Tag: ERF Updates

Current number of records in the ERF: 1081

ADDED since last update

• Peel’s Prairie Provinces: resources to study the Canadian prairies
• Rand State Statistics: population, business, socioeconomic stats and more

DELETED since last update

• Directory of History Journals
• History Cooperative
• Latin American Studies (CD Rom)
• Multidata Online (subscription cancelled)
• Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers (CD Rom)
• TLS, the Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (old interface discontinued)
• Treasures from the Film Archives (now searchable via FIAF)
• World Trade Analyzer (CD Rom)

• Subject: British Studies

CHANGES since last update

• AIAA Electronic Library: new URL
• Brill’s New Pauly name change (formerly New Pauly Online)
• SAE Digital Library now includes technical papers and standards
• UC Shared Images: Luna Imaging Collectons name change (formerly DSC Image Service Collections)

Current number of records in the ERF: 1100

ADDED since last update

• Dictionary of Literary Biography: authors, and more authors
• Embase: indexes thousands of medical and health sciences journals including many not covered by Medline
• Literature Resources from Gale: Search LitFinder, Literature Resource Center, Scribner’s and Twayne’s Author Series all at once
• Material ConneXion: 7,000 new materials for architecture, engineering, and other design disciplines

DELETED since last update

• Scribners and Twaynes Author Series are now searchable by Literature Resources from Gale (see above)

CHANGES since last update

• American Factfinder has an updated URL
• California Ethnic Press is now New American Media
• LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index is now Government Periodicals Index (and has a new ProQuest URL)
• Oxford Bibliographies Online now include an Anthropology module
• Oxford Reference Online modules have new URLs to go with a new interface
• ProQuest Statistical Insight and ProQuest Legislative Insight have new URLs

Current number of records in the ERF: 1097

ADDED since last update

• GeoData@UC Berkeley: The Library’s geoportal to geospacial data
• Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia: did you know it’s pronounced kind of like “chimmix”?
• Old Maps Online: a gateway to, well, old maps online
• Oxford Textbook of Medicine: handbook of internal medicine and its subspecialties
• SNL Real Estate: news on the global real estate industry
• Vetus Latina Database (VLD): index to really old version of the Bible

DELETED since last update

• Comprehensive Composite Materials (no longer subscribe)

CHANGES since last update

• ASCE Online Research Library is now ASCE Library
• CE Database is now Civil Engineering Database (CEDB)
• CSA/Illumina Social Sciences is now ProQuest Social Sciences

Current number of records in the ERF: 1085

ADDED since last update

• American Periodicals: popular magazines from 1740-1940
• AmericasBarometer: public opinion analysis from Latin America
• COS Funding Opportunities: directory of funds, fellowships, grants and awards
• Encyclopedia Islamica: comprehensive refrence source on Islam and the Muslim world
• Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Literature: from “Address, terms of” to “Za’id”
• Eurobarometer Surveys: public opinion and issues in the European Union
• Odum Archive Dataverse: repository of all Louis Harris public opinion data

• Did you know? Users can enter the terms “public opinon polls” in the Electronic resources: locate by title search box and find serveral good public opinion and polling resources.

DELETED since last update

• Dissertations and Theses @ University of California (incorporated into the entry for Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts))
• Information Research Watch International (IRWI) (cancelled)

CHANGES since last update

• all CSA/Illumina databases now on the new ProQuest platform
• all ProQuest databases now on the new ProQuest platform

Current number of records in the ERF: 1079

ADDED since last update:

• ISLA Information Services Latin America: Summaries of US and British media coverage of Latin American and the Caribbean
• Social Explorer: premium (subscription) access to current and historical census data
• State Stats: government data on all 50 states
• Visionet: index to literature in optometry and vision science

DELETED since last update:

• NYPL Dance Collection Catalog (no longer available)

CHANGES since last upate:

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Current number of records in ERF: 1076

ADDED since last update

• B.A.S.I.L.E. (Base international de Litterature Electronique): A thousand French prose texts
• Encyclopedie Larousse: Online French encyclopedia
• European Library: holdings, maps, photographs, etc. of digitized holdings from 48 national libraries in Europe
• Grand Corpus des grammaires francaise: French grammar texts
• Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL): German encylopedia of world literatures
• Larousse Dictionaries: 21 dictionaries including the Dictionnaire Francais
• SCIRUS ETD Search: Union catalog/portal of more than 1 million records of electronic theses and dissertations from around the world
• Vogue Archive: entire run of storied fashion magazine from 1892 to the present (includes ads, pictures and more)

DELETED since last update

• Pro and Con (cancelled)

CHANGES since last update

• AP Multimedia archive is now called AP Images

 

Current number of records in ERF: 1068

ADDED since last update

• Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia: The Arctic to the Great Plains and more
• Benezit Dictionary of Artists: 190,000 artists from antiquity to now
• Le Monde diplomatique: Archive of influential French monthly, 1954 to present; English edition, 1996 to present (six month moving wall)
• Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest: From Fats Domino to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament to Mary Quant

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CHANGES since last update

• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers now covers the 18th century and the 20th century (in addition to the 19th century)

These HW Wilson databases are now available on the EBSCOhost interface:

• Art Full Text
• Art Index Retrospective
• Biography Reference Bank
• Book Review Digest Plus
• Book Review Digest Retrospective
• Education Full Text (plus Education Index Retrospective)
• Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective
• Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
• Index to Legal Periodicals and Books/Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Retrospective
• Library Literature and Information Full Text
• Play Index
• Readers’ Guide Retrospective
• Short Story Index (plus Short Story Index Retrospective)

De Gruyter databases have new URLs:

• AIDA online
• IBR Online – Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen
• IBZ – Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur

New URL for:

• Hoover’s Online

Current number of records in ERF: 1064

ADDED since last update:

• Die Flugschriften des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Staats und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg: pamphlets from the State and City Library of Ausburg
• Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts) Full Text: we now have access to the full-text of most dissertations added since 1997.
• Latin American Newspapers, Series 2: more Latin American newspapers from the World Newspaper Archive.

DELETED since last upate:

• Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies (subscription cancelled)
• University of Michigan Documents Center (site not maintained)
• Moving Image Collection (MIC) (RIP)

 

Current number of records in ERF: 1066

ADDED since last update

• Ancestry Library: It’s not just for geneaology anymore. Contains census data, birth and death records, immigration records, trans-ocean ship records and much, much more.
• Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World: published in conjunction with the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University
• REHABDATA: citations from the National Rehabilitation Information Center
• Scribner Writers Online: biographical information on writers (American, British and more)
• SIAM e-Books: 400 e-books from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
• Twaynes Authors Online: introductory-level criticism on major authors