Relax with magazines from the Steelcase Library’s new leisure reading magazine collection. We now are, or soon will be, receiving the following:
You’ll find these on top of the book shelves just inside the reading room.
Be sure to check out the new books section, too. They’re in the display case right across from the entrance doors.
The University Libraries are happy to announce the addition of a new reference database.
“The American Indian Experience offers access to an online library, featuring more than 150 volumes of scholarship and reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images. From Pre-contact to the present day, from the Inuit of the north to the Seminoles of Florida, AIE is meant for anyone wishing to learn more about America’s Native Peoples.”
The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project, a partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University, has added a growing collection of audio interviews to the Digital Collections database.
This summer the University Libraries have been hard at work adding or expanding twenty-five resources. Below you will find a list of the new and expanded resources with content descriptions.
If you would like more information on new or existing resources in your subject area, please feel free to contact your subject librarian. For a complete listing of all the library’s databases, please see our database listing or a specific subject resource page.
African American Experience: “The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. The two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 450 titles, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.”
America’s Historic Newspapers Series VI and VII: “Early American Newspapers, Series 6 & 7 include more than 320 significant 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century newspapers, including titles of unique historical significance, regional weeklies and big-city dailies. Drawing from the acclaimed newspaper collections of the American Antiquarian Society, Kansas Historical Society, the Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and other institutions, Series 6 & 7 further supplements the preceding series, resulting in enhanced research opportunities and more complete coverage of American history, culture and daily life.
Significant newspapers in these series include Courier de la Louisiane, a bilingual Creole title; Frederick Douglass’ Paper; the California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, a pioneer of early natural history writing; the Charleston Mercury, a strong supporter of slavery; the Savannah Republican, one of the few Southern newspapers that published throughout the Civil War; the popular and entertaining Southern Illustrated News; the Detroit Plaindealer, Detroit’s first successful black newspaper; The Colored American, which provided detailed coverage of the Amistad revolt; Argus of Western America, an early Kentucky paper and a strong supporter of Andrew Jackson; and the Arkansas Gazette, one of the first papers west of the Mississippi. Other significant titles include the Kalamazoo Gazette, Kansas City Times, Northern Standard, Oregon State Journal and many more.”
Black Studies Center: “Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable databases”: the International Index for Black Periodicals, the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience and the Black Literature Index. Also included in Black Studies Center is the Chicago Defender, which provides complete full text coverage of this leading African American newspaper from 1905-1975.
Brill’s New Jacoby: “Brill’s New Jacoby will completely supersede the traditional 18-volume set known to classical scholars. It will contain many updated Greek texts, English translations of all of the Greek testimonia and fragments, a new critical commentary on the texts (and for the first time commentary on those texts that Jacoby did not complete before his death), as well as the inclusion of new authors and fragments not in FGrHist.”
Cambridge Histories Online: “Cambridge Histories Online includes the contents of over 250 Cambridge history volumes published since 1960, making this unrivaled scholarship available in one convenient database.”
Classical Music Library: “Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings… from major labels with performances by Maria Callas, Sir Simon Rattle, Herbert von Karajan, Andre Previn, Itzhak Perlman, Placido Domingo, Martha Argerich, Arthur Rubinstein, Jacqueline du Pré, Riccardo Muti, among many other major figures. Independent European and North American record labels including Sanctuary Classics, Hyperion, CBC, and others feature additional renowned artists such as Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, Felicity Lott, Glenn Gould, Angela Hewitt, Trevor Pinnock, The Sixteen, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.”
Daily Life through History Premium: Starting with a base of the landmark Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life and Greenwood’s Daily Life through History, Cultures and Customs and History of Modern Nations book series, Daily Life through History includes more than 180 reference works, hundreds of primary sources and thousands of images covering the social history and daily life of people from ancient times through today.
Discovery Education Streaming Plus: Formally known as United Streaming, Discovery Education Streaming Plus provides access to more than 7000 online videos, including PBS programs like Frontline and the American Experience, as well as documentaries from filmmakers like Ken Burns.
Gale Directory Library: The Gale Directory Library provides online access to a number of standard reference sources, including the Encyclopedia of Associations: International, Market Share Reporter, National Faculty Directory, Research Centers Directory and Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies.
ICPSR (Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research): The ICPSR provides access to hundreds of thousands of data files from more than 6,800 studies in a wide variety fields, including anthropology, criminal justice, economics, education, foreign policy, gerontology, health and medical policy, law, political science, psychology, public policy and sociology.
Intelex Past Masters: Intelex Past Masters provides electronic access to a number of key works, including G.W.F. Hegel: The Oxford University Press Translations, Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels and the Oxford Classical Dictionary. All these titles can be found via the Library’s online catalog.
Index Islamicus: Index Islamicus is an international bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. It covers their history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures. It includes material published by Western Orientalists, social scientists and Muslims writing in European languages.
International Index to Music Periodicals: The International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 430 international music periodicals from over 20 countries. IIMP includes a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Indexed articles cover the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. You can find articles on a diverse array of musical genres, from the liturgical chants of medieval monks to the eclectic sounds of contemporary alternative rock musicians.
IPA Source: IPA Source contains phonetic transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias, German Lieder, French mélodies, and Italian art songs, featuring the texts to the works of all the great song and opera composers as found in the most common anthologies.
Iter Bibliography: The Iter Bibliography is a comprehensive online bibliography of literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes journal articles, books, dissertations, etc.
Knovel Ebooks (Engineering and Engineering Management and Safety & Industrial Hygiene): Two new collections of ebooks from Knovel include a full-text collection of leading reference handbooks and manuals in general engineering and engineering management, including interactive graphs and tables and the Knovel Safety & Industrial Hygiene collection that provides full text access to over 200 core titles in the areas of fire safety, industrial safety, industrial hygiene, radiation, and toxic substances.
Latino American Experience: The Latino American Experience (LAE) is the first-ever full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. LAE’s content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.
Featuring more than 150 titles (including award-winning titles from Greenwood, Praeger, Arte Publico, Columbia University Press, and other imprints), 1500 images, hundreds of primary documents, Spanish-language content, a Timeline, and 225 vetted web sites, LAE is the most comprehensive digital resource to date to focus exclusively on Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in America. In addition, LAE’s Origins section features both ready-reference and in-depth information about the history, culture, and customs of the people of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula.
Literature Criticism Online: Literature Criticism Online contains full-text entries for a wide-ranging selection of 10 Thomson Gale literary criticism series. This database is an excellent starting point for students and researchers needing to find biographical information about authors as well as commentary on short stories, books and plays. “Beginning-level users may simply enter an author or title and find a wealth of content, while experienced researchers may broaden or narrow their results via cross-searches on names of critics, journal titles, topics and more.”
MINTEL Academic: MINTEL Academic is a U.K. database of European and U.S. specific business to consumer market reports with an emphasis on consumer behavior. Reports give strategies for reaching target audiences for food and drink, consumer goods, retail, finance, leisure and travel industry sectors.
Natural Standard: Natural Standard was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Included are: Foods, herbs & supplements, Health & wellness, Comparative effectiveness, Medical conditions, Brand names, and other Interactive tools. This international multidisciplinary collaboration now includes contributors from more than 100 academic institutions. For each therapy covered, a research team systematically gathers scientific data and expert opinions. Validated rating scales are used to evaluate the quality of available evidence. Information is incorporated into comprehensive monographs which are designed to facilitate clinical decision making. All monographs undergo blinded editorial and peer review prior to inclusion into the databases.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online: Encompassing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur’anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam. It features several major works, including the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, the Islamic World: Past and Present, the Oxford Dictionary of Islam, the Oxford History of Islam, and What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam. This database also provides links directly from Qur’anic verse citations to corresponding sections in the text of the Qur’an, and includes two Oxford World’s Classics versions of the Qur’an.”
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online: The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online site offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Languages include Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Oxford Reference Online: Oxford Reference Online offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune and Washington Post: The Chicago Tribune (1849-1986) and the Washington Post (1877-1991) expand the Library’s collection of historical newspapers. Both of these newspapers are on the same platform as the historical New York Times (1851-2003) and Chicago Defender (1905-1975), providing the same features and usability, including the complete, full images of the newspapers from cover to cover. You can search each newspaper separately, or you can search all four ProQuest Historical Newspapers simultaneously.
PsycBOOKS: PsycBOOKS, produced by the American Psychological Association, is a full-text database of over 1700 scholarly titles in psychology and related fields. Both books and chapters within books are indexed.
Pop Culture Universe: Pop Culture Universe, PCU is an authoritative, yet irresistible, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present—in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers. Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers, PCU provides a safe haven for investigating topics that appeal to students—without the bias, advertising, suggestive content, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites.
Shakespeare Survey Online: Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.
Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year’s textual and critical studies, and of the year’s major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare’s time to our own, have characterized the journal from the start.
The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time.
Smithsonian Global Sound: “Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.”
SRDS Media Solutions: The SRDS database of media rates and information is the largest and most comprehensive in the world—cataloging more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties. SRDS delivers the accurate, up-to-date media information you need to get the job done quickly—including detailed ad rates, dates and contact data. With the majority of SRDS Media Solutions available online, you can search conveniently, create contact reports and obtain additional information with direct links to media kits and audit statements.
World Folklore and Folklife: “World Folklore and Folklife provides an exciting new gateway to social history and social studies. Tracing the origins and development of all aspects of traditional cultures around the world, World Folklore and Folklife bridges the gap between past and present and offers a fresh slant on such core curriculum topics as literature, social and religious practices, history, art, music and languages.”
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The University Libraries have acquired two new health sciences resources that may be of interest–and useful–to all. Natural Standard contains five evidence-based databases on complementary and alternative therapies. From the latest uses of aloe to the ingredients in your granola bar, you can find it here. Besides information on foods, herbs, and supplements, Natural Standard also includes:
Other features include audio podcasts, an alternative health dictionary, and a blog.
Another new resource, MedInfoNow, provides reviews of new health sciences books. Once you’ve set up your profile indicating subjects of interest, you’ll receive a new book alert email with reviews of books in your interest area each week. Additionally, the website can be accessed for health sciences book reviews in all subject categories. MedInfoNow is produced by Doody’s Book ReviewsTM, a highly regarded medical publication review service.
Links to both Natural Standard and MedInfoNow can be found in the library’s database list.
The University Libraries are pleased to announce the addition of two new historical newspapers, the Chicago Tribune (1849-1986) and the Washington Post (1877-1991). Both of these newspapers are on the same platform as the historical New York Times (1851-2003), providing the same features and usability, including the complete, full images of the newspapers from cover to cover. You can search each newspaper separately, or you can search all three ProQuest Historical Newspapers simultaneously.
These newspapers continue to expand the Libraries’ collection of historical newspapers, which in addition to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers, includes America’s Historical Newspapers. America’s Historical Newspapers is a collection of newspapers from all 50 states covering 1690-1922. Users can search across the entire collection, select a specific state or region to search or select a specific time period, allowing you to significantly refine or focus your search. America’s Historical Newspapers is part of the Archive of Americana, which is a collection of primary source documents from American History, including newspapers, books, pamphlets and broadsides.
The University Libraries are happy to announce the addition of a new popular reading collection in the Zumberge Library. Located in the cafe area on the first floor, this collection consists of popular fiction and nonfiction from authors like Michael Crichton, Janet Evanovich, Anderson Cooper, David Baldacci, Sue Grafton and more. New titles will be arriving every month so check back often!
The University Libraries are happy to announce the addition of two large new journal packages, one of which being the Project Muse Standard Collection. This collection along with the addition of a newly acquired package of Oxford University Press journals will add more than 300 journals to the Libraries’ collection. Project Muse has long been known for its strength in the humanities and social sciences, while the Oxford University Press journals cover a broad spectrum of disciplines from the sciences to the humanities. Both of these collections will add to and strengthen the Libraries’ periodicals collection, which consists of more than 70,000 print and online publications.
If you have any questions about these collections or any other library resources, please contact your subject librarian or the Libraries’ reference desk.
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