eCollection News

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) - Renaissance and Reformation

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) – Renaissance and Reformation, now available online, is a tool that researchers at all levels (undergraduates through faculty) can use to find the most important and significant resources (reference works, books, journals, archives, websites and more) on selected topics in history and culture from the 14th through the 17th centuries.

Articles are written by leading scholars, including Washington University’s Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History, William Wallace (see Michelangelo Buonarroti). Updates and new entries will be added on a regular basis. To learn more, visit About OBO.

WU Libraries also subscribe to OBO Islamic Studies and OBO Social Work.

Berg Fashion Library - award winning online extravaganza

The Berg Fashion Library (Oxford University Press) is an online resource now available through the catalog and Fashion research guide.

Featuring fully cross-searchable text and images, it covers world fashion and dress, from pre-history to the present day. The collection includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. Information about the content is available here.

The New York Review of Books - online subscription

This month the WU Libraries began an online subscription to The New York Review of Books . You can enjoy reading the NYRB from the comfort of a soft arm chair sipping a soothing cup of tea. We have access from the first issue (1963) to the most current. The publication is searchable by contributor as well as by author and title of a work or of a review essay. Enjoy.

Oxford Scholarship Online Ebook packages

WU users now have access to 3 ebook packages from Oxford Scholarship Online. Becker Medical Library purchased Oxford Scholarship Online: Neuroscience. The Social Work Library purchased Oxford Scholarship Online: Public Health and Epidemiology and Oxford Scholarship Online: Social Work ebook packages.

Chapters are available as fulltext html or pdf files. Search options include searching every word within the text or just bibliographic information. Additional titles will be added 3 times a year. More info.

Early Journal Content in JSTOR now freely available

Journal content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere is being made freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. Watch for “FREE” badge icons throughout the JSTOR site.

Of course WU-affiliated users have access to much more material on JSTOR.

Early journal content FAQs gives more information about this collection.

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Dictionary of Literary Biography is now available online. It includes biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Bibliographies of primary and secondary literature are also included.

• European Literature volumes
• World literature volumes
• Latin American and Hispanic literature volumes

These articles are an excellent resource for undergraduates and others beginning research on an author.

National Technical Reports Library (NTIS/NTRL) fulltext access added

NTIS/NTRL (National Technical Reports Library)
'The National Technical Information Service acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports in existence. The NTRL offers access to these authenticated government technical reports to libraries and technical information users.' This is a subscription site that includes indexing for 2 million+ titles with links to over 600,000 full-text reports (in PDF). More info.

Voter Turnout in the United States 1788 - 2009. Cutris Gans. CQ Press. 2010 [print]

  Based on meticulous research on participation in U.S. elections dating back to 1788,   this important new work provides comprehensive turnout statistics for general and  primary elections for presidential, congressional, and state gubernatorial races. Extensive graphs and tables detail over two centuries of trends:

  *Turnout data presented in 20-year periods *Voter turnout by party affiliation   *State  level data

 Voter turnout—the percentage of eligible citizens who cast ballots in a given election— offers insight into the health of American democracy at any given moment in time or over a span of years...

 Key Features

• Annual state-by-state voter turnout statistics date back to the early years of the republic during the rise of mass electoral behavior
• Turnout for presidential, U.S. Senate and state gubernatorial elections, plus aggregate state-level data for U.S. House elections
• Election law changes that impact voting trends
• Figures and graphs with aggregate trends in participation rates over time

CQ Press - publisher information on the title. 

 

Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. by Mark Bevir. SAGE Publications, 2010. 3v

This timely new encyclopedia provides an informative starting point for the general reader needing essential information on the key figures and central ideas associated with the field of political theory.

This work addresses three key questions affecting society and politics:

• How do we arrange our collective affairs?
• Why do we live together in the ways we do?
• How ought we live together?

In this rapidly changing and potentially explosive political climate a work of this caliber is defintely needed.

21st Century Handbooks from Sage Reference Online

The Library now has access to the following eBooks from Sage's 21st Century Reference Series which provide cutting-edges guides to the major concepts and issues of the disciplines they treat.

21st century anthropology: a reference handbook / editor, H. James Birx.

21st century economics : a reference handbook / editor, Rhona C. Free

21st century political science: a reference handbook / edited by John T. Ishiyama, Marijke Breuning.

Also new from Sage are two online encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of social movement media / edited by John D.H. Downing

Encyclopedia of political theory  / Mark Bevir, editor