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News Regarding Dickinson's Databases
Available Spring 2013
Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922 (trial through June 30)
More than 1,600 fully searchable newspapers from all 50 states. Searches can be limited by date range, article type, language,
place of publication, and newspaper title.
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets
Mostly US, but some international statistics on economic and social indicators, with built-in tools for creating charts and maps.
Access was formerly through Statistical Insight.
Data-Planet Statistical Ready Reference
An alternative search interface to Data-Planet's Statistical Datasets.
Audio Drama: L.A. Theatre Works (trial through June 24)
More than 300 dramatic works in streaming audio from the archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays include
significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
International Historical Statistics
Key economic and social indicators for the last 260 years. Users can view content as e-book or download as PDF or Excel tables.
Expanded access to Web of Science backfiles
Dickinson has purchased access to the Century of Science backfiles for the Science Citation Index and
Social Sciences Citation Index, which expands citation data in important journals back to 1900.
Women and Social Movements, International (trial through June 23)
Primary documents including letters and diaries of activists, and proceedings of historic conferences.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Vol. 1 (trial through June 11)
A collection of important works and archival materials related to key religious thinkers. Central topics in Volume 1 include: Protestantism,
Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Lutheranism, liberation theology, systematic theology, dialectical theology, and theocentric theology.
History Vault (coming soon)
A set of 11 collections of primary source documents covering aspects of US history. Collections include: Black Freedom, Immigration, NAACP,
Plantations, Politics and Society 1960-75, Slavery and the Law, Vietnam War, and Women's Rights.
African American Archives
Original historical documents pertaining to the history of African Americans, mostly in the United States, but also from the Colonial era and
the West Indies.
World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean (trial ended)
Historical primary and secondary sources, and contemporary scholarship on the region. Includes monographs, peer-reviewed journals, news sources,
multimedia, and maps.
Mental Measurements Yearbook & Tests in Print (coming soon)
A comprehensive guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments, and a bibliography to all known commercially available tests that
are currently in print in the English languages.
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
Peer reviewed journal that publishes biological, medical, chemical and physical research in video format.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
Overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world--Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman--from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE,
and scholarly interpretation of their influence in subsequent centuries.
FRANCIS
This database provides multidisciplinary and multilingual coverage of humanities and social sciences. Produced by Institut de l'Information
Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS).
Data Citation Index (coming soon)
From Web of Knowledge, a database of research data from repositories around the world, with links to works that cite the data. Data is mostly
from the life sciences, but includes a significant number of social science and physical science data sets, and a smaller number of sets from the
humanities.
Africa-Wide Information
A multidisciplinary collection with extensive coverage of Africa and African studies. Includes citations for journal articles,
research reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, books, and other scholarly sources.
Historical Digital Archives (ongoing trial)
11 separate databases of archival and primary source material, covering topics related to American history, including collections
focusing on Hispanic- and African-American history. The individual databases are: African American Historical Serials Collection;
American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection, Series 1-2; Arte Público Hispanic Historical
Collection, Series 1; Gateway to North America--People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York; Revolutionary War Era
Orderly Books from the New-York Historical Society; The Latino-Hispanic American Experience--Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers.
Education & Religion Collections added to CREDO Reference
Full text access to 68 new reference works on topics related to Education and Religion.
World Politics Review (ongoing trial)
A database and daily online publication focusing on foreign affairs and international politics, with original articles by subject
experts from journalism, research organizations, academia, government and elsewhere.
Academic Complete E-Book Collection
Collection of over 80,000 e-books from over 700 scholarly publishers and university presses. Multiple people can use
each book at the same time, and e-books may be downloaded to Android or iOS devices. Each e-book is also listed in
the Library Catalog and JumpStart.
Added to JSTOR: Life Sciences Collection
Life Sciences comprises the largest collection of journals in the field sciences, and broad coverage of the health sciences.
At more than 160 journals and 8 million pages, the collection is JSTOR's largest, spanning more than 340 years of science history
and research in the sciences. Disciplines include aquatic science, botany, developmental & cell biology, ecology, paleontology,
and zoology.
Added to JSTOR: Arts & Sciences IV Collection
This collection has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology and
public policy and administration. Among the titles are highly influential and diverse publications from leading professional
organizations in the fields of business and the social sciences.
PsycCRITIQUES (trial through June)
Book reviews from the American Psychological Association (APA).
PsycEXTRA (trial through June)
Bibliographic and full-text database with more than 280,000 records from the American Psychological Association (APA) that are not indexed
in other APA databases. Has an extensive coverage of "gray literature" (informally published material such as technical reports,
conference papers and newsletters) relating to psychology and the behavioral sciences.
Available Fall 2012
LGBT Studies in Video
Streaming video of documentaries, interviews, archival footage and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture,
civil rights, and other issues.
Jane's Security News Module
A leading source of international news and analysis related to military and security issues.
Social Sciences Premier Collection (ProQuest)
A collection of 14 databases with international coverage of the social sciences, sociology, linguistics, education, criminal justice,
political science and related topics.
Praeger Security International
The world's largest full-text electronic resource on international security, containing books, expert commentary, reports and primary
documents from foreign policy, military, and security professionals.
Black Studies in Video
Features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture
in the United States.
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
Nearly 170,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day with regular updates. In addition to concise biographical essays, it includes thousands of auction records, museum holdings, and bibliographies. Provides entries on famous and lesser known artists, and includes
images of artists’ signatures, monograms, and stamps.
Yomidas Rekishikan (Yomiuri Shimbun)
Japan's major newspaper 1874 to present, Japanese & English.
Available Summer 2012
- Biography Reference Center (Ebsco)
- Churchill Archive
- Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television (new online format)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II: New Editions [integrated with our existing ECCO Part I access] (Gale-Cengage)
- Emily Dickinson's Correspondences (U of Va)
- Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
- Literary Reference Center (Ebsco)
- National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888 to 1994 (Gale-Cengage), including all full color images and maps
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online Archive (Gale-Cengage), including:
- British Politics and Society
- Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
- British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
- Corvey Collection of European Literature, 1790-1840 (English, French, German)
- Points of View Reference Center (Ebsco)
- PrivCo -- Private Company Data
- RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals) now has Full Text
- Yomidas Rekishikan (Yomiuri Shimbun) - major Japanese newspaper
Available Spring 2012
- Brill's New Pauly (Classical Studies online encyclopedia)
- Encyclopedia of Islam, 2d and 3d editions online, Brill
- Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO): Open access science, social sciences, and arts & humanities journals, with an emphasis on those published in Latin America and the Caribbean countries.
- Credo Reference "Gender and Women's Studies Collection" (26 online reference books)
- The SUNDAY Times (London), 1821-2006 full-text [NewsVault cross-searching coming Summer 2012]
- Medieval Travel Writing full-text
- First World War Personal Experiences multimedia full-text
- The Listener Archive
- The Making of the Modern World, Part I & II
- Financial Times Digital Archive , 1882-2007
- The Economist Digital Archive, 1842-2006
- The Times (London) Digital Archive, 1785-2006
- 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Part I & II