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The Libraries have purchased 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, which provides access to the 'newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) [which] represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection ...totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles.' More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to AccessScience, which contains McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th edition, in a fully-searchable format. More info.
The Libraries have purchased online access to Testaments to the Holocaust, which contains 'Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London. This digital resource offers the unique resources of the World’s oldest Holocaust museum.' More info.
The Libraries have expanded our subscription to Safari Tech Books Online, to the full file (rather than three most recent years) and 8 concurrent users rather than 5. We now have access to over 5,000 books from the mid-1990's to the present, including content from all top four technology publishers (Pearson, Wiley, O'Reilly Media and Microsoft Press), that represent more than 85% of the computer books sold at retail in the U.S. Please logout when finished using it. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to Encyclopaedia of Islam, Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, and Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, all fully searchable and browsable, together or independently, from the same site. See the descriptions on the Databases: E page in the Library website for more information.
The Libraries have subscribed to Current Index to Statistics, which indexes publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to Book Review Index for one concurrent user. This is a comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to a service that provides full-color cover images and links to author notes, fiction and biography profiles, Publishers Weekly reviews, summaries and annotations, and tables of contents. This added info comes from servers at the vendor of the service, linked by the ISBNs on the catalog records. Not all records will have the added info, based on what's available on the vendor's servers. Check it out by doing any search in the online catalog, and see what you get!
The Libraries have subscribed to Oxford Islamic Studies Online for three concurrent users. This full-text source "...brings together the best current scholarship in the field and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture,..." More info.
The Libraries have purchased 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, which provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages (over 28 million articles) of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. More info.
