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Famed novelist Joyce Carol Oates will keynote "Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors." The Center for the Humanities and University Libraries present the Sixth Annual Faculty Book Colloquium at 5:00 p.m., December 3, 2007, Holmes Lounge, Danforth Campus. Call (314) 935-5576 to RSVP. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to Bibliographic Index Plus, a cumulative bibliography of bibliographies for convenient answers to a variety of research questions in all areas. Contains selected full-text bibliographies. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to The Responsa Project, which contains the world's largest electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew. The database includes: rabbinic case-law rulings; the Bible and the Talmud with their principal commentaries; the major codes of Jewish law, i.e., Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and other significant primary texts of Jewish law and life. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, a 'rich and comprehensive bibliography of approximately 90% of books printed in the Hebrew Language between 1470 and 1960.' More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES), which provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, from 1939-present. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to Index to Jewish Periodicals, a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs, from 1988-present. More info.
The Libraries have purchased the current releases, 2007 and forward, of the Gale Literature Criticism series, now available at Literature Criticism Online. The 10 individual Thomson Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to both Human Relations Area Files databases: HRAF World Cultures and HRAF Archaeology. Both are full-text; World Cultures provides in-depth information on all aspects of cultural and social life, and Archaeology information on prehistory of the world. More info on HRAF World Cultures. More info on HRAF Archaeology.
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The Libraries have subscribed to WDI Online (World Development Indicators), the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development, now searchable online. More info.
