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Added content in FBIS Daily Reports Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports The 8th release (of a total of 8 releases) of the FBIS Daily Reports online has been issued. Content from contained is from West (and Western) Europefrom 1974 through 1996.
 
There will be several small maintenance releases adding missing documents that will occur over the next 6 months when the collection will be completed.
 

NY State's NOVELny statewide database program has added Proquest Platinum and Grolier Online to its collection of databases available to all NY state residents.  Proquest Platinum contains over 2,000 full-text general interest journals.  Grolier Online provides a number of general encycopedias and dictionaries. 
 
They also cancelled a number of full text encyclopedias in the areas of history and medicine.  Those have been removed from the Library's website.

Back in January CRL purchased a large batch of material with member funds.  The items rejected from the fall wish list were then available for individual library sponsorship under the “shared purchase program”.  A group of the larger research libraries banded together and raised enough funds to make certain titles affordable for the group.  The list of titles which will be purchased is below.
 

• Bibliothek der Frauenfrage in Deutschland collection Supplements 1 & 2.459 fiche
  The two supplements will augment the works in the original set acquired by CRL previously, containing literature on the German women’s movement and gender studies.
• Flugschriften des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg [17th Century Pamphlets in the Augsburg State and City Library].683 fiche.
  • (Note: Three institutions expressed interest in access to the PDF download service for an additional cost for their institutions.  Negotiations are underway. CRL will forward additional information when available.)
• Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Marathi Jewish Printing in India. 1,376 fiche.
  The Valmadonna Collection of Hebrew and Jewish books from India is a unique and unparalleled resource for the study of Eastern printing and lithography, Hebrew poetry and liturgical history, Eastern Judeo-Arabic literature, and the folklore traditions and vernacular writings of the Jews of South Asia. 

Added content in FBIS Daily Reports Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports The 7th release (of a total of 8 releases) of the FBIS Daily Reports online has been issued. Content from contained is from the Soviet Union and Central Eurasia from 1974 through 1996

Users connecting to the Wiley Blackwell journals may find them unavailable beginning at 9 a.m Saturday, February 2nd, during maintenance to the vendor's website.  Links in ArticleLinker and JournalFinder will be labelled either Wiley InterScience or Blackwell-Synergy.

Added content in FBIS Daily Reports Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports The 6th release (of a total of 8 releases) of the FBIS Daily Reports online has been issued. Content from contained is from East Europe from 1974 through 1996.

The new book lists are available for 1,146 titles cataloged during the month of January 2009.  47 new videos added have also been created.

New online reference book from Sage

• Encyclopedia of African Religion
  This encyclopedia is a comprehensive work to assemble ideas, concepts, discourses, and extensive essays on African religion.

New online reference books from Greenwood

• Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States - volume 1 - Encyclopedia A-Z
• Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States - volume 2 - Primary Documents
  These volumes draw on religious, cultural, social, and political perspectives on Islam in America. It considers history, descriptions of religious practices, ideas, theories, portraits of major intellectual, religious, and political figures among American Muslims, and the influences of domestic and international politics.

New online reference books from Gale

• Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior - 3rd edition
  Explores the social, medical, legal and political issues related to drugs and alcohol and associated behaviors.

The Burney Collection has been added to the primary sources available for student and faculty research.
The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of news and newspapers and the free press, totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. The earliest publication is dated 1604 and the latest 1800.

New online reference books from ABC-Clio

• Abortion in the United States
• Campaign and Election Reform: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition
• Conflict Between India and Pakistan: An Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture
• Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture
• Mexico: A Global Studies Handbook
• Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview
• Renewable and Alternative Energy Resources: A Reference Handbook
• Utopias in American History
• Women, Science, and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present

New online reference books from Sage

• Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
• Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior