What's New in eResources

We have a variety of eResources offerings to draw to your attention since the last newsletter. They include such key reference sources as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Oxford Reference Online, to more research oriented products like Black Thought and Culture], American Film Scripts and North American Women's Letters and Diaries. Want to determine the impact factor of a journal you're considering for submission? Try Journal Citation Reports.

Remember that these can easily be consulted by typing the title of the product into the Title Quick Search box on the Libraries' homepage, then clicking the eRESOURCES button. See below. (Note: If you are accessing these remotely, be sure to click the eResources at Home Quick Sign-On link first, located on the left side of the homepage.)

New eResources

American Film Scripts
American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) is an ongoing project to digitize and thoroughly index 1,000 film scripts. This edition contains 265 scripts by 334 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. The primary focus of the database is the written work, rather than the film itself. It allows users to see and understand the structure of films, character development, beginnings and endings, plot points and scenes. For more details, visit http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/afsolive/.

Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture (BLTC) contains 438 works of non-fiction written by 192 leading African Americans totaling some 38,000 pages. When complete, Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews and other fugitive material written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art. The collection begins with the works of Frederick Douglass and is targeted to include the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Mary McLeod Bethune, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Bunche, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Houston Baker, Jesse Jackson, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, and many others. For more information, visit http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/bltclive/.

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
This Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale. It comprises 4,000 articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes. See http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/0080430767.

Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show you the:

• Most frequently cited journals in a field
• Highest impact journals in a field
• Hottest journals in a field
• Leading journals in a field
• Most published articles in a field

See http://isi6.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi/jcr/ for more information.

Literature Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center is comprised of three key author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 115,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.
See http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/yorku_main?db=LitRC for more detail.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. This database product contains data from Yearbooks 9 through 15. For more information, see http://web5s.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=c83999&databases=YB.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, including more than 6,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from more than 600 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. It includes some 300 biographies to enhance the use of the database.
For more information, visit http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/nwldlive/.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a very large collection of biographies of people in British history, which has been written by thousands of specialists worldwide. The biographies cover the lives of over 50,000 noteworthy people from all walks of life in the British past, including artists, scientists, writers, industrialists, performers, explorers, criminals, and eccentrics as well as politicians, church leaders, and soldiers, mariners, doctors, and lawyers. The biographies are written by experts and provide up-to-date scholarship but are also concise and readable. See http://www.oxforddnb.com/ for more information.

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource. York subscribes to the Premium Collection which offers all of the above, plus added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
See http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html for more details.

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