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New Electronic Resources — Winter 2010 York University Libraries continues to build its electronic collections across all disciplines. Below are some recent additions: Chemistry The ACS Symposium Series contains peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions’ symposia. The series covers a broad range of topics including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials, and many others. Engineering Synthesis Engineering Ebooks (Morgan and Claypool) Synthesis is an information service for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science. York University Libraries recently purchased the fourth and latest collection of 125 Synthesis eBook titles, which will begin delivery in January 2011. In the meantime, delivery of the 125-title third collection will be complete by December 2010. English
Canadian Book Review Annual online allows librarians to access a collection of authoritative reviews of English-language, Canadian-authored scholarly, reference, trade, children’s, and youth books published in Canada. This resource offers over 30,000 reviews and over 100 new titles added every month. General 
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — UK and Ireland, also known as Index to Theses, is a collection of citations to British and Irish dissertations and theses. The corpus of UK and Ireland dissertations and master’s theses currently comprises over half a million records, with some additional 15,000 citations added annually. History Documents on British Policy Overseas 
Documents on British Policy Overseas is a fully searchable collection of primary source documents from Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, shedding light on diplomatic history throughout the twentieth century. It is based on three distinct print series which form a record of British peacetime diplomacy since the end of the nineteenth century: British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898-1914, Documents on British Foreign Policy 1918-1939 and Documents on British Policy Overseas. Documents are selected and edited by the official historians of the FCO, with many documents specifically declassified for inclusion. Music 
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music’s 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to today, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals and world music. The expanded Fourth Edition includes thousands of new entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system. Included in this edition are online-exclusive entries that originally appeared in Oxford Music Online. Philosophy 
POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials is a reference and publishing service offering searchable access to the full text of hundreds of issues ofselected philosophy journals and series. The service is fully searchable, including thousands of articles, book reviews, dissertation listings, all abstracts, footnotes, and bibliographic listings. Structured around dozens of philosophy titles, POIESIS includes journals and series published by philosophical societies, departments, and university presses in several countries. Psychology Counselling and Therapy in Video 
Counselling and Therapy in Video provides access to a collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychologyand psychiatric counselling—more than 330 videos on completion. This current release includes 284 videos. Religious Studies 
Encyclopaedia of Judaism is now available online via the platform Brill Online. It includes more than 200 entries with advanced search options and cross-searching with other reference works under Brill Online. This edition offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and systematic presentation of the current state of scholarship on fundamental issues of Judaism, past and present. While heavy emphasis is placed on the classical literature of Judaism and its history, this edition also includes principal entries on circumcision, genetic engineering, homosexuality, intermarriage in American Judaism, and other acutely contemporary issues. This invaluable reference work is written for scholars and general readers alike. Spanish 
Latin American Women Writers is a searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included are essays by Latin American feminists and revolutionaries, who address both the universal concerns of women in every age and the distinctive issues of their struggles in the region. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing collection of writings. The database currently features 36 plays and over 60,000 pages of prose. Women’s Studies The Gerritsen Collection – Women’s History Online, 1543-1945 
In the late 1800’s, Dutch physician and feminist Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women’s rights. By 1945, the Gerritsen Collection contained more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist; many other titles present a purely objective record of the condition of women at a given time. The Gerritsen Collection consists of two segments: The Periodical Series (25 percent of the collection), including such titles as The Suffragist (1913-21) and The Women’s Protest Against Woman Suffrage (1912-18). The Monograph Language Series (4000+ titles, grouped by language):
For each monograph, there is an English-language summary of its contents. Users can search serials only, monographs only, or both simultaneously. ASCII text is searchable by keyword and Boolean operators, and records are linked to the corresponding page images, downloadable as Adobe® PDF. |
Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund Collection in York University Libraries The Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, which existed for 18 years for the purpose of assisting documentary film producers, has been discontinued – but the York Libraries have been fortunate to acquire some of the collection. We have obtained documentation relating to the CIFVF’s organizational activities, including 24 boxes of video recordings and copies of its annual reports, press releases, and examples of their lobbying efforts. The papers have been transferred to the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, while the video recordings are being added to the research and study collection of the Sound and Moving Image Library. The grant submissions are now housed with Library and Archives Canada. The Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund’s primary role was to support the development and production of media for the educa-tional community, and its loss will be felt by colleges and universities. Federal funding cuts to the cultural sector were estimated to reach $43,000,000 in the period between August 2008 and June 2009 (Toronto Star, Jan. 10, 2009) and the CIFVF was among the first casualties. Documentary film makers piece together a production budget from many funding sources. To qualify for CIFVF money they had to demonstrate that their project was original in concept (by undertaking a market survey) and that they met an educational need by securing letters of interest from prospective end users (media librarians, professors, teachers), media distributors, and educational broadcasters. Successful CIFVF applicants included:
CIFVF funding was distributed evenly among the country’s regions and so the results reflect Canada’s cultural diversity, geography and history. Faculty members who wish to reserve any of the titles in the CIFVF research and study collection for classroom showings should contact Kathryn Elder, Media Librarian, (kelder@yorku.ca), who will attempt to purchase a licensed copy from the distributor/film maker.
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