Reference USA - TRIAL until 11 Dec 2006

ReferenceUSA is directory resource available to us as a TRIAL until
11 Dec 2006.

The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, detailed
information on more than 13 million U.S. businesses; 120 million
U.S. households; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian
businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents. Information is
compiled from the following public sources: more than 5,600 Yellow
Page and Business White Page telephone directories; annual reports,
10-Ks and other SEC information; Continuing Medical Education (CME)
directories; federal, state, provincial and municipal government data;
Chamber of Commerce information; leading business magazines, trade
publications, newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty
directories; and postal service information, including both U.S. and
Canadian National Change of Address updates.   250 employees make
telephone calls to verify the information on each business and health
care provider in the database. 17 million phone calls are made each year,
and businesses with 100 or more employees are phone-verified at least
twice a year.  


For more information, or to send comments/suggestions/feedback, please contact
Susan Lieberthal, Business Librarian, or Aimee deChambeau, Journalism Librarian. 

Play Index now online

Play Index on WilsonWeb is the electronic version of Play Index - the print version is in Main Library Reference, Call# PN1655.P55.

In the Play Index you can search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present in the convenient electronic form that many of you prefer.

An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match your production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more. Play Index provides the full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations.

For plays published separately, the publisher, date, pagination, ISBN, and LC number are given. Plays in collections link to full bibliographic information. Teachers, students, drama coaches, theater groups, directors, performers, and researchers will heavily use this outstanding resource. Its broad scope- from puppet plays to classical drama- and detailed cast analysis make Play Index suitable to a variety of uses. Play Index includes plays published as single volumes and also plays in anthologies and collections. All Play master records contain a link to the results of an Internet metasearch of specially selected Web sites to link to full text, criticism, and other useful information.

Historical Statistics of the US - TRIAL thru Dec 15th

A trial of the online version of the 4^th edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online (HSUS) is now available until December 15^th. HSUS contains quantitative indicators of American history.

According to the product notes for this new edition: Most series from the previous edition were extended by roughly thirty years, and the coverage of most topics was enhanced. More than a dozen new topics were added: American Indians, slavery, outlying areas, poverty, nonprofit organizations, and the Confederate States of America, to list a few examples. Finally, the chapters in the new edition are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, provide a guide to the sources, and offer expert advice on the reliability of the data and the limits that might be placed on their interpretation.

You may want to take the site tour before playing with the trial version of HSUS: https://hsus.cambridge.org/HSUSHelp/SiteTour/Site_tour.htm

Note that the trial version of this database only permits downloading, emailing, and pdf viewing from Part A, although you can search and view html files in all parts.

Feedback, comments, and questions about HSUS are encouraged and should be directed to Elaine Hoffman, Government Documents Librarian: Elaine.Hoffman@stonybrook.edu or 631.632.1151

RSC scheduled downtime 12/2/06

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) website (http://www.rsc.org) will be unavailable on Saturday 2 December 2006 from 09.00 to 17.00 GMT for essential maintenance.

The RSC apologises for any inconvenience that this downtime may cause.

ARTstor Update

ARTstor regularly makes important collection additions and feature enhancements. The best way to learn about these updates is to join the ARTstor Announce electronic mailing list. Just send a blank email to: join-artstor-announce@lists.artstor.org and you will receive an email confirmation when you have been added to the list.

Some of the announcements made over the past few months have highlighted new collections and features such as:
• Contemporary art works by artists managed by the American and French artists’ rights societies (ARS and ADAGP)
• High quality images of key works of art and architecture from Art Resource, Scala and the Eric Lessing archives.
• Islamic art and architecture images from the personal archives of the distinguished Islamicists Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom and Walter Denny
• JSTOR/ARTstor search prototype that provides a single search interface to ARTstor and JSTOR content.