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NEW DATABASES
Latest databases acquired by the McKillop Library
from May, 2007 to present.
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This ia a digital library of nearly 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities and social sciences; the resources include a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. ARTstor's image collections are assembled across many time periods and cultures. The digital library serves users both within the arts, and in disciplines outside of the arts as diverse as American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classical studies, literary studies, medieval studies, music, religious studies, and Renaissance studies.
- 04/01/08
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
(Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era. Delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists.
- 04/01/08
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Access to electronic reference titles subscribed to by the McKillop Library. Subjects covered include religion, history, the arts and social sciences.
- 04/01/08
GreenFILE
(EBSCOhost)
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. It is a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles which includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
- 04/01/08
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film
(Gale CENGAGE Learning)
This reference provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history.
- 02/01/08
Accounting Research Manager
(Commerce Clearing House)
Accounting Research Manager (ARM) is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and objective online database of financial reporting literature. It includes all authoritative and proposed accounting, auditing, government and SEC literature, plus independent, expert-written interpretive guidance. It provides links to new FASB, AICPA, SEC, EITF, IASB, PCAOB, GASB, GAO, and OMB authoritative and proposal-stage literature, plus insightful guidance from financial reporting experts. Plus, the ARM database offers the Miller accounting and auditing libraries.
- 02/01/08
ARTstor
(ARTstor)
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.
- 02/01/08
Book Review Digest Plus
(Wilson Web)
Coverage: 1983-present. Drawing from thousands of periodicals, Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of both fiction and non-fiction, and provides many full-text reviews and substantial review excerpts. Retrieve book summaries, bibliographic data, full-text reviews, review excerpts, or basic citations. Entries currently encompass some 1,300,000 reviews covering over 660,000 books and growing with daily updates. More than 115,000 full text reviews. Descriptive annotations of more than 150,000 books.
- 02/01/08
Book Review Digest Retrospective
(Wilson Web)
Coverage: 1905-1982. This database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Covers 300,000 books. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words), most have at least two, and many books have several review excerpts for a complete picture of how the book was received at the time it was published. Cites over 1.5 million book reviews. Accurate, detailed indexing of over 500 key English-language popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.
- 02/01/08
CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork
(Commerce Clearing House)
CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork answers most of the tax practitioner's researching needs. The Federal tab links to such CCH materials as the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Federal Estate/Gift Tax Reporter, U.S. Master Tax Guide, most federal primary tax sources, and archived federal tax material back to 1978. OmniTax's State tab links to CCH state tax resources for 48 states, ranging from income to sales and use, to excise taxes.
- 02/01/08
Project MUSE Basic Research Collection
(John Hopkins University)
The Basic Research Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of scholarly peer-reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the humanities and social sciences. Titles in this collection are chosen based on a number of criteria, including the journal's presence in appropriate high quality indexes, inclusion in archival collections, and current usage in MUSE. The collection consists of just under 200 journals including The Catholic Historical Review, ELH, The Hemingway Review, The Henry James Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and World Politics.
- 01/01/08
Nursing Full Text PLUS
(OVID)
A collection of 46 full-text online nursing journals hosted by Ovid. A variety of the top nursing journals available today with 100% searchable full text. Included in the collection is the Journal of Nursing Administration, the American Journal of Nursing, and Nursing Research.
- 12/01/07
Encyclopedia Judaica
(Gale CENGAGE Learning)
Provides 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, 2nd edition is important to scholars, general readers and students.
- 12/01/07
New Catholic Encyclopedia
(Gale CENGAGE Learning)
NCE is the single most comprehensive reference resource on Catholicism. Over 12,000 individual articles, arranged alphabetically, the entries offer up-to-date commentary on the multifaceted religious body of one billion adherents, from its foundations in Judaism to the papacy of John Paul II. Readers will find both statistical and cultural information about the Catholic Church in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Zimbabwe, as well as an entry for almost every Catholic diocese and religious organization in the United States. Exhaustive treatment is given to biblical studies, Christology, liturgical practice, and Byzantine Christianity, and ethical and moral issues of euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality, and the human genome.
- 09/15/07
Plunkett Research Online with Archives
(Plunkett Research, Ltd.)
Offers detailed industry and business analysis including market research and trends, company profiles, and statistics for over 30 industry categories. Subjects covered include competitive intelligence, account plan or sales guide data, market research, vertical industry marketing data, product strategy data, trends analysis, statistics, job search data, company profiles and executive lists.
- 09/01/07
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876
(Newsbank)
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brighams History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 and other authoritative bibliographies. Includes coverage of the Newport Mercury from 1758 to 1842 as well as newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.
- 09/01/07
BioOne.1 and BioOne.2
BioOne provides integrated access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biology, ecological and environmental sciences. BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOnes titles are published by small societies and other not-for-profit organizational publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.
- 09/01/07
CINAHL with Fulltext
(EBSCOhost)
The worlds most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. Includes coverage of over 1200 professional journals in nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, and health sciences librarianship, with coverage as far back as 1982. In addition, CINAHL offers access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software in nursing, audiovisuals, and book chapters. CINAHL with Headings contains CINAHL-specific headings.
- 09/01/07
Credo Reference (Formally Xreferplus)
Offering access to over 1 million individual entries, xreferplus contains all types of reference books : dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.
- 09/01/07
Europa World Plus and Regional Surveys of the World
(Taylor & Francis)
Provides up-to-date economic, political and geographic information and the latest available political, economic and geographic statistics on over 250 countries. Includes thousands of directory contact details with links and a comprehensive listing of some 1,700 international organizations. A Recent Events section offers daily reviews of key national and international political developments. The Regional Surveys of the World section provides in-depth, expert analysis at the regional, sub-regional and country level.
- 09/01/07
Film and Television Literature Index
(EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more.
- 09/01/07
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center
(EBSCOhost)
Offers information on all aspects of security and counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. Combines background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, as well as timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.
- 09/01/07
ReferenceUniverse
(Paratext)
Contains links to over 1,700 electronic reference works--and over 10,000 works totalincluding hundreds of specialized, subject encyclopedias, handbooks and compendia. Reference Universe provides searchable access to back-of-the-book indexes, electronic article titles, reviews and links to subject encyclopedias and reference works online and in print, allowing users to quickly locate relevant reference information across a wide range of reference sources.
- 09/01/07
Sage Journals Online
(Sage Publishing)
SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. Full text of journal articles is from 1999 Present for most journals.
- 09/01/07
Social Works Abstracts
(EBSCOhost)
Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1977. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Researchers seeking scholarly and professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, economics and more will find Social Work Abstracts to be an indispensable resource. Links provided to full-texr owned by Salve.
- 09/01/07
Theatre in Video with BBC Shakespeare
(Alexander Street Press)
Contains more than 250 of the worlds most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, all online in streaming video. From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video offers more than 500 hours of online streaming video, and covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Users can bookmark specific scenes and then include those online links in their papers or course reserves.
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