New to our databases and other electronic resources:
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)–Very large collection of books from the 18th century in a variety of European languages.
Making of the Modern World–Works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850.
Economist–Historical archive of The Economist from 1843-2003.
New JSTOR Collection, Arts and Sciences VI
JSTOR Arts and Sciences VI has just been added to our digital collections. Click here for the complete title list and more information.
ARTstor Collections Summary 2008
ARTstor Collections Summary 2008
In 2008, the community continued to contribute important and unique collections to the ARTstor Digital Library. ARTstor released 22 new collections, added content to 21 existing collections, and reached agreements with 33 new museums, photoarchives, libraries, scholars, professional photographers, and artists and artists’ estates. The ARTstor Digital Library collection now totals 890,000 images and will soon include nearly 1,000,000 images with the release of the Magnum Photos collection in early 2009. Continue reading “ARTstor Collections Summary 2008”
Workshop on Open Access Publishing and Digital Libraries, Dec. 10
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to attend a workshop on Open Access publishing and digital libraries. The Open Access movement is revolutionizing scholarly communication–scholars are making their research freely available on the Internet. Many Open Access journals are published online only and are peer-reviewed. We’ll learn about the history and current status of Open Access movement and discuss its impact on our scholarship. Digital Libraries are online collections of content ranging from archival materials to videos to articles to raw data to theses. We’ll look at special search engines as well as key disciplinary repositories. This presentation will benefit faculty looking for new venues to share their work before, during, and after publication. In addition, faculty will learn about new resources for research.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, December 10, from 1-1:45 pm in the library classroom, A 540. RSVP to Prof. Monica Berger: mberger@citytech.cuny.edu
New Content Added to Black Drama
We’ve upgraded to Black Drama, Second Edition, which adds 110 plays (for a total of 1310 plays) from 210 playwrights to the collection. New and notable additions to the second edition include plays written by Pearl Cleage (American), Maryse Conde (Guadeloupean), Alice Childress (American), Femi Euba (Nigerian), James Weldon Johnson (American), Adrienne Kennedy (American), Anna Deveare Smith (American), Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenyan), Roy Williams (English), and many others.
HighWire Journals in Ebsco Databases
Links to the 326 journals in Stanford’s open access HighWire are now available in Ebsco databases. Many of these journals are in science but there are a considerable number of titles in the social sciences, humanities, and other areas. HighWire offers 2,029,167 articles free of charge.
In Ebsco, look for “Check Highwire Press for Full Text.” Note that many HighWire titles have embargoes that limit users from access to current content.
Obama Profiled in Oxford African American Studies Center
Springer Architecture Ebooks Trial
We are trialing an architecture/design ebook collection from SpringerLink through 12/8/08. There are entire ebooks as well as book chapters and the collection can be browsed by architect and other subjects. Please send comments to Monica.
New! Pop Culture Universe
Check out our new resource, Pop Culture Universe. It covers [from the publisher’s website] ”new technology (iPods, gaming, gadgets)…Internet memes and chatspeak…movies, TV, radio…music…comics and graphic novels…sports and pastimes…fads, fashion, and fast food.” And it has tools for instructors to incorporate popular culture into the classroom as well as resources for student work.
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