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The Libraries have subscribed to Medieval Sourcesonline, which provides full-text access to a number of translated medieval texts. You can search within the individual works (in PDF), using the search function of Acrobat, but cannot search across all the texts. More info.
America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts are now available on the EBSCO interface. Please note that the ABC-Clio interface will cease as of June 30, 2008. More info about America: History and Life. More info about Historical Abstracts.
Three former Sage Abstracts journals in print are now available online as EBSCO databases: Race Relations Abstracts covers areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, and immigration studies. Human Resources Abstracts covers areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, and organizational behavior. Urban Studies Abstracts covers areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history. More info about Race Relations Abstracts. More info about Human Resources Abstracts. More info about Urban Studies Abstracts.
The Washington University Libraries are delighted to announce the 2008 undergraduate and graduate winners of the annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition.
EBSCO has made available a free database called GreenFILE, which covers all aspects of human impact on the environment and indexes scholarly, government and general-interest titles. We've added it to our EBSCO profile so that citations will have Get it! buttons to full-text where available. More info.
Grove Music Online is now part of Oxford Music Online, covering all aspects of music. It includes the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music. More info.
Grove Art Online is now part of Oxford Art Online, a comprehensive and authoritative guide with extensive surveys and in-depth articles on the history of art; provides links to museums, galleries, and art collections around the world, as well as images. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to the (New) Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, which contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists. More info.
The revised NIH Public Access Policy is effective today. It requires NIH-funded investigators to submit (or have submitted for them) their final, peer reviewed manuscript to PubMed Central upon acceptance of publication to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. This policy applies to manuscripts accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. The University Libraries stand ready to help you with questions you may have about compliance, copyright policies of journals where you may want to publish, etc. Save Your Time! Ask Us: Subject Librarians for NIH Public Policy Compliance & Journal Policy Concerns.
