bo's literary works, in Korean
translation and in the classical Chinese-language original. To
use this service you need a browser that can display Korean
fonts. (8/24/2000)
- Jane's Online, the leading source for
defense and military information. This resource provides
full-text access to a subset of the entire Jane's Online
databases, including Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's
International Defense Review, Jane's Intelligence Review,
Foreign Report, Jane's Fighting Ships, Jane's All the
World's Aircraft, Jane's World Defence Industry,
Jane's Sentinel Security Assessments, Jane's
Intelligence Watch Report, Jane's Terrorism Watch Report,
Jane's Counter Terrorism, Jane's World Insurgency and
Terrorism, Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook, Jane's Chem-Bio
Review, Jane's Geopolitical Special Reports.
(8/14/2000)
- Synergy, an online journal service from
Blackwell Science and Munksgaard providing full-text access to
over 250 electronic journals in science, technology and
medicine. (8/8/2000)
- Leadership Directories (Yellow Books), the
"Who's Who" in the leadership of the U.S.,
providing full-text access to all 14 Leadership Directories,
also known as the Yellow Books. (8/4/2000)
- Refworld, a collection of full-text databases
representing the most comprehensive and reliable refugee
information resource available, provided by the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees. Includes maps.
(7/21/2000)
- National Statistics: the Official UK Statistics
Site, a comprehensive range of official UK statistics and
information about statistics. The statistics are arranged in
themes: agriculture, commerce & industry, compendia &
reference, crime & justice, education & training,
health & care, labour market, natural & built
environment, population & migration, social & welfare,
travel & tourism, and other. The latest economic indicators
are also included. (7/21/2000)
- MEDLINEplus, a comprehensive gateway for
information on health and medicine including citations,
abstracts, and directory listings. This resource is published
by the National Library of Medicine, and includes links to
databases, medical dictionaries, pharmaceutical information and
lists of medical resources. (7/20/2000)
- U.S. Newspapers in the Columbia University
Libraries, a checklist, with holdings and locations, of
American newspapers. This resource lists United States
newspapers held in paper, on microfilm, or available through
various online resources, from 1704 to the present.
(7/6/2000)
- IEEE Electronic Library, providing access to
full-text conference papers from IEEE conference proceedings
and articles from IEEE transactions, journals and magazines
covering applied physics, biomedical engineering, computer
science, electrical and electronics engineering, industrial
engineering, manufacturing, optics, remote sensing, robotics,
and telecommunications. (7/6/2000)
- The Economist Intelligence Unit, providing
full-text access to EIU publications including Country Reports,
regional newsletters, and an economic time series database for
115 countries. Information is presented as analysis, briefings,
commentary, or forecasts. (6/27/2000)
- Meteorological and Geoastrophysical
Abstracts, providing access to citations and abstracts for
world meteorological climatological and hydrological
literature. Over 600 literature sources are indexed and
abstracted, including journal articles, conference proceedings,
series and annuals covering atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric
physics, climatology, glaciology, hydrology, meteorology, and
physical oceanography. (5/26/2000)
- Polling the Nations, providing access to a
compilation of the full-text questions and responses from over
12,000 national, state, and local surveys conducted by 700
polling organizations in the U.S. and 70 other countries. This
resource covers over 4,000 subjects and included information
gathered by professional polling organizations, television
networks, universities, newspapers, businesses and
associations, including the Gallup Poll, the Roper Organization
Poll and others. (5/16/2000)
- Political Science Abstracts, providing access
to citations and abstracts for articles and books devoted to
North American and international politics, including
international law and politics, law, political economics,
political institutions, political science, political theory,
processes and behavior, public administration, and public
policy. (5/16/2000)
- International Bibliography of the Social
Sciences, providing access to citations for publications
related to the social sciences, including over 6,000 books and
over 2,600 journals in the social sciences. This resource
covers materials from over 100 countries in more than 90
languages. The focus is on the core disciplines of
anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, but
coverage includes such related subjects as archeology,
demography, foreign affairs, government, history, international
relations, law, psychology, public administration and social
issues. (5/16/2000)
- Ulrichsweb.com, providing access to
bibliographic and access information for over 240,000 serial
publications. Entries include pricing, subscription, and
distribution details as well as publisher and editor contacts.
Direct links to URLs and e-mail addresses are given when
available, along with nearly 8,000 reviews excerpted from
Magazines for Libraries and Library Journal. (5/15/2000)
- TRB Research In Progress Index, providing
descriptions of research projects funded by federal and state
departments of transportation in the U.S. and Canada. This
Transportation Research Board resource has citations and
abstracts for projects related to air transportation, airports,
environment, highways, land use, marine engineering, mass
transit, railroads, shipping, traffic engineering, traffic
safety, transport economics, transportation, urban planning.
(5/8/2000)
- Transport, providing access to a
comprehensive source of international air and surface (road,
rail, and marine) transportation information. This resource has
citations, mostly with abstracts, for research reports, books,
periodical articles, newsletters, theses, standards and
specifications, and conference proceedings covering air
transportation, airports, highways, land use, marine
engineering, mass transit, railroads, shipping, traffic
engineering, traffic safety, transport economics,
transportation, and urban planning. (5/5/2000)
- Mental Measurements Yearbook, providing
access to descriptive information about and critical reviews of
over 2,000 commercially-available, standardized,
English-language educational, personality, aptitude,
neuropsychological, achievement, and intelligence tests and
measures. (5/3/2000)
- Hand Press Book Database (HPB), providing
access to bibliographic information on items of European
printing of the hand-press period (ca. 1455-1830), held in
European libraries. This is a steadily growing collection of
catalog records from many libraries and collections belonging
to the Consortium of European Research Libraries, whose members
represent national and university libraries in 25 countries.
(5/2/2000)
- Essay and General Literature Index, providing
access to citations for essays published in collections with
particular emphasis on materials in the humanities and social
sciences. (5/1/2000)
- Women Writers Online, providing access to
full-text editions of more than 100 texts by English and
American women published between 1500 and 1830. It also
includes excellent introductory essays written by contemporary
scholars about Renaissance women writers, their texts, and
related topics. The site also includes links to other textual
databases, and a collection of syllabi. (4/27/2000)
- Philosopher's Index, providing access to
citations and abstracts of books and journal articles in
philosophy including aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic,
and metaphysics as well as the philosophy of history, law,
science, education and other related fields. (4/24/2000)
- Education Full Text, providing access to
citations, abstracts, and full text in approximately 500
English-language periodicals and yearbooks covering athletics,
classroom computers, comparative education, educational
technology, government funding, language and linguistics,
literacy, multicultural/ethnic education, physical education,
prayer in public schools, psychology, religious education,
science and mathematics, special education, teacher evaluation,
and vocational education. Full text and abstracts begin with
August 1994; citations begin with 1983. (4/19/2000)
- Columbia Earthscape: An Online Resource on the
Global Environment, providing access to curriculum-related
materials, conference proceedings, video clips, and other
resources related to astronomy, ecology, environment, geology,
meteorology, oceanography, and paleontology. Earthscape,
published by Columbia University Press, has 4 sections covering
Research (including datasets and databases), Education, Earth
Affairs Magazine, and Links & Resources. Earthscape also
includes a headline-banner service with the latest related
news, links to stories, and archival coverage.
(3/27/2000)
- American Film Institute Catalog, a
comprehensive project to document information on every feature
length film produced in America or financed by American
production companies from 1893 to 1970 (except 1951-1960). The
catalog provides information on over 45,000 films including
more than 17,500 made in the early years of film from 1893 to
1910. Also included are approximately one million personal name
entries for cast and production credits, plot summaries,
historical and source notes. (3/27/2000)
- March 22, 2000: The
Databases, Reference Works & Indexes page
now has a link to the
International Index to the Performing Arts, a
multidisciplinary index to the performing arts including
broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, dance,
drama/theater, film, magic and performance business, pantomime,
puppetry, stagecraft, and storytelling. Provides access to
citations from 1864 to the present (1864-1998 selectively)
including abstracts for 1998 and continuing.
- Internet Movie Database, a searchable online
movie database for films and TV shows made since 1892.
(3/22/2000)
- DataGate, the search interface for the local
holdings of Columbia University's Electronic Data Service
(EDS), and the entire catalog of Interuniversity Consortium for
Political and Social Research (ICPSR) holdings. DataGate allows
for online browsing of documentation and sample programs, where
available, and allows for online ordering of ICPSR data.
(3/22/2000)
- Wiley InterScience. This resource provides
full-text access to Wiley Interscience journals for which
Columbia has print subscriptions. Access includes tables of
contents and abstracts for all Wiley Interscience electronic
journals. Topics covered are business, chemistry, computer
science, earth science, education, engineering, finance, law,
life science, management, mathematics, medicine, physics,
psychology, and statistics. (3/22/2000)
- Military Education and Research Library Network
(MERLN). MERLN is a combined catalog for 14 U.S. military
libraries in the U.S. & Europe: Air University Library,
Armed Forces Staff College Library, Combined Arms Research
Library, Marine Corps University Library, Marshall Center,
Military History Institute, National Defense University
Library, Naval Postgraduate School Library, Naval War College
Library, U.S. Air Force Academy Library, U.S. Army War College
Library, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Library, U.S. Military
Academy, and U.S. Naval Academy Library. (3/10/2000)
- Dialog@Carl. This resource provides access to
citations, abstracts, bibliographic records, and full-text on
all subjects. It includes 300 multidisciplinary databases
covering journals, directories, current events and academic
sources. It also includes full-text for some 100 newspapers and
journals. Library catalog information drawn from the RLIN
Bibliographic Database is covered as well. (3/8/2000)
- Interactive Services is "Review
Checked-Out Items." Until recently, this "Has
List" service just allowed you to see a list of books
checked out to you in CLIO and find out when they're due.
We've added a new feature to this service: a separate table
(when relevant) to display material you have requested. The
four types of entries in this table are: hold requested, hold
available, recall requested, and recall available. Each of
these entries includes the same bibliographic and item
information that is displayed in the "Has List" and
includes the date a hold or recall was placed or became
available. (3/1/2000)
- Encyclopedia Americana Online &
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online:
Both resources provide full-text access to
encyclopedia articles on a wide range of topics including arts,
geography, history, language and literature, philosophy,
physical and life sciences, religion, society and social
sciences, sports and recreation, and technology. The Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia Online also contains fact boxes,
pictures, and maps. (2/29/2000)
- ARTbibliographies Modern. This resource
provides access to citations and abstracts for publications on
modern and contemporary art (20th-21st centuries), including
journals, exhibition catalogs, museum and gallery catalogs,
dissertations, and books. (2/24/2000)
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory &
Criticism, a full-text encyclopedia of literary theory and
criticism from Plato to modern times. This resource is
international in scope, with emphasis on Western critical
theory. It also examines developments in other disciplines
which have shaped literary theory and criticism.
(2/23/2000)
- Historical Newspapers Online, retrospective
indexes providing citations for articles in the London Times
and the New York Times. When complete, the indexes will offer
coverage as follows: Official Index to the Times (London)
1906-1980; Palmer's Index to the Times (London) 1790-1905;
Historical Index to the New York Times 1851-1923.
(2/7/2000)
- Koryosa, a full-text history of the Koryo
dynasty (918-1392) in Korean translation and in the classical
Chinese-language original. To use this service you need a
browser that can display Korean fonts. (2/2/2000)
- Iter, a bibliographic database of
interdisciplinary journals pertaining to the Middle Ages and
Renaissance, 400-1700. This resource provides access to
citations for articles in more than 400 scholarly journals
published since 1859. Types of works indexed include articles,
reviews, bibliographies, catalogues, editions, abstracts,
notes, and discographies. (1/31/2000)
- netLibrary, a collection of over 10,000
online books in full-text from university and commercial
publishers. The online books cover a wide range of subjects
including art, business, computers, education, government,
health, history, humanities, law, linguistics, literature,
music, reference, science, technology, and are displayed with
bibliographic data. (1/31/2000)
- Multex, full-text investment research reports
supplied by 600 leading investment banks, brokerage firms and
third party research providers. This resource is updated daily.
(2/28/2000)
- Springer LINK, full-text articles in over 440
electronic journals and electronic books/book series published
by the Springer publishing group. Topics covered are astronomy,
chemical sciences, computer science, economics, engineering,
environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences,
mathematics, medicine, and physics. (1/28/2000)
- Early English Books Online, a nearly
comprehensive collection of all extant books published in
English or in the British Isles in any language prior to 1700.
Titles can be retrieved using the cataloging data for those
titles from the English Short-Title Catalog database along with
information about the types of illustrations they contain. A
digitized version of the Early English Books microfilm
collection, this database contains full-text page images of
over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's
Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title
Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as
the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection. (2/28/2000)
- AMICO: Art Museum Image Consortium Library, a
collection of 40,000 high resolution JPEG format art images
including ceramics, drawings, paintings, photographs,
sculptures. The images have descriptive data and can be
searched by subject, creator, title, medium, and museum
holdings. (1/12/2000)
- Ethnic NewsWatch, comprehensive full-text
access to the ethnic, minority and native press in the United
States. This resource contains newspaper, magazine, and journal
articles from over 190 sources ranging from the American
Reporter and Asian Pages to El Diario/La Prensa to the
Washington Jewish Press and Yakima Nations Review.
(1/10/2000)
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