We're constantly adding new
electronic resources to our e-Resources A-Z list.
Some of these resources are listed below:
Early American Imprints Series I and II
Have you been loosing sleep wondering where you'll
be able to find more primary sources for your early American History
research? Having nightmares about using the microfilm machine???
Well, have we got the cure for you.
The Library has just recently
purchased Early American Imprints Series I and II from the distinguished
bibliographies of Charles Evans, Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H.
Shoemaker. The databases are searchable or browseable and they
cover the years
1639 to 1819.
This database can be found on the Library Databases
A-Z list : http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/a-zlist.html
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The Library now subscribes to NewspaperDirect PressDisplay, a Proquest
product that provides online access to today's newspapers from around
the world in full-color, full-page format.
This expanding collection
currently includes over 225 titles. Titles have a 45 day backfile, and
they include articles as well as other key content, such as advertisements,
classifieds, and notices. Users can take advantage of the keyword searching
capability within each issue or simply browse through the pages of their
favorite title.
The product can be accessed via the Library Databases A-Z list : http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/a-zlist.html under "PressDisplay".
We're excited about the potential of this service and hope to see more
solid, intelligent newspapers appear as this product develops.
We
welcome and encourage suggestions for other newspaper titles and we'll
pass them along to Proquest. 12/05 
Announcing the Annual Reviews Backfile Collection...
* What: Scholarly reviews, in the life, physical, and social sciences.
Series include biochemistry, earth and planetary sciences, ecology, genetics,
energy, environment, materials, microbiology, sociology, political science,
and more.
You'll also reach these Annual Review full-text articles (up through
year 2000) via InfoBridge links, when you search your favorite databases,
e.g., PsycInfo, MEDLINE (CSA version), SciFinder Scholar, or Social Sciences
Full-Text.
* Note: Individual registration is not required. (Registration allows
you to customize a personal profile for displaying or monitoring your
favorite series.)
The Library has been busy over the summer acquiring new electronic
databases for your enyoyment, and several of the old favorites have changed
platforms.
All of theses databases (and many more!!) can be found on our Databases
A-Z list at http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/a-zlist.html or
on our Research Resources by Subject Pages http://www.wellesley.edu/Library/Research/research.html
Mergent Online - U.S. and international company
data, company archives, and annual reports; historical stock prices
(20 yrs+); and industry reports. Search by company name, ticker symbol,
or SIC code. Most data downloadable to Excel.
Wall Street Journal - Text-only articles (no images)
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Westlaw Campus - similar to LexisNexis Legal Research, BUT has
hyperlinking and shepardizes every law/act
Periodical Contents Index (PCI) - index to articles
published in 4,698 periodicals in the humanities & social sciences
in 40 languages. Full text available to over 200 journals. 1665-1995
Additional company and industry content is also available in the Lexis Nexis
Business section of LexisNexis Academic (see Company Dossier and Country Profiles)
ScienceNow - Online, layperson-accessible, daily news
service reporting advances in "research, policy, funding, and exploration" for
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The Library has recently switched several databases to the Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts (CSA) platform. The content is the same, but the
look and feel are a little different, and there are lots of great features,
including a direct link to Interlibrary Loan and the ability to search
multiple databases simultaneously.
New databases to CSA are:
AGRICOLA
ATLA Religion Database
Avery Index of Architectural Periodicals
BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
EconLit
ERIC
MLA International Bibliography
PAIS International and PAIS Archive - now back to 1937!
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Periodical Contents Index
The library has purchased Periodical Contents Index, an enormous
database indexing journals going back over 200 years and covering over
40 languages in the humanities and social sciences. We have also purchased
the full text of over 200 journals indexed in the database,
so you can easily link to the full text of those journals, as well
as our other journals available through JSTOR, etc.
You can find it on our Databases A-Z list: http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/a-zlist.html
Classical Music Library is more music to your ears --
the Library now makes available Classical Music Library, an online
collection of recorded classical music, to Wellesley students, staff,
and faculty, on-campus and off-campus.
Like the Naxos Music Library, a collection of online music available
here since last November, Classical Music Library provides music
in streaming audio. Unlike Naxos, Classical Music Library focuses
on classical music only, and emphasizes major artists and major
labels. These include EMI, Hyperion, CBC, and others, with performances
by Maria Callas, Simon Rattle, Andre Previn, Placido Domingo, Janet
Baker, Thomas Hampson, Mattias Goerne, Charles Mackerras, Neville
Marriner, Emma Kirkby, Felicity Lott, Robert Levin, Marc-André Hamelin,
Angela Hewitt, Trevor Pinnock, The Sixteen, and the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra. CML also provides recordings from artists and orchestras
that record under their own labels, such as the London Symphony
Orchestra.
A bonus-- Classical Music Library provides all users with the
ability to create and save their own password-protected playlists,
for repeated listening and study.
Classical Music Library is available now on the Library's Databases
A-Z List, http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/a-zlist.html Recommended:
when you listen, select 64kpbs for better sound quality.
For technical requirements, please link to Classical Music Library
and click on their Help tab, then click on "Compatibility."
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Wellesley College students, faculty, and staff now have access to ARTstor,
a digital web resource that contains more than 300,000 images of world
art, architecture, design, photographs, and other forms of visual culture.
Images are drawn from sources such as museums, archaeological teams,
photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers. Specialized
collections in this database include the Carnegie Arts of the United
States, Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts, Huntington Archive
of Asian Art, Illustrated Bartsch, Mellon International Dunhuang Archive,
MoMA Architecture and Design, and an Art History Survey Collection comprised
of images from 10 standard art history texts. The database continues
to be updated, and 200,000 more images are to be added before 2006. ARTstor
allows users to zoom in on images, view two images side-by-side for comparison
purposes, save groups of images online, add personal notes, and create
presentations.
Wellesley College users can access ARTstor on-campus using most web
browsers at http://www.artstor.org or via the e-Resources A to Z list
at http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/a-zlist.html. Off-campus access
is also permitted, but use by students, faculty, or staff when outside
of the US is strictly limited by our license to Wellesley-related coursework
or research. To enter the digital library, users must click on the “Search
and Browse for Images” link at the left side of the ARTstor home
page. You can immediately start browsing once you're in the database,
but one-time registration is required for full access to the database’s
many features. For a Quick Start Guide and FAQs, click on “Help” at
the top of the ARTstor page.
ARTstor is solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial
in nature.
July 2005 - ARTstor has announced the
release of over 25,000 additional images into the ARTstor Digital
Library. Users of ARTstor can now view these
images, which have been provided by museums (including the
Davis Museum and Cultural Center) listed in the attached announcement.
Many of these images were formerly a part of the AMICO Library,
a collection of digital images that has announced its intention
to cease operations this summer.
As a former subscriber to AMICO, we've been asked to remember
our obligations under our AMICO Library Agreement and have been
told that no AMICO Library content may be retained beyond the terms
of the agreement, and all AMICO Library content stored in local
systems must be destroyed. Please, if you currently have any stored
data (such as downloaded images) on your computers, we ask that
you remove it/them immediately.
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New England Journal of Medicine
Includes fulltext back to January 1993. Wellesley is converting this
title to an electronic-only format starting January 2005.
http://content.nejm.org/
Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Michael J. Aminoff and Robert B. Daroff
Contains articles in more than thirty major areas of the neurological
sciences, as well as prominent neuroscientists' biographies. Offers references
to the primary journals. In html and pdf formats.
http://0-www.sciencedirect.com.luna.wellesley.edu:80/science/referenceworks/0122268709
Treatise on Geochemistry
Editors-in-Chief: Heinrich D. Holland and Karl K. Turekian
This reference work seeks to present a comprehensive, integrated summary
of the present state of geochemistry. All major parts of geochemistry
are dealt with, ranging from the chemistry of the solar system to environmental
geochemistry.
http://0-www.sciencedirect.com.luna.wellesley.edu:80/science/referenceworks/0080437516
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We are very excited to announce that the library has purchased
the Times of London Digital Archive, 1785-1985 !
It is fabulous! Besides news of course, it is great for music,
film, and book reviews. You can also search for advertisements,
photos, editorials, etc.
If you are a scholar of culinary history, I am posting this tasty
morsel from T.S. Eliot to whet your appetite for searching !
Enjoy!
Times of London is on our A-Z e-Resources list: http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/a-zlist.html
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Our new versions of PsycINFO and PsycArticles are
up and available for searching on campus, and from home or anywhere
with your Wellesley ID! The coverage is the same (PsycINFO covers
articles since 1887 and books/chapters since 1987; PsycArticles
is the full text of mostly APA journals since 1988-ish).
The new interface is much easier to use, with the various limits
to population group and age group etc. right on the main page.
Some other features that we really like and think you will too:
- At the citation level, there is a link to the article's references,
and when you click on that link, you get the list of references,
most of which are clickable to their respective records in PsycINFO.
Also, if the article has been cited by another article in the
PsycINFO database, there is a link (Times Cited) to the article
that cited it.
- Citation searching within the database is also much easier.
Simply click on the green References button at the top of the
page and you can type in the source article information, author/citation,
and you will get a list of articles that cited your source article,
if those articles have been indexed by PsycINFO.
Give it a try and give us feedback! Happy searching.
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Ebrary (marketing-speak
for 'electronic library' ) and can be accessed from the A-Z database
list on the library's website: http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/a-zlist.html.
Since it's remotely accessible from offices and homes, it can
help to sustain your research momentum when you're off campus.
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The collection numbers
about 14,000 titles and will grow to about 20,000 in the next
year. It includes titles in the humanities, social sciences and
sciences. Some are digitized public-domain classics, many others
are the digital equivalents of new and recently published works
from publishers such as MIT Press, Palgrave, Springer-Verlag,
Princeton Architectural Press, Knopf, McGraw-Hill, Routledge,
Cambridge University Press. [There are even some travel guides!]
To access the content
you will first have to download the ebrary reader. The instructions
for this are on the initial screen and it's very easy to do.
On the initial screen you'll also find an introductory 'virtual
tour' and instructions on how to search the database and/or create
your personal bookshelf . Or you can just start a search by using
the tabs at the top of the left-hand frame.
The books can be searched,
notes taken, sections underlined, and printed...but you can't
download the full text to a reader.
We anticipate adding
records for the individual books that are in this collection
to the library's catalog so that you will encounter them when
doing your research. You'll then be able to click through from
the catalog entry to the electronic book without having to start
from the A-Z list.
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International Financial Statistics and CQ Congress
Collection
The IFS (International Financial Statistics) database contains
approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries
and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country
Pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus
Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles; major Fund accounts series;
and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World
Tables. Click
here to go to IFS.
CQ Congress Collection is a dynamic, data-rich research
and reference tool allowing a sweeping historical analysis of members
of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups,
and their interactions in crafting public policy. Informed and
objective commentary also explains institutional and organizational
history, the legislative process, and public policy decision-making.
Also available, CQ Voting and Elections Collection integrates
a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations,
and historical material to help your patrons research and understand
voting and elections in America. From the American voter, to major
and minor political parties, to actual races for Congress, the
presidency, and governorships, the CQ Voting and Elections Collection
provides context-driven intelligence on the state of the free and
fair elections in America.
Click
here for CQ resources.
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UNSTATS - The United
Nations Common Database
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_help/cdb_quick_start.asp
This resource has 450+ statistical series drawn
from the UN's own databases as well as databases from other international
organizations such as the FAO, ILO, IMF, UNESCO, WHO, and World
Bank.
There are time series data beginning in 1950, different
ways of searching from simple to sophisticated, and comprehensive
footnotes and definitions. You can export data as .xls or .csv
files.
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Try it out!
It's also available from off-campus.
For more information, contact:
Betty Febo
Government Documents Coordinator
Wellesley College Library Room 246
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
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The JSTOR Music Collection contains the
complete back runs of 32 core journals dedicated to scholarly
research and theory in the field of music.
It contains articles from each periodical's first
published issue through approximately 1998. Since a number of
music journals have long histories (Music & Letters, Musical
Quarterly, Musical Times, etc.), online articles extend back
to the early 20th century and mid 19th century. See below for
a list of periodicals and dates of coverage.
The Music Collection is available via JSTOR on
the Library's A-Z list of electronic resources, at http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/a-zlist.html
For more information, contact:
Pamela Bristah, Music Librarian, Wellesley College
phone 781-283-2076,
fax 781-283-3687,
pbristah@wellesley.edu
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JSTOR MUSIC COLLECTION
JOURNALS
19th-Century Music (1977-1998)
Acta Musicologica (1928-1997)
American Music (1983-2000)
Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (1899-1998)
Asian Music (1968-1999)
Black Music Research Journal (1980-1999)
British Journal of Ethnomusicology (1992-1997)
Cambridge Opera Journal (1989-1997)
Early Music (1973-1997) (to be released at a later date)
Early Music History (1981-1997)
Ethnomusicology (1953-1998)
The Galpin Society Journal (1948-1997)
International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (1970-1995)
The Journal of Music Theory (1957-1997)
The Journal of Musicology (1982-1998)
Journal of the American Musicological Society (1948-1997)
Journal of the Royal Musical Association
(1874-1997)
Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana
(1965-1999)
Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture (formerly
Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung) (1928-1998)
Music Analysis (1982-1998)
Music & Letters (1920-1997)
Music Theory Spectrum (1979-1998)
The Musical Quarterly (1915-1997)
The Musical Times (1844-1999)
Notes (1934-1997)
Perspectives of New Music (1962-1995)
Popular Music (1981-1997)
Revue de Musicologie (1917-1995)
Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (1961-1997)
Tempo (1939-1997)
Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis
(1869-1997)
Yearbook for Traditional Music (1949-1998)
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