“AnthroSource, the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists”; see the Database Trials page for details and the database link.
July 24, 2006
July 21, 2006
New trial: Birds of North America Online
On the trials page: <http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Staff/eResourcesNews/trials.htm>
From the vendor:
The Birds of North America (BNA) is only the fourth comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. … [T]his series provides detailed scientific information (18 volumes, 18,000 pages in total) for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada. … [C]ontents will be updated frequently, with online-coordinated contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. In addition, BNA Online will build image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. And each online species account will contain recordings of that bird’s songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell’s Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.
July 18, 2006
July 17, 2006
July 11, 2006
July 6, 2006
More new resources: FAITS and GMID
The Bronfman Business Library has added two new databases to the collection which will be of interest in a number of disciplines:
- Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies provides reports on information technology and information management for the academic community. Areas covered include: IT infrastructure; Networking; Wireless Communications and the Internet and the WWW. Reports are provided as are tutorials, directories, market overviews, company profiles and product reviews and standards. FAITS also has Canadian content and includes good profiles of some Canadian companies in the IT and Telecom sectors. It is an excellent source for current information related to Information Technology. To access this database type either Faulkner Advisory or FAITS in the Title Quick Search box on the Libraries home page.
- Global Market Information Database — accessible via the Title Search Box under Global Market Information Database, GMID, or Euromonitor. The main elements of GMID are:
- Country statistics: GMID contains over 1 million hard-to-find demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide with historic data back to 1977 and forecast statistics.
- Country profiles: Key political and economic indicators are examined in 205 countries.
- Lifestyle indicators: A large range of lifestyle indicators are researched for 71 countries worldwide.
- Lifestyle analysis: To help put the consumer lifestyle statistics in context there are lifestyle reports for 66 countries with factors influencing lifestyle choices to provide the story behind the numbers.
- Market data: GMID has historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. It allows analysis of trends in consumer spending, establishing the largest markets for a product, the fastest growing markets, those that are mature and those in decline.
- Market analysis and industry intelligence: There are over 3,500 market reports in GMID offering in-depth strategic analysis for consumer, industrial and service sectors providing a picture of factors driving market growth, operating environments, corporate and brand strategies of key players in a market and what the future holds.
- Companies and market shares: There are profiles of 3,000 leading consumer goods companies operating nationally, regionally and worldwide including ranking of companies by key performance indicators such as market share or sales.
- Information sources: GMID gives direct access to thousands of international market, business information sources, and economic indicators from national statistical offices, government departments, trade associations, and market research publishers.
July 5, 2006
ProQuest outage on July 15
From the vendor:
The next ProQuest platform enhancement release is scheduled for July 15th. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install the exciting new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 22:00 EDT and end Sunday, July 16th at 10:00 EDT. Enhancements include:
- Implementation of Spell Check – This exciting new feature is available for products on the ProQuest platform. Spell Check will ask the user a “Did you mean…” question on the search results page to prompt for spelling corrections inside the user’s search query.
- Springer Premium Content – ProQuest is pleased to announce an agreement with Springer that will bring un-embargoed full-text Springer business, general reference, and medicine journals from Springer to online databases including
- ABI/INFORM® Global, ProQuest Medical Library™, ProQuest Health and Medical Complete™ and ProQuest Research Library™. This agreement allows ProQuest to distribute the journal content electronically to libraries to meet patrons need for immediate access to the most up-to-date information available.
- Support for Subject Subsets within ProQuest Dissertations and Theses – Not only will customers with one of the larger subject subsets be able to move to PQDT in the ProQuest Platform, but other customers who want to subscribe to smaller, full-text subsets – like Medicine or Agriculture – will be able to do so also.
- E-Book abstracting and indexing available in ProQuest Medical databases – ProQuest has created abstracting and indexing for the MyiLibrary Medical books which will link from the A&I directly to the full-text found in the corresponding medical book. This data can be dropped into a customers account upon request.
The following products will be unavailable during this window:
- ProQuest®, including ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
- Third-party databases such as CINAHL® Database with Full Text font
- ProQuest Archiver™
- eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™
- “Digital Vault” products, including the Gerritsen Collection, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Policy File, DNSA, and Digital Sanborn Maps
New products!
It’s been a while since the last entry, so you’re going to get a lot of stuff this time. Here’s some info on some new products:
- Europa World Plus
This is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world’s leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories. The nine volume regional surveys can all be searched as discrete titles include:- Africa South of the Sahara
- Central and South-eastern Europe
- Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia
- Far East and Australasia
- Middle East and North Africa
- South America, Central America and the Caribbean
- South Asia
- USA and Canada
- Western Europe
- Proquest/MyiLibrary
Twenty-two titles spanning health, medicine, biology, social sciences and psychology. - Black Studies Center
Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience (can pull this out directly by searching on this title) as well as the full backfile of the Chicago Defender (1910 – 1975). - C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
- African Writers Series
- Smithsonian Global Sound
- African American Song
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life with Fulltext (via SP)
Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Life with Fulltext (via Ebsco)
GLBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in GLBT Life as well as full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant GLBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized GLBT Thesaurus containing over 6,300 terms. Full text content available in GLBT Life with Full Text includes- The Advocate,
- Gay Parent Magazine,
- Girlfriends,
- GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies,
- James White Review,
- ISNA News,
- Ladder,
- Lesbian Tide,
- New York Blade,
- ONE,
- Tangents,
- Washington Blade,
- and many more.
- Bibliography of Native North Americans
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal and medical researchers, linguists, theologians, ethnobotanists, and policy makers. BNNA will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions, struggles, and issues surrounding North America’s indigenous peoples. - Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective 1907 – 1984
- Book Review Digest Retrospective 1905 – 1982
- Books @ Ovid
Sixty-three titles, primarily addressing NURSING. Can browse by the above link or by can search by specific title. - PsycBooks
Includes the Encyclopedia of Psychology
