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C19:  The Nineteenth Century Index     NEW offering
This innovative new resource now has over 17M records.  It includes a fully searchable and browsable edition of Poole’s Index, allowing users to cross-search this acclaimed subject index together with bibliographic records from a number of other known indexes and collections, including the Wellesley Index, Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, Palmer’s Index to the Times, American Periodical Series, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, and 19^th century materials from Periodicals Index Online!  This dynamic resource is becoming “the spine” of 19^th century digitized literature, from whatever source.    Link out to full text you own or to which you subscribe. 

Early English Books Online is still growing with thousands of new works added recently.

• Links to author pages in Literature Online for mutual customers.  Links now appear alongside author names on results and records in EEBO for all authors who have Author Pages in Literature Online. This provides EEBO users with instant access to the keyed texts, biographies, bibliographies, critical references and web sites for 956 authors who appear in both of these resources.  Library Administrators can request that these links be activated by filling out the form in EEBO's Information Resources page.
• Option to include typographical variants in your results, automatically broadens a search to include common early modern variant forms of your search term, making it easier to find relevant material.  A new single character wildcard is also available.
• The next release will include improved image viewing and navigation.

Literature Online has had updates, with the following highlights:

• More than 190 full-text literary journals, linked to the ABELL index and to the MLA International Bibliography, if subscribed to this additional module
• Newly commissioned biographies, raising the total to more than 3,500, including a variety of writers such as Noam Chomsky, Chrétien de Troyes, bell hooks, Dambudzo Marechera, Larry McMurtry, Pablo Neruda, Grace Nichols, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Terence Rattigan and Derek Walcott
• Additional resources may be found in the growing collection of literary web sites, selected by our editorial team for authority, accuracy and stability.  There are over 5, 470 web sites selected, indexed by author, title or work, literary period and literary movement.  The links are checked monthly
• Literature Online’s acclaimed webmaster feature allows any user to correspond directly with the highly experienced editorial team of Literature Online for content, functionality and other types of questions.  Links to the webmaster feature are found at the bottom of every page in the site.

MLA International Bibliography  newest updates include:

• Content from the MLA editorial team delivered ten times yearly
• The browseable subject thesaurus lists now include 'non-preferred terms' – which lead users to the MLA preferred forms of the subject term
• The MLA thesaurus has also been enhanced to include author pseudonyms (non-preferred forms of names), which are found in the browse lists on the advanced search page

The Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue (NSTC)

• Renowned bibliographic database that catalogs the 19^th century holdings of eight of the world’s top research libraries, with more than 1.2 million searchable entries. 
• Contributing libraries include The British Library, the Bodleian Library (Oxford), the Cambridge University Library, Trinity College Dublin Library, National Library of Scotland, the Newcastle University Library, Harvard University Library and the Library of Congress.   
• NSTC evolved into a much larger resource called “C19:  The Nineteenth Century Index”   (new in Nov. 2005) which includes indexing from Palmer’s, American Periodical Series, Parliamentary Papers, 19^th Century PCI titles, PLUS the Wellesley Index!    This is “the spine” of 19^th century digitized literature, from whatever source.  (see above for more information)

Literature Collections include these enhancements:

• Durable URLs, which allows book marking and placement of text links into WebCT, Blackboard or other course web pages
• Marked List function for mailing, printing or saving
• Search History
• Wildcard and truncation operators
• Variant typography search function
• Complete Contents allows easy browsing of all content and links through to the full-text directly
• Free MARC records for easier access from your catalog

African Writers Series   The next release of new content will be this summer.  The collection has garnered praise from a January review in Choice:

• “Highly recommended” and “an extremely valuable and usable tool providing ready access to a rich world of literature”
• Chinua Achebe

Twentieth Century Drama  Look for a new release of this collection this summer, additional addition content not found elsewhere.  Did you know:

• There are more ethnicities found in this one collection than any other
• When complete with 2,600 plays, over 600 will not be found in any other electronic collection available
• Twentieth Century Drama may be cross-searched within Literature Online for complete results in criticism, reference, and additional primary works (such as the poetry of Oscar Wilde, Edna St. Vincent Millay and the prose works of Joseph Conrad)

Alt-PressWatch

• Alt-PressWatch has over 190,000 articles from more than 175 publications
• Ability to cross search the diversity databases with other ProQuest products in your subscription
• The “More like this option” automatically displays related information on the same topic
• A content-specific thesaurus to focus searches
• 100% full text offers big stories from small sources

Black Studies Center    

The core of this center is Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience.  The database provides a topical view of the Black Studies canon, with unique primary content, scholarly analyses, and rare primary documents.  It also provides background materials that help your users put these primary sources in their proper setting.  Also, you’ll find a complete multimedia library --- captioned and searchable. 

Black Studies Center consists of: 1) Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, 2) International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, and 3) the Chicago Defender, 1909 – 1975.     Other databases of interest in this discipline include:

• African-American Biographical Database
• African Writers Series
• 20^th Century African-American Poetry
• African-American Poetry, 1760-1900
• Ethnic NewsWatch

Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History   now available by subscription, as well as purchase. 

• Together, Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History span over 40 years with more than 1.3 million full-text, fully indexed articles
• Ability to cross search the diversity databases with other ProQuest products in your subscription
• More Search Options features including Ethnic Group
• Help feature is now available in Spanish, and screen assists are translated as well
• Homepage highlights unique publication information
• 30 years of backfile coverage from 1960 to 1989

GenderWatch

• Over 105,000 articles from 203 publications explore gender roles as reported since 1970
• Ability to cross search the diversity databases with other ProQuest products in your subscription
• More Search Options features including Biographical (personal profiles)

The Gerritsen Collection—Women’s History Online, 1543-1945

• Doubled speed and accuracy by replacing search engine
• Interface enhancements in response to 4-star Charleston Advisor review (added unmark all button, on-screen help prompts)

PRISMA: Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas A new release in March gives new content and functionality to this resource for full-text Latin American periodicals:

• Peer review limiter is now available
• Portuguese interface
• Browse lists may be viewed in Spanish or Portuguese for country and language
• Email alerts for saved searches!
• Results overview by journal now opens up in the main window, so that you can see how many articles and citations (for HAPI subscribers) are found in each journal
• A total of 89 full-text titles are now available; more titles are licensed each month
• Over 60% of HAPI’s most recent citations (2005) are covered in PRISMA’s full text

American Periodicals Series™  All 1,500 titles and approx. 7M pages are now complete!  APS can be searched and browsed as a complete collection, or in conjunction with ProQuest Historical Newspapers™, giving researchers and students access to 250 years of American of wide ranging serial publications and editorial opinion.  Free MARC records are now available.

Coming Soon - ProQuest now offers the full-run (nearly 100,000 pages) of Liberty Magazine (1924-1950) as an add-on collection to American Periodicals Series Online. Focusing on everyday life in the Roaring ‘20s through the Great Depression and ending with the post-WWII boom, Liberty was truly “A Weekly for Everybody.”  This magazine is the first in APS Online to be scanned in color.

ArchivesUSA™ was updated and now includes:

• current directory information for 5,550 archival repositories
• subject indexing for 154,400 collections of primary source material housed across the United States.
• includes 61,023 NIDS (National Inventory of Documentary Sources) records and 98,674 NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections) records
• links to over 5,000 online finding aids and 2,350 repository home pages

British Periodicals    NEW  

Captures British life from the late 1600s to the early 1900s. 

• First collection from the UMI® Early British Periodicals microfilm of 166 renowned British periodicals dealing with literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts, and social sciences, published between 1681-1937
• 3.1M full text pages
• First release of approx. 20 titles will be available by May, including Bentley’s, Chamber’s, Dark Blue, Foreign Quarterly Review, Fraser’s, Nineteenth Century, Household Words and more!  

Digital National Security Archive™ NEW Interface
(DNSA) launched two new collections in December (descriptions below), bringing the total number of collections to 27.

The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
This new collection documents the role in government of one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of modern U.S. foreign relations. As national security adviser (1969-1975) and secretary of state (1973-1977), Henry A. Kissinger played a central, and sometimes dominating, role in shaping U.S. foreign and military policy during the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. To illuminate Kissinger's wide ranging involvement in world politics, the National Security Archive collected as many records of his conversations as could be found at government archives, or otherwise obtained through declassification requests to government agencies. The result is a comprehensive resource for substantive research on U.S. diplomatic and military history during the late 1960s and the 1970s.

History Study Center™ NEW Interface
Enhancements consist of:

• New journal library with 50 premier full-text history journals
• Enhanced map library including the new and exclusive Chadwyck-Healey Atlas to World History with maps from Cartographica and enhanced zooming and scrolling in maps
• Expanded Reference Library with 54 reference works and picture library with more than 3,000 historical images
• More than 40,000 documents that showcase key historical events

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801 – 2005   Now available.  The Parliamentary Papers represent a very important source of primary information since they broadly cover everything officially published concerning the British Parliament and its work over two centuries.  They include debates, proceedings and reports of their committees and outside bodies on public affairs, etc. Scholars find them particularly important because they cover a wide range of social, economic, legal and political topics, while providing this view not only for the United Kingdom, but for the whole of the British Empire and the world it influenced.  For the first time, students and scholars can easily uncover information relating to a wide range of topics, including:  British Imperialism, the move from an agrarian society to an industrial one, social conditions of the working class, slavery, public health issues, removal of the American Indians, the World Wars, travel and immigration, space exploration, terrorism and more. 

All 77,000+ papers from 1801-1900 are now complete.  The War Years – 1914-1970 - are coming this summer. 

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals      Available Now

The FIAF index will release in May with over 300,000 index records from 300 of the world’s foremost academic and popular film journals, from 1972 onward. Records will include full indexing and abstracting, with subject terms developed specifically for film studies.

The FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals also includes:

• The International Index to TV Periodicals (1979-1998)
• Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world
• The International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections

A single search will retrieve relevant records from all these components.

New full text version available as a separate subscription

Film Indexes Online: This is a free searchable portal for subscribers to Film Index International and American Film Institute Catalog

• More content has been loaded into the two film indexes
• Make sure you implement the two newest features via the Administration resource area:
  • reference linking: hyperlinked references to journal and magazine articles about the films themselves to support further research
  • Film Finder feature, which allows a film’s record to link out to library holdings for videos, films, and DVDs.
• Films released in 2005 and 2006 have been loaded into Film Index International – a total of over 1,085 new films.
• Records from the American Film Institute Catalog have been updated to reflect new information and releases regarding films produced from 1892 to 1970.  Almost 47,500 of the most detailed records on American films are included.

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text and International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text   new content is released every month in these indexes

• Great News!  Naxos Music Library subscribers and IIMP customers will be able to search this audio resource through IIMP and IIMP Full Text, with the upcoming release in the Fall.
  • Naxos music information and tracks will be linked to relevant articles and citations in IIMP for mutual customers; Naxos will open in a separate window for Naxos customers
  • Naxos reference material has been licensed for inclusion into IIMP for all customers.  This content includes composer information and images, glossary, pronunciation guide, and music fundamental terms
• IIMP now contains almost 570,000 citations, from 1874 to current, with abstracts from 1996 onwards
• IIMP Full Text currently gives access to almost 202,000 full-text articles from the most important music journals
• IIPA now contains over 344,000 citations, from 1864 to current, with abstracts from 1998 onwards
• IIPA Full Text currently gives access to over 80,550 full-text articles from a variety of the top performing arts journals