Category Archives
June 29, 2007
NEW (Summer 2007) Black Studies Center
The Black Studies Center is a collection of several databases which can be cross-searched: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals, the backfile of The Chicago Defender, ProQuest Dissertations for Black Studies, and the Black Literature Index.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 09:28 AM
June 26, 2007
NEW (Summer 2007) Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana is based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions, and more.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 02:30 PM
NEW (Summer 2007) Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is an online collection of the full text of over 1,200 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 02:28 PM
NEW (Summer 2007) Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) is a collection of resources for the study of medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 02:27 PM
NEW (Summer 2007) Caribbean Literature
Caribbean Literature is a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the Caribbean during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 02:20 PM
NEW (Summer 2007) Blackwell Synergy
Blackwell Synergy is a collection of full-text journals from Blackwell Publishing in Arts and Humanities, Business, Social Sciences, and Science / Engineering / Medicine.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 02:18 PM
NEW (Summer 2007) African American Music Reference
African American Music Reference covers several forms of black American musical expression. The current release includes essays, images and biographical from 16 difference reference sources.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 02:14 PM
NEW (Summer 2007) Acta Sanctorum
Acta Sanctorums an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 02:12 PM
NEW (Summer 2007) 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
19th Century U.S. Newspapers contains digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 02:08 PM
NEW (Late Spring 2007) Berkeley Electronic Press ResearchNow
ResearchNow is a full-text collection of Berkeley Electronic Press journals plus working papers, preprints and other "grey literature" from participating institutional and subject-matter repositories.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 01:51 PM
NEW (Late Spring 2007) Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a multidisciplinary full-text and citation database with more scholarly journals than InfoTrac OneFile. It is one of the databases from the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL).
Posted by Gayle Baker at 01:47 PM
January 09, 2007
NEW (Spring 2007) - 10 Online Subject Encyclopedias
1. Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
2. Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History
4. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
5. Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior
6. Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
7. Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics
9. Encyclopedia of World Cultures
10. West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Posted by Gayle Baker at 03:30 PM
NEW (Spring 2007) - Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926, provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 03:19 PM
NEW (Spring 2007) - Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 770 journals.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 03:12 PM
NEW (Spring 2007) - CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition
CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition, 1972 - present, collects more than 2,500 primary sources covering current events around the world.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 03:08 PM
NEW (Spring 2007) - Art Museum Image Gallery
Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 03:06 PM
NEW (Spring 2007) - Historical Newspapers
We have the historical backfiles fo four major U.S. newspapers:
1. Atlanta Constitution, 1868 - 1929
2. Chicago Tribune, 1849 - 1985
3. Christian Science Monitor, 1908 - 1993
4. Washington Post, 1877 - 1990
Posted by Gayle Baker at 02:15 PM
February 28, 2006
NEW - Naxos Music Library
We are now subscribing to Naxos Music Library again. It is a comprehensive collection of classical music and offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, equivalent to over 8,800 CDs.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 09:40 AM
January 27, 2006
NEW - African American Song
African American Song contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 10:02 AM
January 09, 2006
NEW - World Biographical Information System Online
The World Biographical Information System Online is a comprehensive biographical resource with full-text articles in original typography. Information is grouped into different archives focused on a specific country or language/cultural area.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 09:24 PM
NEW - World Biographical Dictionary of Artists Online (AKL)
The World Biographical Dictionary of Artists Online (AKL) is the online version of the Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon, the most extensive, up-to-date and authoritative art history reference work on artists.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 09:22 PM
NEW - Thesaurus Lingua Graecae (TLG)
The Thesaurus Lingua Graecae is a digital library of Greek literature. It requires Greek fonts in order to view texts in Greek.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 09:18 PM
NEW - American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900
The American Periodicals Series Online is a collection of over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general interest magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically significant periodicals.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 09:03 PM
September 16, 2005
NEW - Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Global Sound, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 11:53 AM
NEW - CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
CAMIO is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums, highlighting the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 11:21 AM
August 01, 2005
CHANGE - BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
This database is now available through CSA.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 03:51 PM
NEW - ARTbibliographies Modern
ARTbibliographies Modern provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 12-13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 03:47 PM
NEW - DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 03:41 PM
July 22, 2005
NEW - BuildingGreen
The BuildingGreen Suite integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News,
and a database of more than 100 high-performance building case studies. This wealth of information
is searchable and cross-referenced by CSI MasterFormat division, LEED™ credit, or green topic.
Each article, product listing, and case study also lists related content and information sources.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 09:30 AM
NEW - BuildingGreen
The BuildingGreen Suite integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News,
and a database of more than 100 high-performance building case studies. This wealth of information
is searchable and cross-referenced by CSI MasterFormat division, LEED™ credit, or green topic.
Each article, product listing, and case study also lists related content and information sources.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 09:30 AM
June 09, 2005
NEW - German Literature Collections
German Literature Collections brings together five individual ProQuest German literature resources: Goethes Werke, Schillers Werke, Kafkas Werke, Brechts Werke and Die Deutsche Lyrik.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 10:03 AM
May 16, 2005
NEW -- Music & Performing Arts Online
This database is a combination of International Index to Music Fulltext and International Index to the Performing Arts.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 02:41 PM
April 15, 2005
NEW -- North American Theatre Online
North American Theatre Online is a comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 08:08 AM
NEW -- Vetus Latina
Vetus Latina contains the comprehensive patristic records of the Vetus Latina Institut in Beuron.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 08:04 AM
January 10, 2005
NEW - Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker
Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker. Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this rich primary source collection provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 04:49 PM
NEW - Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans is based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 04:45 PM
NEW - Early American Newspapers
Early American Newspapers. Covers every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States. This rich primary source collection provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 04:36 PM
December 09, 2004
CHANGE -- MLA via the EBSCO interface
In January the MLA Bibliography will no longer be available via the Ovid/SilverPlatter interface. MLA is now available through EBSCO. Links to full-text articles should be easier through this interface.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 09:32 AM
December 07, 2004
NEW: Works of Wittgenstein Added to Past Masters
Three new collections were recently added to Intelex Past Masters: Wittgenstein's Collected Works, Letters and Lectures and Published Works.
Past Masters provides access to definitive editions of collected works in philosophy and letters of noted English authors.
In 2005 the UT Libraries plans to add catalog records for all of the collections for which we have access.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 10:10 AM
October 29, 2004
NEW - IPM: Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series
IPM: Index to Printed Music consists of three different databases: Index Database, Bibliography Database, and Names Database. It allows one to find individual pieces of music printed in scholarly editions and contains approximately 135,000 entries. It is updated quarterly and is limited to 1 simultaneous user.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 10:46 AM
October 11, 2004
NEW - Classical Music Library
This database of streaming music features 35,000+ tracks of music from 32+ major and independent classical labels, including BMG Classics and EMI Classics.
Access is limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 10:24 AM
September 28, 2004
NEW - Naxos Music Library
This database provides access over 80,000 tracks (5,500 CDs) of recorded music -- the entire Naxos, Marco Polo, and Da Capo catalogs plus First Edition reissues of 20th-century classical compositions. While the majority of the tracks are classical, Naxos also provides recordings in jazz, blues, world and Chineses music. New releases are added monthly. Listen to whole CDs or individual tracks.
Access is limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 10:01 AM
September 02, 2004
NEW - Women's Studies International
Women's Studies International covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented and include ISSNs.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 12:44 PM
August 11, 2004
Fall 2004 Library Workshops Feature Electronic Resources
The library is sponsoring a series of workshops this fall. Several of them will feature electronic resources: Web of Science, SciFinder Scholar, Academic Search Premier, EndNote, full-text databases, datasets, etc. The registration form and detailed list of workshops, go to http://www.lib.utk.edu/instruct/workshop/.
Posted by Gayle Baker at 08:41 AM
