May 03, 2008

New e-Resources
We are pleased to announce that the library has acquired the following new electronic resources:

• Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature
  (1920 to present) Indexes journal articles, essays, and books, book reviews, and critical editions of literary works; covers all literatures in English as well as the English language, bibliography, textual studies, and the history of publishing.
• Nature
  (1987 to present) Now online! Articles are available in pdf format.
• Reference Universe
  Want to know which reference works contain information on your topic? Search Reference Universe, an index to the indexes in many of our reference books and e-books.
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
  (c. 1935 to present) A collection of U.S. public opinion data. Includes:
  • iPOLL
    A database of 500,000 questions and answers from surveys conducted by over 150 commercial and media survey organizations, including the Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and more.
  • RoperExpress
    A collection of data sets for bivariate and multivariate analyses.

Expanded Coverage and Content
The library has purchased additional content for the following databases:

• Biography Reference Bank
  Added content: Biography Index Retrospective (1946-1983)
  Indexes biographies of over 500,000 people from all time periods and countries; over 175,000 of the biographies are full text. Also includes the full text of biographies from major reference works.
• Business Periodicals
  Added content: Business Periodicals Retrospective (1913-1982)
  This database now covers the period 1913 to present. It indexes over 2,000 business, industry, applied science, and technology periodicals, including scholarly journals, trade journals, popular magazines, and selected newspapers. It also contains the Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
• Digital National Security Archive
  A collection of over 63,000 declassified U.S. government foreign policy documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and drawn from the collections of the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
  The library has acquired the following new collections:
  • CIA Family Jewels Indexed
    Contains CIA directives, memoranda, program summaries, police reports, and many other documents related to actions conducted by the CIA at the height of the Cold War, through 1973. Includes the monitoring of U.S. political activities, surveillance of journalists, investigations into other federal agencies, and more. This collection was the subject of the longest-running FOIA request by the National Security Archive of the CIA.
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
    Contains 1, 463 documents from the U.S., the Soviet Union, Cuba and other countries, such as Great Britain, Canada, and Brazil, related to events that led up to and resulted in the 1962 missile crisis.
  • U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
    Contains over 600 documents, including sources that Jeffrey Richelson used for his book Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea (Norton, 2006) as well as documents gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies on various nuclear, biological, chemical, ballistic missile, and military space programs from World War II to the present.
• Education Abstracts
  Added content: Education Index Retrospective (1929-1983)
  This database now covers the period 1929 to present. It indexes over 800 English-language education periodicals, books, and yearbooks and covers the fields of athletics, educational technology, elementary education, higher education, library science, literacy standards, multicultural education, religious education, school administration, special education, teacher education, and student counseling, among others. It also includes the full text of some articles from 1996 to present.

Posted By: Susanna Boylston