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New E-Resources: 2007

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Encyclopedia of the Quran, combines alphabetically arranged articles about the contents of the Quran. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of Quranic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within Quranic studies. (2007-09-17)

SciELO, an electronic virtual library covering a selected collection of scientific journals. Provides access to abstracts and full text of articles through SciELO interface with title browse, author index, and subject index. (2007-09-17)

Cultural Revolution Database, contains historical materials related to the Revolution: Chinese Communist Party documents, speeches and writings by major party leaders and media commentaries. Comprises 10,000 documents in 35 million characters. Users can browse by subject categories and date. It is also searchable by author, keyword and organization (2007-09-17)

Europa World Plus, contains economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials, including 1,900 international organizations. Search or browse by country, region, organization, or people. (2007-09-17)

RSC eBook Collection, is a comprehensive overview of research and opinion in a multitude of areas of chemical science. Continually updated and expanded throughout the year the RSC eBook Collection provides access to new content as it is published and continuous access to the full RSC catalogue of books. The eBook Collection is fully searchable and indexed to chapter level, with all documents provided as pdfs. (2007-09-17)

The Historical New York Tribune, (1900-1910) offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. (2007-09-17)

Blackwell Reference Online, provides full-text access to reference works in the humanities, social sciences, and business and management. It supports browsing and full-text searching. (2007-09-17)

Scopus, provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in science, technology, and medicine. (2007-09-17)

Brill's New Pauly, is intended as an aid for the study of Greek and Roman culture and its multifaceted presence in all periods of European and, since the Early Modern period, world history. (2007-09-17)

AAPG Datapages, is the combined search-and-retrieval website for AAPG publications and related collections. Includes full-text and abstracts. (2007-09-17)

The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900, identifies the authors of articles within major Victorian periodicals, and provides a bibliography for each contributor. 45 important monthly and quarterly titles are included, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century. The exception to this is the Edinburgh Review, which is indexed from first issue, in 1802. (2007-09-17)

Fieser and Fieser's Reagents for Organic Synthesis, is the online version of the standard reference work describing reagents of use to organic chemists. (2007-09-17)

ProQuest Historical Annual Reports, offers corporate annual reports for U.S. companies from 1884 to the present. Key data (financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor, and related companies) are indexed in the citation and can be searched. Reports can be browsed by company name, industry or date. Cross-searchable to other historical periodical databases. (2007-09-17)

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text, covers journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. (2007-07-05)

Computing Reviews, aims to provide access to current research, theory and applications in all subdisciplines of computing via the review medium. CR compiles expert, unbiased critical reviews of current publications of note in computing. (2007-07-05)

China Development Brief, an independent publication established in 1996 to report on social development and civil society in China. (2007-07-05)

Adpsender, delivers advertising expenditure information on over 100, 000 brands and product categories, major industries, and companies across 18 media including cable and network TV, broadcast radio networks, major national newspapers and hundreds of business-to-business and consumer magazines. (2007-07-05)

CHEMLIBnetBASE, complements the databases of CHEMnetBASE with dozens of resources, references, and CRC handbooks. Chemistry topics covered include: analytical, industrial and applied, inorganic, materials, medicinal, organic, physical, polymer, and surface & colloid. Also covers electrochemistry, geochemistry, fuels and petrochemicals, photochemistry, separation science/chromatography, and spectroscopy. (2007-07-05)

Classical Scores Library, a collection of important classical music scores, manuscripts, and unpublished material. Provides for textual searching by various criteria. (2007-07-05)

Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945, selected from the PRO Class FO 371 files in the National Archives, London, Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 features full-text documents received in the British Foreign Office from all European states under Nazi occupation during World War II. This unique collection includes a range of primary sources related to wartime conditions in France, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Vatican, in addition to those from Spain and Germany itself. Subjects covered include: the German attempt to win over important groups within the territories; the psychological warfare of rival propaganda campaigns; resistance units; and the repercussions of such events as Germany's invasion of Russia. (2007-07-05)

Latin American Women Writers, is an extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. (2007-07-05)

Mass Observation Online, includes essays on British social history collected between 1937 and 1972 during a project called the Mass Observation. The archives also include photographs, file reports, diaries, day surveys and links to other sites (2007-07-05)

Global Market Information Database, contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. (2007-07-05)

Twentieth Century North American Drama, contains 2,000 plays from the United States and Canada. In addition to providing a comprehensive full-text resource for students in the performing arts, the collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries. Scholars and students who use the database will have a new way to study the signal events of the twentieth century, including the Depression, the role of women, the Cold War, and more, through the plays and performances of writers who lived through these decades. (2007-07-05)

African American Music Reference, brings together text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. (2007-07-05)

Exeucomp Database, provides annual data on executive compensation. With ExecuComp, you can readily identify trends within a company or among peers within an industry. The database includes over 80 different compensation, executive, director, and company related items; coverage of each company's top five executive officers; over 35 measures of company financial performance taken from the COMPUSTAT database; and more. (2007-07-05)

Atlas of North American English , provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. (2007-05-21)

Religious and Theological Abstracts , provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. Database lists a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions, and provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. Indexes and abstracts articles in the fields of sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies. Coverage also includes policy issues in areas such as aging, violence, abuse and neglect, crisis intervention, urban development, and development policy. (2007-05-21)

The Religion Resource , contains the full text of over 27 Religion reference works. Topics covered include early Christianity, religious ethics, eastern religious philosophies, Judaism, Old and New Testament, and more. (2007-05-21)

Digital Karl Barth Library, the database features the entire corpus of Barth's Gesamtausgabe. Published under the TVZ imprint, this definitive edition of Barth's works in German currently comprises 42 volumes of theological writings, letters, sermons, academic writings, and more. As additional print volumes of the Gesamtausgabe become available, they will be added to Alexander Street's The Digital Karl Barth Library. Also included is Barth's magnum opus, the 14-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik. (2007-05-18)

Standard and Poor’s Net Advantage, includes Company information, including market snapshot, company quote, equity indexes page, the Outlook's market insight, S & P stock stock report, economic calendar, economic insight, industry in focus, and Stovall's sector watch. Also includes mutual funds, S&P industry surveys for the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America (2007-05-18)

LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, is the official record of committee hearings proceedings. Hearings, which are usually open to the public, are held to enable committees to gather opinions and information to help Members make decisions regarding proposed legislation or to help them fulfill their oversight and investigation responsibilities. Most hearings are published from six months to a year after the hearing is held, but some hearings are published following a gap of two or more years. The timing of the publication depends solely on the schedule of the individual committee. Official hearings publications, which are printed by the Government Printing Office (GPO), usually include: Written and oral statements of witnesses, transcripts of the verbal question-and-answer session between the committee and witnesses, reports, exhibits, and other materials submitted for the record by witnesses, and correspondence and other materials submitted by interested parties. (2007-05-18)

Encyclopaedia Judaica, providing an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures. Encyclopaedia Judaica is important to scholars, general readers and students. (2007-05-18)

Business Plans Handbook, a collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. (2007-04-04)

Forrester Research, includes market research on technology areas such as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications and the Internet, and project how technology trends will affect businesses, consumers, and society. Forrester reports include up-to-date industry statistics, as well as illustrative graphs and charts. Registration is required. (2007-04-04)

Lugt's Répertoire online, provides access to two different databases: the Répertoire online database and the Libraries database. The Répertoire online is the online edition of the Répetoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, by Frits Lugt. Recently discovered catalogues have been added, and corrections to the original work have been made. The database can be consulted both in French and in English. Corrections and additions to the database will be constantly added. The Libraries database provides the opportunity to search through libraries with holdings of art sales catalogues. (2007-04-04)

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index , is the premier resource for access to articles about plants and gardens. Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design and history. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English (2007-04-04)

BuildingGreen.com, a database to help building-industry professionals design and build construction projects that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes economic performance. Includes access to Environmental building news articles, lists for GreenSpec products and specification guidelines, and detailed project case studies of high-performance buildings. (2007-03-29)

Mideastwire.com, offers a daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing via the print, radio and television media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. (2007-03-29)

PEP Web, provides access to the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Web archive, which contains both books and journal articles. The book archive includes the full text of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Freud's letters to his major collaborators and the full text of the major works by Wilfred Bion, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott along with other major psychoanalytic authors. The journals in the archive presently include the full text many premier English-language journals in psychoanalysis. (2007-03-15)

Digital Scriptorium, an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. (2007-03-15)

Wanfang data : Wan fang shu ju, a group of electronic resources. China online journals (COJ) is a database featuring core journals in business, economics, arts, humanities, law, politics and the social sciences, as well as a unique broad collection of Chinese university journals, which are a main research source in the humanities and social sciences in China. COJ provides full-text online browsing, allowing readers to browse each journal in the same manner as for print copies. Chinese patents is a database containing full text of all Chinese patents approved after 1985. It covers patents of invention, utility, and design. (2007-02-09)

TBRC Tibetan digital library. Core text collections , contains multiple works on Tibetan literature which have been assembled specifically to be incorporated into institutional libraries. Each collection comprises roughly 1000 volumes from the TBRC holdings selected by E. Gene Smith, Executive Director of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Within each Core Text Collection, each work is provided in both Adobe Acrobat PDF and TIFF formats. (2007-02-05)

NACLA Digital Archive , provides access to back issues of the NACLA Report on the Americas. The archive contains searchable full text in PDF format from 1967 to present. (2007-02-01)

British Periodicals I, provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On completion the archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages. Different types of periodical are represented, from scholarly and professional journals to coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines. Consists of two separate collections. Collection I will consist of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. Collection II will consist of more than 300 journals from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts together with additional titles. Topics covered will include literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. (2007-02-01)

GLBT Life, contains indexing and abstracts for GLBT-specific core periodicals and GLBT-specific core books and reference works. Indexes important historical GLBT publications, including ONE, The Ladder, Mattachine Review, The Advocate, Christopher Street, Body Politic, The New York Native, and much more. Includes some monographs and reference books, as well as grey literature, including newsletters, case studies, and speeches. (2007-01-24)

Oxford African American Studies Center, a comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with precise search and browse capabilities. Features over 7,500 articles from Oxford's reference works, approximately 100 primary sources with specially written commentaries, over 1,000 images, over 100 maps, over 200 charts and tables, timelines to guide researchers through the history of African Americans and over 6,000 biographies. (2007-01-22)


 
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