Fiction Connection - a Readers' Advisory Service

BooksInPrint.com now includes a reader’s advisory service called Fiction Connection. Readers can use Fiction Connection to find book suggestions based on books they have already read, authors they like, or topics of interest. Biographies and biographical novels are also included in Fiction Connection. Access to Fiction Connection is available through BooksInPrint.com.

Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series

The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series combines the Index Database, the Bibliography Database and the Names Database into the only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions.

Because it indexes each individual piece in a collection, it provides superior access for scholars, performers, teachers, and other researchers. Music for specific performing forces is easily retrievable, thus offering detailed repertory for performers, conductors, and directors of ensembles. Approximately 135,000 index entries are included. A three-year Mellon Foundation grant will support the indexing of the music listed in the bibliography, Collected editions, historical series & sets & monuments of music, by George R. Hill and Norris L. Stephens, and to add additional titles to the bibliography and complete their indexing.

Don't worry...use HaPI!

The Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database points users to information about tests and measurements in published journals.

HaPI includes information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

Note: If you click the link above you will see a list of datases, from which you need to select HaPI.

Washington Information Directory available

Now available online, the Washington Information Directory (WID) has been an essential source for U.S. government and non-governmental organizations for 30 years. WID offers capsule descriptions of these organizations and allows users to quickly and easily find contact people. The online version is updated continuously.

EOLSS trial

Compiled under the auspices of UNESCO, The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) is a multidisciplinary compendium of 16 encyclopedias available on a trial basis until the end of October 2006.

Included among the 16 are encyclopedias on Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Human Resources Policy and Management; Technology, Information, and Systems Management Resources; Social Sciences and Humanities; Chemical Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources. EOLSS has a thematic organization and presents a wide range of major core subjects from broad overview to great detail. [NOTE: After connecting to the link above, click on 'Access for Institutions' in the left panel.]

“EOLSS has the goal to provide a firm knowledge base for future activities to prolong the lifetime of the human race in a hospitable environment” - Richard R. Ernst, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. [See http://www.eolss.net/InformationBooklet.pdf for more details.]