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JSTOR has created Facebook group and Search Application, and has posted video tutorials on YouTube. Now you can add JSTOR to your Facebook profile and search the database for full-text articles. See JSTOR News for more information.
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- CQ Researcher Blog's mission is to open the CQ Researcher up to be more participatory. What topics should we cover in the coming months? What’s your opinion on the latest pro/con question? What ideas do you have for making the Researcher better? We will share some of the behind-the-scenes, sausage-making that goes into the CQ Researcher. And we will blog about how a current news story or an issue in library land remind of a long lost Researcher report."
- CQ Weekly published Democratic State of the States 2008 in August.
Check out Latest Congressional Votes.
- CQ Researcher's latest feature: Rise in Counterinsurgency - Will new tactics weaken the military?" By Peter Katel, a veteran journalist who previously served as Latin America bureau chief for Time magazine, in Mexico City, and as a Miami-based correspondent for Newsweek and The Miami Herald's El Nuevo Herald.
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CQ Researcher Global, provides students with definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Latest report: Crisis in Darfur - Is there any hope for peace? by Karen Foerstel, a freelance writer who has worked for the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report and Daily Monitor, and has published two books on women in Congress, Climbing the Hill: Gender Conflict in Congress and The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Congress.
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Project MUSE launches new web interface; enhanced features aid discovery and navigation. A highlight of MUSE’s new web site is wider range of functionality at the individual journal article level, including the ability to email a link, find more articles from the same author(s), and share the article via popular social bookmarking services.
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The latest quarterly update to OED Online is now available at www.oed.com. We also unveil a new design to the site - "keeping the features that we know our users love, making them better and giving a fresh new look to the site."
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The Naxos Music Library expands with 30 more labels (August 2008)
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New Interface coming in early September:
- Microsoft Silverlight player combines various elements to create a unique, cross-platform, easy way to stream music!
- An actual home page has been created to present the most recent album additions, featured new additions, and Naxos news updates.
- Links to major pages of the site have now been logically grouped as a main menu on the header section of each page. Likewise, the keyword search feature has now been made available to almost all the pages of NML 2.0.
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“This latest release sees the addition of fifteen new titles to Literature Online's library of full-text journals. Eleven of these titles come from Cambridge University Press's distinguished and highly-regarded journal title list, including; Anglo-Saxon England, English Language and Linguistics,English Today, Journal of American Studies, Journal of Linguistics, Language in Society, Language Variation and Change, New Theatre Quarterly (NTQ), Victorian Literature and Culture, Theatre Survey and Theatre Research International.
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Browse Full-text Titles
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EBSCOhost 2.0 is live and they have introduced the following new features to the site.
- A new simpler basic searching screen
- The ability to preview an article or image by mouseover
- New result list
- New detail display
- New search history capability
- Enhanced personalization features
- New organization of limiters and expanders
- New search modes including SmartText
- URLs that can be bookmarked
- Philosophers Index is now available via the EBSCOhost interface.
Visit EBSCOhost 2.0 Support website for more information regarding new features, user guides, and training schedules.
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New Online Products & Trials
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LGBT Life with Full-Text is "the definitive index to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues." This database contains indexing and abstracts for 180+ LGBT-specific core periodicals and 310+ LGBT-specific core books and reference works; full text for 100+ significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as 110+ full-text monographs/books including Classics in Lesbian Studies, Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, Handbook of Research with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Populations, and Queer Theory & Social Change.
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Gender Studies Database combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship.
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Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera presents the dramatic imagery of nineteenth-century Americana as experienced from the social, military, and political perspectives. At completion, the collection will present 75,000 images drawn from archives around the country, documenting the camp and battle experiences of Union and Confederate soldiers of all ranks, time spent in hospitals and in prisons, civilian life in cities and towns close to and far from the front lines of war, and the demeanor of the politicians whose decisions could bring the nation together or tear it apart.
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BuildingGreen.com is the Web-based resource that provides
comprehensive, fully researched sustainable design strategies and
green products reviews, with access to building news and current articles; environmentally preferable building products with descriptions, manufacturer information; case studies; and bibliographic information. For a basic overview
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Dance in Video will contain 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. More info
Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. More info
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 279 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.More info
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Ulrichsweb.com is the "authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of
all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications,
peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world." Sign up for free Ulrich's Alerts!
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set provides access to reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately
13,800 bound volumes. Also includes access to American State Papers, 1789-1838 and Serial Set Maps
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Environment Complete offers coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. More info
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ProQuest's Black Newspapers - a collection of significant African American newspapers from the United States including Afro - American Red Star, Call & Post, Chicago Defender, Houston Post, Michigan Chronicle, Muslim Journal, New Journal & Guide, New York Amsterdam News, and the Sentinel
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Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
(EQ) combines alphabetically- arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'an. It is a dictionary of Qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names and cultural history, extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within Qur'anic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'an to appear in a Western language. The online database contains the complete articles of the printed volumes 1 to 5.
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Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures -
A unique collaboration of over 1000 scholars from around the
world, the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures crosses
history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a ground-
breaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender
studies and the Islamic world. Coverage includes religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.
The online edition currently covers Volumes 1-5, with new
volumes added upon publication.
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Digital National Security Archive -
Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, DNSA is the most
comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents
central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945....Learn More
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GreenFILE
offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.
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Brill’s New Pauly Online has become a recognized standard reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world. Now, the complete original Der Neue Pauly together with Brill’s New Pauly are offered online. New Pauly Online will allow the researcher to have the most complete database available. Automatically updated whenever a new volume is published, New Pauly Online provides the following features: - Fully searchable - Fully cross-referenced - Allows for Basic and Advanced Searches - Browsable Alphabetical index in both German and English - Includes all maps and illustrations
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Cengage/Gale's Nursing and Allied Health Collection includes all aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration.
With 400+ titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing- focused curriculum.
Articles from journals covering topics related to nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
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