Tag: ERF Updates
ERF Update – October 2011
Current number or records in ERF: 1062
ADDED since last update:
- Index to Jewish Periodicals: on the EBSCOhost platform
- Lieberman Talmud Text: digitized collection of all primary witnesses to the Babylonian Talmud
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt: Egyptology, papyrology, and more
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: from the pre-Columbian era to the postcolonial period
- Parker Library on the Web: digitized manuscripts from Corpus Christi’s Parker Library
- ProQuest Legislative Insight: Laws R Us
- Trew Letter Collection: letters collected by Christoph Jacob Trew, a well-connected physician and potanist
- Wiley Major Reference (MRW) series: several new entries in the ERF, mostly in Chemistry and Psychology
DELETED since last update
- Chemfinder.com
CHANGES since last update:
- New URL for Bibliography of Asian Studies
- New URL for International Tables for Crystallography
- World Telecommunication Indicators is now World Telecommunication/ICT indicators database
ERF Update – August 2011
Current number of records in ERF: 1046
ADDED since last update:
- 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers: historical newspapers from England, Ireland, Scotland and the colonies
- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers: cover-to-cover including articles, illustrations and advertisements
- AREAER Database: annual report on exchange and trade arrangements for all 186 IMF member countries
- Bibliography of Slavery and World Slavery: index to scholarly works on slavery published since 1900
- Brockelmann online: classic reference work on the Islamic World and the Middle East
- California Language Archive: catalog of indigenous language of California and the West
- Encyclopedia of American Studies: From Abolitionism to Military-Industrial Complex to Youth Culture
- Global Missions and Theology: documents on U.S. missionary activity
- SimplyMap: Maps + data!
- Teachers College Record Book Reviews: book reviews in education
- Thomson ONE: platform for company financial data. Replaces Investext and VentureXpert
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: primary sources on the African slave trade
- Voltaire electronique: complete works
- World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean: documents new and old
DELETED since last update
- A-V Online (cancelled)
- Bibliographic Index Plus (cancelled)
- Commodity Price Statistics (discontinued)
- Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) (cancelled)
CHANGES since last update
- Communication Abstracts: now available on EBSCOhost platform
- RISM: Repertoire International des Source Musicales: now available for free
ERF Update – November 2010
Current number of records in the ERF: 1009
Added since last update
- Africa Journal Archive: full-text runs of journals published in Africa
- Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin: find a gig at an archaeological excavation
- Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance: Full text of treatises on art and architecture published from 1470 to 1775
- Corpus des oeuvres de philosophie en langue francaise: French philosophy from the Renaissance to 1966. In full text.
- Dictionary of Old English: A to G Online: More ye olde English (through the letter “G”)
- Duxiu Knowledge Search Database: Books, journals, etc. In full text. In Chinese.
- Encyclopedia of Insects: More than you want to know about bedbugs
- Encyclopedia of Journalism: From “Bias” to “Mass Media, decline of,” to “Spin”
- English Drama: Full-text plays. (Old subscription, new ERF record)
- HathiTrust: The elephant in the room: millions of scanned books.
- Natural Standard: Evidence-based, alternative therapies
- New York Historical Society: Manuscript Collection Related to Slavery: Primary sources
- Nordic Africa Institute Publications: Scandinavian, open access repository of articles and other research reports
- Oxford Handbooks Online – Philosophy: From “Aesthetics” to “Skepticism”
- Oyez Project: All things Supreme Court
- SBRNet (Sports Business Research Network): Average expenditure for sports logo apparel spent by those who attended at least four major league baseball games in 2009: $195.2
- South Asian Newspapers (from the World Newspaper Archive): Digitized newspapers from the subcontinent
- Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science (Collections 1, 2, 3, 4): lectures in computer science
- TableBase: Contains many of the tables often missing from text-based news databases.
- USGS Publications Warehouse: Gov pubs from US Geological Survey
Deleted since last update
- STAT-USA: databases ceased operation as of October 1
Changes since last update
- OECD iLibrary: has a new iName (used to be Source OECD)
ERF Update – December 2010
Current number of records in the ERF: 1014
ADDED since last update
- Base de Francais Medieval: Old and Middle French texts
- CEIC Global: it’s back … global economic data
- Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics: from “Adaptive Wavelet Techniques” to “Vortex Methods”
- Energy Central Professional: the latest news from all the energy sectors
- European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750: what Europe had to say about the Americas
- Gartner: data on the information technology industry
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CHANGES since last update
- Alternative Press Index: now available on the EBSCOhost platform
ERF Update – February 2011
Current number of records in the ERF: 1027
ADDED since last update
- American West: primary sources, from the Gold Rush to westward expansion to Chief Joseph
- AnthroHub: digital archvie of UC anthropology publications
- ASTM Digital Library: handbooks from the American Society for Testing and Materials
- ASTM Standards: standards covering metals, petroleum, construction and more.
- Electronic Englightenment: primary sources on the Age of Reason
- Endangered Languages Database: online portal from the World Oral Literature Project
- International Bibliography of Art: successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
- Kurschners deutscher Gelehrten-Kalendar: directory of scholars in German-speaking countries
- NetAdvantage: company profiles
- PRS Group Country Data: political risk data including bureaucracy, corruption, poverty and inflation
- Routledge Politics and International Relations Online: encyclopedias and manuals, from the African Union to the World Trade Organization
- TRACES: bibliography of Catalan language and literature
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CHANGES since last update
- Bibliography of History of Art (BHA) has a new description
ERF Update – April 2010
Every month, the manager of the Electronic Resources Finder (ERF) sends out an update of new and deleted ERF resources. From now on, we’ll also be making a post in the Collections blog so that the information is archived. (No more searching though your email files to try and figure out whatever happened to, say, Books in Print or Encyclopedia Britannica.)
Current number of records in the ERF: 964
ADDED since last update:
- California Digital Newspaper Collection (free resource, covers 1849-1911)
- Database of Latin Dictionaries (courtesy of the Robbins Collection)
- Emerald Library and Information Studies Collection (Good bye Emerald Xtra 175, Hello 17 library and information studies journals)
- Encyclopedia of American Religions (one of several GRLV-Gale Virtual Reference Library titles that have been added to the ERF.)
- Encyclopedia of Epidemiology (a GRLV title)
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America (a GRLV title)
- IBIS World Industry Market Research (industry data)
- International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (a GRLV title)
- Latin America Advisor (online news service)
- New Catholic Encyclopedia (a GRLV title)
- Papal Letters (full text collections, courtesy of the Robbins Collection)
DELETED since last update
- Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (no longer free)
CHANGES since last update
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA): new URL, new platform
ERF Update – June 2010
If you ever want to know what’s been added to the Electronic Resources Finder recently, you can always click on the What’s New link in the sidebar.
– Margaret
Current number of resources in the ERF: 971
ADDED since last update:
- African Development Indicators (ADI): data from the World Bank
- Complete Database for Japanese Magazine and Periodicals from the Meiji Era to the Present
- Education Research Abstracts: no article left behind
- Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980: primary source material from UK national archives
- Global Development Finance (GDF): data from the World Bank (developing nations)
- Global Economic Monitor (GEM): data from the World Bank (industrialized nations)
- Local Market Audience Analyst: do college-educated men between the ages of 25-34 are in the greater Bay Area play tennis, use Macs, and drink premium liquor?
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery: primary sources
- Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) Digital Library: digitized images of canonical collections and other Tibetan literature
- World Development Indicators (WDI): data, data and more data from the World Bank
DELETED since last update
- InfoTech Trends (ceased publication)
CHANGES since last update
- Annual Egyptological Bibliography is now Online Egyptological Bibliography
ERF Update – August 2010
Current number of records in the ERF: 985
ADDED since the last update:
- 19th Century British Newspapers: Charles Dicken’s England (plus Scotland, Ireland and Wales)
- APA e-book collection: 84 books from the American Psychological Association
- Climatewire: “The politics and business of climate change”
- Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Collection: ebooks in the life sciences
- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography: from Albert of Saxony to Karl Ziegler
- Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945: British government files from the war years
- Ethnographic Video Online: films and footage on human culture
- Financial Times Online Archive: that familiar salmon-colored business daily going back to 1888
- Otzar HaHochma: Hebrew language texts
- Oxford Handbooks Online: Business and Management: how to get ahead in business
- Pravda Digital Archive: all the (Soviet and Post-Soviet) news that’s fit to print
- PsycCritiques: book reviews from the American Psychological Association
- Uniworld Online: directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries and Foreign Firms Operating in the United States
- VentureXpert: looking for an investment opportunity?
- YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe: free encyclopedia from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
DELETED since last update
- Landolt-Bornstein: Numerical Data in Science and Technology (no longer subscribe)
CHANGES since last update
- Pennsylvania Gazette is now Accessible Archives
- IBZ Online: new URL
- RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals and Online Archive: now in a new interface that includes full text
- Short Story Index + Short Story Index Retrospective: now going back to 1914
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