More New Resources!
October 9, 2009
The following databases have been added to the library web site:
• Bio Med (Central) provides access to 199 peer-reviewed open access journals in all aspects of biomedical research
• Book Review Index Plus was formerly a print resource and is now available online. It provides access to reviews of books in over 600 journals. Coverage goes back to 1965.
• Columbia International Affairs Online is, according to their online description, “the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.”
• Early Republic database contains the seventeen volumes of primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members that were collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Essay & General Literature Index was formerly a print resource and is now available online. It provides access to essays contained in nearly 7000 anthologies and collections. Coverage goes back to 1985.
• Literature Online Index provides access to more than 350,000 English and American literary works in full-text (and to Anglo-Saxon and Middle English texts as well). It also provides literary criticism, in both journals and complete reference books, on authors and works contained in the database.
• RILM Abstract of Music Literature is an online index of scholarship on music from all over the world. Short descriptions of journal articles are available.
• Short Story Index was also formerly a print resource which is now available online. It gives the publication information (names and dates of books, journals and magazines) for short stories back to 1994. 4000 short stories are available in full-text.
We now have ten concurrent users for the Mergent database.
New ebooks include Classical & Medieval Literary Criticism and Literary Criticism 1400-1800. These resources are part of the Gale literary criticism series in our reference collection. We have volumes 1-111 and 1-164 respectively in print. The current and subsequent volumes will be available online. Ebooks available soon are the New Catholic Encyclopedia and Children’s Literature Review.
Another new resource is going to make the life of every single member of the UST community so much easier! It’s RefWorks, and it practically performs miracles. At its most basic, RefWorks helps you to cite the information you use in your papers. No more struggling with trying to comprehend the MLA or APA citation handbooks (although we will still keep copies in the library). You input the citation information, and RefWorks creates lists of works cited and footnotes. But RefWorks is so much more than that. It helps you organize your research by keeping it all in one place – accessible at any computer for RefWorks is web-based. You can even share this information with others and collaborate on group projects using it. You are able to create numerous accounts on RefWorks, so if you want to share some information sources but keep others private, you can. RefWorks is also available on the Doherty Library list of databases under “Reference.”
Doherty Library will be offering workshops on using RefWorks in the fall semester.
Exciting New Resource at Doherty!
July 13, 2009
Doherty Library has acquired a new exciting resource beginning July 1, 2009 and available for the second summer session. This resource is Credo Reference.
Credo Reference is the dream of those who want to break the Wikipedia habit. Credo has all that Wikipedia has and more. It’s quick, it’s easy and it’s available 24/7 at any computer. Unlike Wikipedia, however, Credo Reference is made up of 401 different resources and all of them are authoritative. When you type a term into Credo, the database searches all 401 resources, so you find a variety of points of view on the same subject. These points of view are all by respected scholars in their fields. Moreover, Credo reference contains specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, and quotation books. Many of these specialized resources can be cited as reliable information in your papers. Credo also has cool features like a measurement converter and a crossword puzzle solver. Credo can be found on the library website under Databases by Title and Databases by Subject. You can also click here and give it a try.
Bibliography of the History of Art
August 13, 2007
Bibliography of the History of Art
The library recently replaced its primary art history indexing source with the Bibliography of the History of Art. The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) provides indexing and abstracting to 4,300 periodicals related to the history of art, an increase of over twenty-fold from our previous Arts database. In addition to articles, BHA also provides subject access to art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, art exhibition catalogs and dealer’s catalogs. The coverage focuses on European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Indexing encompasses the traditional fine arts – painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, etc. – and architecture, as well as the decorative and applied arts – crafts, graphic arts, folk art, etc. It is produced by the Getty Research Institute and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST). The BHA includes and greatly extends the coverage of two art indexing and abstracting services. Its predecessor databases are the RAA (Repertoire d’Art et d’Archéologie) and the RILA (International Repertory of the literature of Art). Those resources, combined with current indexing & abstracting makes BHA one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of scholarly writing about the history of Western art available.
Rachel
