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New Electronic Resources Fall 2009 York University Libraries continues to build its electronic collections across all disciplines. Below are some recent additions: BUSINESS 
GFS Online contains annual statistical data on revenue, expense, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors as reported by member countries. Sub-annual GFS are available through the online application relating to International Financial Statistics (IFS).GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Geobase is a bibliographic database for the earth, geographical and ecological sciences. Coverage includes 2,000+ international journals, including both peer-reviewed titles and trade publications, from 1980 to the present. Geobase replaces one of York University Libraries’ previous online subscriptions, Geography.
Urban Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas relevant to the discipline. The index contains more than 45,000 records which are selected from various sources within the discipline, such as: Urban Affairs Review, Urban studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1973. HISTORY Online Egyptological Bibliography
Published by the Griffith Institute, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) provides coverage of Egyptological literature from 1822 to 2002 (roughly 70,000 items). LAW HeinOnline: Session Laws Library
This collection contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. States (as well as the Acts of the Parliament of Canada) from approximately 1995 to present. Future releases in HeinOnline will include new session laws as published as well as expanded coverage of historical session laws prior to 1995. MUSIC Rock’s Back Pages is an online database of rock music writing in the world. Sourced from the pages of the music and mainstream press, it is a library of articles (reviews, interviews, features and more) from the early 1960's right up to the present day. In addition to the archive of text articles, it also provides exclusive mp3 audio files of original source interviews. The Jazz Discography provides information about jazz records and jazz recording sessions, listed by bandleader name and presented in chronological order. Session details include the titles of each tune recorded, plus the names of all supporting musicians and the instrument(s) they played. The date and location of each recording plus matrix and record company release numbers are also shown.
SOCIAL WORK Encyclopedia of Social Work
Co-published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, the 20th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work includes coverage of areas that have come to the fore since the 1995 publication of the 19th edition, including demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster. It contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work. Arranged in A-Z format, each article is cross-referenced and includes a select bibliography to guide interested readers to primary sources and scholarly works on a given subject. The work also includes an index and topical outline. The Encyclopedia is for use by social work practitioners, scholars, and students alike. |
The Jazz Discography
2.5 million and counting: York University benefits from one of the finest research collections in Canada. By some standards we are a young collection (50 years in the making) but we have made up for lost time. Our collections now boast over 2.5 million volumes in the collection and our catalogue includes many more items such as sound and video recordings, archival papers, maps, data, microfilm, online databases, etc. We are committed to continuing to build rich collections to support the research, teaching and learning needs of the York community. Key to the development of our collections is the role that you as faculty or graduate students can play in helping us build and shape our collections. Our liaison librarians pay special attention to the feedback we get from our researchers who use our resources. You can help us by sending us your suggestions in one of two ways: • You can contact your liaison librarian directly, or If you discover a title we do not have, you can also consider making an interlibrary loan request using RACER. We routinely review these requests to identify areas of the collection to strengthen.
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