LexisNexis Scheduled Service Outage on October 31

The LexisNexis Academic, Congressional, and Statistical databases will be unavailable beginning Saturday, October 31st, at 9:00pm until Sunday, November 1st, 5:00am.

Electronic Journal Downtime -- Time Changed

Due to a required system upgrade, access to electronic journals, Galaxy databases, and full text linking will be unavailable for a 4-hour period beginning Saturday, October 24th at 2:00 am.

Open Access to American History in Video

American History in Video is freely available (no username or password required) through November 15, 2009. According to the publisher, Alexander Street Press, it includes "more than 1,500 titles and 500 hours. It will continue to grow to include more than 5,000 complete titles and 2,000 hours of rare newsreels and important documentaries from leading producers such as PBS, The History Channel®, Bullfrog Films, and California Newsreel."

Electronic Books from Springer Publishing on Trial

This trial covers all Springer eBook Collections for copyright years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 including nearly 10,000 eBooks and eReference Works, and is available until the end of October. The titles included cover a wide range of subject areas, with emphasis on science, technology, and medicine. Titles we can access are identified by green squares.

Latino Writing Collections

Trial access is available until October 15th to three collections of Latino Writing. The collections include poetry, short stories, folk tales, novels, memoirs, non-fiction, and plays in both Spanish and English from Latino writers around the world. They are made available in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month by Alexander Street Press. The collections are Latino Literature, Caribbean Literature, and Latin American Women Writers

Username: eviews
Password: hispanicheritage

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

GREENR focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Both interactive and current, GREENR allows users to navigate issue, organization and country portals. This resource provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in the categories of energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, and economic development. Through an arrangement made by SUNYConnect, the database is on trial until the end of 2009.

GSS 1972-2008 Cumulative Data File now Available

The 1972-2008 GSS cumulative data file for the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Surveys (GSS) is now available from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research via RoperExpress immediate download.

The newly released data file contains individual response coding for 53,043 respondents and 5,364 variables. The questionnaire contains a standard core of demographic and attitudinal variables, plus certain topics of special interest selected for rotation (called "topical modules"). Items that appeared on national surveys between 1973 and 1975 are replicated. The exact wording of these questions is retained to facilitate time trend studies as well as replications of earlier findings.