Friday, April 27, 2007

New Online Reference Titles

250 reference titles are now available online via the Gale Virtual Reference Collection.

The entire collection can be searched as a whole or titles within a subject area or even single titles. The complete texts of these titles are searchable. Catalog entries for all the titles are included in the STARS online catalog.

The following list is just a sample of the titles available in this online reference collection:

Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary, 37th ed.

African American Almanac, 9th ed.

American Men and Women of Science, 22nd ed.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990

Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America

Business Plans Handbook, Volume 12

Chemistry: Foundations and Applications

College Blue Book, 34th ed.

Company Profiles for Students

Contemporary Hispanic Biography

Contemporary Novelists

Contemporary Poets

Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources

Dictionary of American History

Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Encyclopedia of Judaica

Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 20,000 Women Through the Ages

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed.

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World

Encyclopedia of India

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed.

Encyclopedia of Religion

Encyclopedia of Small Business, 2nd ed.

Encyclopedia of Sociology

Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Encyclopedia of World Biography

Environmental Encyclopedia

Europe, 1450 to 1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World

Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion

Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 2nd ed

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 2nd ed.

Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia

Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

History of the American Cinema

Manufacturing and Distribution USA, 4th ed.

New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed.

Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature

Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans, 23rd ed.

Social Trends and Indicators USA

VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2007

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2nd ed.

World Education Encyclopedia

Writers Directory 2007

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

News from ARTstor

Paintings and Tapestries from the Getty

ARTstor is pleased to announce two new collections from the Getty.

The first, J. Paul Getty Museum Collection, contains nearly 400 paintings from the 14th century through the early 20th century.

The second collection, Study Photographs of Tapestries in the Getty Research Library, contains over 4,000 images from the Tapestries Collection. more>>

Greek, Hellenistic and Roman sculptures from the Berlin State Museums

ARTstor has just added 301 images of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman sculptures from the Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Berlin State Museums. more>>

Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture

ARTstor has released over 300 images of historic art and architecture illustrations to the Digital Library. This collection, created by Allan Kohl, contains illustrations originally published during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. more>>

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Xrefer Reference E-Books Trial thru April 30.

Melville Library currently subscribes to sets of multidisciplinary reference books in electronic format via the Gale Virtual Reference Library and Oxford Reference Online.

Through April 30th we have trial access to XreferPlus - a competing set of online reference ebooks - in order to compare Xrefer's product with Gale's and Oxford's. Access to the XreferPlus product is available from on-campus connections only.

After you have explored any or all of these online electronic reference resources, please feel free to leave a comment here on Screenings...