ACLS History E-Books http://historyebook.org/

The American Council of Learned Societies History E-Books Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, sixty contributing publishers and the librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. There are 1,100 full text titles in the project which can be accessed either through the database or through the Voyager online catalog. The books are fully searchable and of high quality. The project covers several fields in historical studies. The project is available 24/7 on and off campus.

Literature Resource Center from Gale – coming in December

Gale’s Literature Resource Center is the premier collection of literary and critical resources available online. The Gale Literature Resource Center includes traditional literary reference works, critical information on authors and their works, current journal articles and additional resources. Despite the name, this resource is not limited to literary figures and works. Researchers will find a broad range of biographical and critical information at their fingertips. LRC includes the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, several of the literary criticism sets and over 200 full text journals.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

The following reference titles are being converted to online editions which will be available both on campus and via remote access. These resources will be available via the database table and through the Voyager Online Catalog and are fully searchable.

Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary, 34th ed., 4v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
Encyclopedia of Homelessness, 2v, 2004
Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., 15v, 2005
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, 2nd ed., 6v, 2000
Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 17v, 2004
West’s Encyclopedia of American Law, 2 ed., 13v, 2005

Two more titles will be added at the beginning of 2006:
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History
Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Birds of North America (BNA) has arrived just in time for the Christmas Bird Count. The Birds of North America is produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the American Ornithologists’ Union. BNA is a comprehensive reference covering the life histories of 716 species of North American birds. The online project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a living resource. The database will be updated frequently, with online-coordinated contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. In addition, BNA Online will build image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. And each online species account will contain recordings of that bird’s songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell’s Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.

Birds of North America is available on the database table of the GVSU Libraries (www.gvsu.edu/library) and by remote access using your GVSU login and password.

The University Libraries is pleased to announce that Nature Online is now available for use by faculty, staff and students. Nature Online contains full text issues back to 1997. Availability of this title online is a direct response to faculty requests and needs.

The easiest way to access the online version of Nature is to select ejournals from the Library homepage (www.gvsu.edu/library) and select N or do a title search for Nature. The journal can also be accessed through the Voyager catalog. Nature is available on campus and through remote access using your GVSU login and password.

Nature Online will be available through the end of 2006. We will also continue to receive the print version. The Libraries will assess use and decide which version to continue in 2007 during the late summer of 2006.

Please send any comments or concerns to Millie Jackson, Collection Development Librarian, 331-2901 or jacksomi@gvsu.edu