New E-Resources at Northwestern

Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent

The Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent provides numerous entries containing research findings on giftedness and creativity and their applications in education, training, science and the arts, athletics, and everyday life. Covers topics such as ability grouping, achievement and aptitude testing, emotional intelligence, gender differences, genius, intelligence testing, learning styles, minority gifted education, multiple intelligences, musical ability, Olympic athletes and thinking skills. – Publisher’s blurb.

Northwestern University Library now has access to 80 Sage reference handbooks.  Access is via the Library’s catalog NUcat or from the following list.

Encyclopedia of Human Rights

The online version of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Human Rights, edited by David Forsythe, offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history in over 300 entries signed by leading scholars and human rights experts. The coverage includes major figures, organizations and institutions, human rights events and crises, and human rights norms. – Publisher’s blurb.

Web of Science

Northwestern University now has expanded access to portion of Web of Science.   The Science Citation Index has now been expanded to include coverage from 1945-154 (bringing coverage to 1945 to the present).  The coverage of the Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science has been expanded to include backfiles for 1990-2000.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection

Northwestern University Library now has access to all journal titles in the JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI collection.  The collection currently has 67 titles, with many more to come.   Subject coverage for this collection is in disciplines across the social sciences, with clusters focused in economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.

The titles currently accessible are listed below.  Coverage information is available via JSTOR.

Individual title access is available through the Library’s ER and will shortly be in NUcat.

Durkheimian Studies

Durkheimian Studies / Études Durkheimiennes is the scholarly journal of the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies. It is concerned with all aspects of the work of Durkheim and his group, such as Marcel Mauss and Robert Hertz, and with the contemporary development and application of their ideas to issues in the social sciences, religion and philosophy. – Publisher’s blurb.

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

Includes numerous articles covering topics within the social and behavioral sciences. Describes the state of the art in all the fields encompassed within these sciences. – Publisher’s blurb.

Design and Culture

Design & Culture is the official journal of the Design Studies Forum.  Even as recognition of its social, economic and cultural force grows, however, the design field’s largely unseen ‘edges’ are increasingly becoming its driving forces.  Design & Culture examines these developments, looking for rigorous and innovative critical frameworks to explore ‘design’ as a cultural phenomenon today. – Publisher’s blurb.

Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development

Examines three key life stages from a sociological perspective, exploring how enduring experiences, as well as transitions and events such as childcare, education, stress, marriage, career, addiction, friendship, parenthood, disease, spirituality, and retirement influence the individual’s life course. The life stages examined are: Childhood and Adolescence; Adulthood; and Later Life. -  Publisher’s blurb.

Sociologia Internationalis

Sociologia Internationalis is an “International journal for sociology and social psychology.”  Articles are published in English, French, German, or Spanish, with summaries in English.

Access to this resource is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.