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Collection Services Annual Report 2012-2013: New Databases 2012-2013
New Databases for 2012-2013
In 2012-2013 Furman University Library added eight databases. Overall Furman provides users with 211 databases accessed through our All Databases LibGuide. Fourty-eight of those databases are provided by DISCUS (Digital Information for South Carolina USers) and 27 are provided by PASCAL (the Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries).
New Databases 2012-2013
The Furman University Library added the databases below to our collection in 2012-2013. Additional databases, listed below, were considered for purchase.
- Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969The documents of Confidential Print: Latin America cover the whole of South and Central America, plus the non-British islands of the Caribbean, from just after the final Spanish withdrawal from mainland America in the 1820s to the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. Covering revolutions, territorial changes and political movements, foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development (including the building of the Panama Canal), wars, slavery, immigration from Europe and relations with indigenous peoples, among other topics, the files in this title form a vital resource for any scholar of Latin American history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- CQ AlmanacThe CQ Almanac offers coverage and analysis of U.S. congressional legislation from 1945 to today. CQ Almanac includes analysis of the path legislation takes through Congress, including how bills are changed, derailed, or ultimately passed during an annual session of Congress.
This resource is now available through our All Databases Page - https://libguides.furman.edu/alldatabases - Gale/DISCUS Academic PackageGale is offering a special package of resources to South Carolina academic libraries including, but not limited to:
• Academic OneFile
• Books & Authors
• Business & Company Resource Center
• Custom Newspapers
• Educator's Reference Complete
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Health & Wellness Resource Center
• Science In Context
• Small Business Resource Center
• US History In Context
• World History In Context
This resource is now available through our All Databases Page - https://libguides.furman.edu/alldatabases - JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI Archive CollectionJSTOR is a scholarly journal archive which provides full image access to articles from over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and unrelated titles. JSTOR goes back to the very first issue of each journal (many of them in the 19th Century), but does not include the most recent five years.
- Medici.tvMedici.tv offers over 1000 programs available on streaming VOD; the majority of films are accessible in high quality (HD). This resource includes filmed concerts by current performers in classical music and documentaries on performers and composers. In addition, the catalogue offers numerous educational programs and master classes. This resource is now available through our All Databases Page - http://libguides.furman.edu/alldatabases
- RISM Series A/II :Music Manuscripts after 1600RISM - Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts containing more than 657,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries.
This resource is now available through our All Databases Page - https://libguides.furman.edu/alldatabases - SAGE KnowledgeSAGE Knowledge is a social sciences digital library created for students, researchers, and faculty. Incorporating more than 2,500 titles, it includes SAGE eBook and eReference content, containing scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more.
This resource is now available through our All Databases Page - https://libguides.furman.edu/alldatabases - World News ConnectionWorld News Connection translates and delivers information from Beijing, Beirut, Bogota, Cairo, Jakarta, Iraq, Mogadishu, Qatar, Ramallah, Sarajevo, Vienna, and hundreds of other datelines every day. Iincludes articles going back to 2003 with over 300 sources—from Al-Jazirah to Der Spiegel and Radio France Internationale.
Database Trials 2012-2013
- AnthroSourceAnthroSource is a service of the American Anthropological Association offering full-text anthropological resources from the breadth and depth of the discipline. AnthroSource contains past, present, and future AAA publications with more than 250,000 articles from AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs.
This trial was available from September 25-October 27, 2012.
Please provide feedback on this trial using the form below or by calling 864-294-2263. - APA Handbook of Behavioral Analysis (APA PsycNET Platform)Building on the inductive translational approach to the science of behavior analysis, this 2-volume handbook reviews contemporary laboratory research in behavior analysis. Appropriate for students, researchers, and clinicians, it affords the reader coverage of the logic, clinical utility, and methods of single-case research designs, and the design, data collection, and data analysis phases. It also includes chapters devoted to a particular behavioral/developmental disorder or to behavior of societal importance, with each providing a review of what works and where additional research is needed.
This trial will be available from October 25 - November 24. - ApabiUpdated daily, Apabi provides the full text of 355 Chinese newspapers (more than 80% of China’s newspaper sources) covering government, industry-specific, regional, national, and other publications. Newspaper content is displayed in its original format, images and text and users may read online, download to your computer, or produce page prints.
Advanced searching functions support multiple fields and conditions. Search by newspaper, columns, articles, pictures, etc.
This was available until March 26, 2013 - Cochrane LibraryA medical and health care database the Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration. This database includes the following collections: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; Cochrane Methodology Register; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects; Health Technology Assessment Database; NHS Economic Evaluation Database; About The Cochrane Collaboration.
This trial was available until March 31, 2013
- Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966PLEASE NOTE: download options are not available during trials.]The Confidential Print series, issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices since around 1820, is one of the fundamental building blocks for research that should be possessed by any academic library and one of the most important series produced by the British Government.
Spanning the full era of the modern European colonisation of Africa, from the occupation of Algeria by France, through increasing British presence on the west African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope in the south, the Berlin Conference which set off the ‘Scramble for Africa’, the high-water mark of economic exploitation of Africans in the Congo Free State, rivalries amongst European powers and the era of withdrawal that followed the Second World War, Confidential Print: Africa is a fundamental resource for academics, students and researchers studying modern Africa and its recent history. This trial was available November 12- December 10.
- Encyclopedia of Religion in AmericaEncyclopedia of Religion in America examines how religious history and practices are woven into the political, social, cultural, and historical landscape of North America. This four-volume reference work explains the origins, development, adaptation, influence, and interrelations of the many faiths practiced, including major world religions, new religious sects, cults, and religious movements that originated or had an influence in the United States.
This trial was available until January 9, 2013. - Food Science SourceThis database offers more than 1,000 key food industry and market reports, as well as tens of thousands of additional food industry articles, benchmarks and best practices, selected from thousands of trade and industry publications. This source includes full text with images, tables, charts, and other graphical content from many key titles.
This trial will be available until April 8, 2013. - FSTA - Food Science and Technology AbstractsFSTA covers topics relating to every aspect of the food chain including all the major food commodities plus biotechnology, microbiology, food safety, additives, nutrition, packaging and pet foods. The database includes material from over 4600 serial publications published in up to 40 languages.
This trial was available until April 8, 2013. - Gale/DISCUS Academic PackageGale is offering a special package of resources to South Carolina academic libraries including, but not limited to:
• Academic OneFile
• Books & Authors
• Business & Company Resource Center
• Custom Newspapers
• Educator's Reference Complete
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Health & Wellness Resource Center
• Science In Context
• Small Business Resource Center
• US History In Context
• World History In Context
This trial was available through August 1, 2012 on campus only and is now available through our All Databases Page - https://libguides.furman.edu/alldatabases - Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural ExchangeThis resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices. This trial was available from November 12- December 21.
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full TextProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text includes nearly 3 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
This trial was available from October 15-November 15, 2012. - Resources for College LibrariesResources for College Libraries provides a list of core print and electronic resources for academic libraries, including over 75,000 titles in 117 subjects. Developed by ACRL’s Choice and Bowker, RCL covers the two-year and four-year college curriculum and provides a list of core titles for undergraduate study.
A case sensitive username and password are required for access to RCL:
USERNAME: Furman
PASSWORD: 7364313006
This trial will be available until December 14, 2012. - SAGE Research MethodsSAGE Research Methods searches over 100,000 pages of SAGE book, journal and reference content. Users can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than discipline and can be used across the social sciences, and health sciences.
This trial was available from October 15-January 9, 2013 - Statistical Insight CompleteProQuest Statistical Insight provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Users can search between 200,000 to 500,000 tables with its advanced Search Tables functionality. This resource is updated monthly, allows line-item access to tables, and offers narrowing by source, data date, subject, and type of data breakdown.
This trial was available from October 5- November 5, 2012 - The Current Digest of the Chinese PressThe Current Digest of the Chinese Press offers a broad-survey of current events and happenings as reported by mass media in the People’s Republic of China. Updated weekly, the Digest offers a collection of articles, translated into English, from dozens of key Chinese newspapers on a wide range of topics, including politics, international relations, security, economics, education, public health, and culture.
This trial was available until March 26, 2013 - The PsycTESTSThe PsycTESTS repository for ready-to-use tests and measures features instruments that are relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, and social work. International in scope, this resource provides access to thousands of actual test instruments, most of which are available for immediate download and use in teaching and research. PsycTESTS is an authoritative source of structured information about tests of interest to a variety of fields, and while focused on contemporary instances of test use, has coverage that spans more than a century.
This trial was available until March 17, 2013. - Travel Writing, Spectacle and World HistoryThis collection includes Women's Travel Diaries and Correspondence from The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. These diaries and the supporting correspondence describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women. Included are first-hand accounts of major historical events as reported by eye witnesses, detailing key interests and themes in women’s lives, providing snapshots of cities, cultures and customs, and charting the rise of modern tourism and the travel industry.
This was available until March 7, 2013