New E-Resources at Northwestern

Black Drama

Black Drama, now in it’s second edition, has been significantly expanded.   The Second Edition contains the full text of 1,310 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection of black drama, is the project’s editorial advisor. More than a quarter of the collection will consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Alice Childress, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.

Oxford Art Online

Grove Art Online has now become the cornerstone of Oxford’s online art reference collection, Oxford Art Online.  This launch represents a long-anticipated upgrade in site functionality and graphic design. With this new release, the searchability and presentation of Grove art content has been significantly improved.

Oxford Art Online also includes access to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.

Oxford Music Online

Grove Music Online has now become the cornerstone of Oxford’s online music reference collection, Oxford Music Online. Over the past few years, Grove Music Online has undergone extensive technical work to improve functionality and to create a site that meets the highest possible accessibility standards.

Oxford Music Online also includes two of Oxford’s outstanding single volume reference works on music: The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition Revised. Searched independently or together with Grove, these will offer a new short reference dimension to Grove’s extensive coverage.

African American Music Reference

African American Music Reference will bring together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Advanced Dynamic-system Simulation

This cutting-edge text presents the latest techniques in advanced simulation programming for interactive modeling and simulation of dynamic systems, such as aerospace vehicles, control systems, and biological systems.

Applied Cryptanalysis : Breaking Ciphers in the Real World

This book is designed to be accessible to motivated IT professionals who want to learn more about the specific attacks covered. In particular, every effort has been made to keep the chapters independent, so if someone is interested in has function cryptanalysis or RSA timing attacks, they do not necessarily need to study all of the previous material in the text.

Bioinformatics for Geneticists

This timely book illustrates the value of bioinformatics, not simply as a set of tools but rather as a science increasingly essential to navigate and manage the host of information generated by genomics and the availability of completely sequenced genomes.

Chemical Engineering : Modelling, Simulation and Similitude

A description of the use of computer aided modeling and simulation in the development, integration and optimization of industrial processes. The two authors elucidate the entire procedure step-by-step, from basic mathematical modeling to result interpretation and full-scale process performance analysis.

Chemistry of the Cyclopropyl Group

Volume one of the series The Chemistry of Functional Groups , a series of advanced treatises under the general editorship of Professor Saul Patai.

Caribbean Literature

Caribbean Literature is a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of classic, rare, and contemporary literature. The database currently has over 26,000 pages.