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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