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British Periodicals (Collection I) provides access to the searchable full text of more than 160 British periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. It includes millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Subject areas covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences
Cambridge Companions Online are accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. All are collections of specially commissioned essays, shaped and introduced to appeal to student readers. Together the chapters add up to a systematic critical account of, for example Plato, Luther, Jane Austen, Tom Stoppard or Stravinsky, the French Novel or Jewish American Literature, and each title is supported by reference features such as a chronology and guide to further reading.  Addressing topics and figures as diverse as Gothic Fiction and Arabic Philosophy, WB Yeats and Martin Luther, the online collection contains over 4000 downloadable essays, taken from 480 Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics (262 volumes), Philosophy, Religion and Culture (161 volumes) and Music (57 volumes).
New ABC-Clio ebooks

• Brazil Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic
• Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia
• Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual Commemorations

New Gale Virtual Reference Center ebook

• Congress Investigates: A Critical and Documentary History

Refworks will be unavailable from 12 AM (Midnight) On Sunday, May 6th, until 5 AM Sunday Morning.   The timing is unfortunate but it out of our control.  Please plan your work accordingly.
- update - 5/4/12 - the outage has been reduced to only 2 hours from midnight to 2 AM.

Times Digital Archive coverage has been extended by 20 years and now covers 1785-2006.  A bonus is an updated interface which adds search options under the advanced search.
Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Cultural Sociology of the Middle East , Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of American Environmental History
• Encyclopedia of Global Religion
• Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds
• Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds

M.E Sharpe

• Civil War Era and Reconstruction: an encyclopedia of social, political, cultural, and economic history
• Settlement of America 1607-1890
• World Terrorism

New Database of eBooks added

• ebrary Academic Complete - the Academic Complete collection from ebrary consists of over 70,000 full text scholarly ebooks.  Records will be added to the online catalog over then next few months making discovery easier.  There are no limits on simultaneous use which will allow faculty to link to the titles for course reserves.  Users can download many of the books on to ereaders including Ipads, Iphones and other devices supporting Adobe Digital Editions for up to 14 days.

New databases of news sources added

• Jerusalem Post Historical Newspaper 1932-1988 - The world’s top English-language daily newspaper covering Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish World. Founded in 1932 by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post, the publication supported the struggle for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and openly
  opposed British policy restricting Jewish immigration during the Mandate period. In 1950, two years after the State of Israel was declared, the paper was renamed The Jerusalem Post.
• World News Connection -  2006+ -  discover what’s really happening in specific countries and regions of Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Europe,the Middle East, the Americas, and Oceania. Information is available within 24-72 hours from original publication or broadcast, and is compiled and translated from more than 800 non-U.S. media sources, including news articles, Web sites, broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.  Earlier content is available from Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974-1996 on the Newsbank platform.

Content added to existing resources

• Scientific American Online - 1845  through 1947 are now available online making the entire journal available online

New digital reference books have been added
Cambridge Histories Online

• The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 1: c. 400–1100
• The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
• The Cambridge History of Musical Performance
• The Mughal Empire

Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds
• Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds

M.E. Sharpe eReference

• Civil War Era and Reconstruction
• World Terrorism: an encyclopedia of political violence from ancient times to the post-9/11 era

Oxford Art Online

• Benezit Dictionary of Artists -  Part of the Oxford Art Online.  Content is based on the 2006 English-language edition of Emmanuel Bénézit's Dictionary of artists. Contains artist biographies, auction records, exhibition histories, museum listings, bibliographies, images of artists signatures and monograms

New Gale Virtual Reference Library books added include:

• Critical Companion to Alice Walker: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work
• Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census: From the Constitution to the American Community Survey
• Governing America: Major Decisions of Federal - State - and Local Governments from 1789 to the Present
• Green Issues and Debates: An A-to-Z Guide
• Health and Medicine
• Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds

New ABC-Clio ebooks
The 9/11 Encyclopedia: Second Edition
Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia
Ethiopia
Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia
India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic
 
New Oxford Digital Reference titles
Dictionary of African Biography
Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible
 
New volumes have been added to Cambridge Histories Online
The Cambridge History of African American Literature
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature
The Cambridge History of China : v .5 The Sung Dynasty and its Precursors, 907–1279
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature : To 1375
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature : From 1375
The Cambridge History of Christianity v.3 Early Medieval Christianities, c.600–c.1100
The Cambridge History of Christianity v.4 c.1100–c.1500
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music
The Cambridge History of English Poetry
Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature
The Cambridge History of French Literature
Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy
Cambridge History of Latin America v.9 :Brazil since 1930
The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy v.1
The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy v.2
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity v.1
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity v.2
Cambridge History of Science : v.6 The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences
The Cambridge History of South Africa v.1 From Early Times to 1885
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
Cambridge History of the Book in Britain v.6 1830–1914
Cambridge History of The Byzantine Empire
The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages v.1 Structures
Cambridge History of Turkey v. 1 : Byzantium-Turkey, 1071–1453
Cambridge World History of Slavery, v.1
Cambridge World History of Slavery, v. 3
New Cambridge History of Islam
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.1 The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.2 The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.3 The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.4 Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.5 The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.6 Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society since 1800

Coming back from the semester break, it would be hard to miss the Traveling Abolition Museum exhibit from the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum which is currently on Level 5 of Case-Geyer.
 
Colgate University Libraries have access to a great number of relevant online resources on abolition and anti-slavery in addition to our extensive print collections.  A few are listed below:
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: a transnational archive

We have access to part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition and part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World. Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade and the global movement for the abolition of slavery from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.

• This database contains:2.6 million cross-searchable pages: 10748 books, 130 serials, 32 manuscript collections and 377 supreme court records and briefs

African American Newspapers - 1827-1998  - Newsbank Readex
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 enables users to search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience
 
African American Newspapers - 19th Century-  Accessible Archives
This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
 
Databases containing full text articles and newspapers

• American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals - 1691-1877

This collection documents the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877. More than 7,600 periodicals comprised of over seven million pages is be available.  Searching on terms such as slave* retrieves more than 25,000 articles.
A number of early ebook collections including:

• America's Historic Imprints (Early American Imprints - Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker) 1639 -1820
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)  -1800-1900

A more extensive list of print and online resources is available on the SubjectPlus pages : Abolition & the Underground Railroad created by Emily Hutton-Hughes.

The Art Full Text database moved last month to the EbscoHOST platform however the links in JournalFinder and ArticleLinker still pointed to the WilsonWeb platform.  As of today, Art Full Text content is linked to the EbscoHOST content.  Any users who have saved persistant links to content in the WilsonWeb platfrom should update them.

Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective have moved to the EbscoHOST platform.  Full text from these databases will now appear as available in other databases and any full text from the other EbscoHOST databases will appear within these.   Some content will remain on the Wilsonweb platform for a few weeks but will eventually migrate to EbscoHOST.  Users will be directed to the available content via JournalFinder and ArticleLinker.
 
Gale Virtual Reference Library has a new updated interface with more intuitive searching and results display.  This collection contains over 1,000 online reference books including those purchased by the University Libraries and a collection of literature reference books provided by the NovelNY program.  
 
 

The Wiley Token access to journals is not currently working.  The titles can be idenified in JournalFinder or ArticleLinker as in Wiley-Blackwell pilot token access.  Available via token access program.   The vendor is working to restore access later today or tomorrow.  Until it is restored, patrons can request items via Interlibrary Loan.  The department is aware of the problems and will process the requests. 
 
------Sunday December 11, 2011
We believe the token problem has been resolved.  Please report any difficulties to either the reference desk or Mike Poulin.