Archive for the ‘News & General’ Category

Choice Reviews Online

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Choice Reviews Online

Choice Reviews Online provides access to 145,000 Choice reviews, as well as all editorial content from recent issues of Choice.   Online exclusives section contains content that is not included in the magazine. – Publisher’s blurb.

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ALA Guide to Reference

Monday, June 29th, 2009

ALA Guide to Reference

The American Library Association’s Guide to Reference is an essential subscription database for reference librarians, researchers and other library users.  The online Guide includes more than 16,000 trusted go-to sources and offers guidance in the form of introductory essays and annotations for entries. With its searchable, browsable, internally and externally linked database, the Guide facilitates the kinds of reference, teaching, collection development, and bibliographic work its predecessors have supported. – Publisher’s blurb.

Small Press Review

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Small Press Review

The Small Press Review is a magazine with review columns, information and helpful hints on getting published. Published bi-monthly, it contains up-to-date and late-breaking news on the small press and small magazine industry. – Publisher’s blurb.

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

The Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship addresses evolving work-related processes and procedure, current research, and the latest news on topics related to electronic resources and the digital environment’s impact on collecting, acquiring, and making accessible library materials. The journal provides opinion pieces, the latest news, book reviews, conference presentations, and e-resources related updates. – Publisher’s blurb.

Also includes access to the earlier title The Acquisitions Librarian.

World Newspaper Archive

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

World Newspaper Archive

The World Newspaper Archive is a collection of historical newspapers from around the world. Begins with Latin American newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Forthcoming are African, European, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Southeast Asian newspapers. Can be cross-searched with collection: America’s historical newspapers.

The World Newspaper Archive Latin American collection will be a rolling release, with completion of the c. 900,000 pages scheduled for Fall 2009.   Approximately 70,000 pages are expected to be processed monthly, with periodic releases of new titles.

Social Explorer

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Social Explorer

Social Explorer aims to facilitate demographic and social scientific research in a variety of contexts—in the classroom (in history, science, sociology, geography, political science, and other subjects), in academic research, in market research, and more. Subscription users have access to professional-grade research and mapping tools that fit a variety of needs, as well as technical support and access to new data and features as they become available.

Our primary functions include Demographic Data Analysis, Interactive Map/Report Design and Software Development.  Our main goal is to visually display the demographic change that has occurred in the U.S. since 1790 through the present, for the country over all down to the level of the county. For more recent years, one can display areas as small as your own neighborhood. Certain cities may even be displayed as far back as 1910. To do this we have developed a collection of interactive demographic maps that can be viewed, queried and manipulated on our site. – Publisher’s blurb.

Library Press Display

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Library Press Display

Online access to over 200 newspapers from more than 55 countries, displayed in their original format and accessible by country, language, or title.

Public Services Quarterly

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Public Services Quarterly

Public Services Quarterly examines traditional and nontraditional areas of public service in academic libraries. Combining research findings and case studies with authoritative articles, the journal tracks the changing patterns in organizational and managerial structures to present new initiatives for expanding and improving library services.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974 – 1996

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974 – 1996

Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications.

Translated into English from more than 50 languages – from Arabic to Swahili – these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary.

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press now complete

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

The digitization of The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (CDPSP) Digital Archive is now complete.  With content never before available online, the digital archive illuminates key historical events and provides rich resources for researching the Cold War era from the Soviet perspective, when the government, culture, and peoples of the Soviet Union were almost totally inaccessible to the outside world. beginnings of the Cold War through the emergence of Rus in the new balance Encompassing the entire run of The Current Digest of the Soviet/Post-Soviet Press, this massive English-language resource provides more than 70,000 articles of Soviet and Russian news and commentary, from 1949 to the present.