Tag: e-resources
ERF Update – September 2010
Current number of records in the ERF: 990
ADDED since last update:
- AMA Manual of Style: for authors and editors of medical writing
- American Presidencey Project: major publications from POTUS
- Bibliography of British and Irish History: newest Brepols database
- Black Drama, 2nd edition: full-text plays from Alexander Street Press (complements Black Drama, 1st edition)
- COTAR: articles on Jewish law
- Dictionary of Old English: Web Corpus: ye olde English, in full text.
- Literature Criticism Online: Gale literary criticism sets (TCLC, CLC, SSC, etc. ) now online. (Can you say “shelf space”?)
- SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online: think eScholarship for Latin America
DELETED since last update:
- CEIC Global: subscription cancelled
- Dance on Disc
- Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (via Britannica online): subscription cancelled
- Oxford Scholarship Online – Philosophy: separate entry deleted; now listed under Oxford Scholarship Online
CHANGES since last update:
- LexisNexis Statistical has updated URL
ERF Update – March 2011
Current number of records in the ERF: 1039
ADDED since last update
- AIDA Online: index to Italian scholarly journals
- ASTM Standards: mettals, petroleum, construction, the environment, and more
- China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CSYD): census, survey data and other numbers. In Chinese.
- CINDAS Aerospace Structural Metals Database (ASMD), Damage Tolerant Design Handbook (DTDH) and Structural Alloys Handbook (SAH): more standards (we now subscribe to the complete CINDAS materials property database)
- Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences: Collection 1: Colloquia covering cell and mollecular biology and biomedicine, including the neurosciences
- CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals): Inex to Canadian journals and more
- DaSinD Online: biographical info on German women
- Digital Atlas of Economic Plants and Digital Seed Atlas of the Netherlands: identify seeds, fruits, roots, tupers, bulbes, stem fragments, leaves, flowers, buds and resins.
- Ergonomics Abstracts: abstracts on all things ergonomic
- Gale Directory Library (GDL): Find organizations, people and research centers
- Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gateway to all those Gale encyclopedias
- Hebrew Printing in India: early writings of the Jews of South Asia
- Reaxys: chemical information database
- Sibu Congkan: historical monographs from China
- World Banking Abstracts: index to banking and finance publications
DELETED since last update
- CrossFire Beilstein and CrossFire Gmelin (replaced by Reaxys)
- Women Writers Project (cancelled)
- Faculty of 1000 Medicine (merged with Faculty of 1000)
CHANGES since last update
- Essay and General Literature Index now includes the retrospective file going back to 1900
- Faculty of 1000 now covers F1000Biology, F1000Medicine and The Scientist
- LexisNexis Statistical Datasets is now ProQuest Statistical Datasets
- LexisNexis Statistical is now ProQuest Statistical Insight
ERF Update – May 2011
Current number of records in ERF: 1037
ADDED since last update
- Bibliografia Mesoamericana: art, archaeology, ethnography, etc. of Mesoamerica
- Blackwell Companion to Phonology: major reference work in phonology
- Book Review Index: going back to 1965
- Encyclopedia of Archaeology: from archaeoparisitology to ziggurats
- eScholarship: UC Archaeological Research Facilility (ARF): includes field and laboratory reports
- Frost and Sullivan: market research from industries such as aerospace, tranportation, energy, healthcare, and more.
- Library Information Portal: German-language reference books
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, Criminology, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Reformation, Victorian Literature
- Oxford Reference Online: modules added for Computing, Mythology and Folklore, and Prehistory
DELETED since last update
- CiteSeer (replaced by CiteSeerX)
- Acronym and Abbreviation Server
- Classic 164 Currency Converter
- Headlinespot.com
- Berkeley Public Library Catalog
- Oakland Public Library
- SFPL Online
- Google Image Search
- Google Maps
CHANGES since last update
- TRIS Online is now TRID Database