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LexisNexis Summer Web Seminars

ealtman — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:38:30 +0000

LexisNexis is offering summer web seminars. You can register here: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicwebseminars/

You’ll receive immediate confirmation of registration and the instructions for logging in to the seminar are emailed about 24 hours before the seminar itself. Please be sure to note the date(s) you’ve signed up for on your calendar.

Hispanic American Newspapers

ealtman — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:38:28 +0000

The database America’s Historical Newspapers now includes full-text access to Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980, a compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Digital Exhibition on Anti-Semitism

ealtman — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:51:30 +0000

The Oviatt Library presents In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California 1933-1945, a virtual version of the 1989 CSUN Urban Archives Center exhibit of the same name. The original exibition was co-sponsored by The Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, the Martyrs Memorial & Museum of the Holocaust, and the CSUN Bibliographic Society. It includes materials contributed by Joseph Roos, UCLA Special Collections, and the California State Archives.

New Music Database

ealtman — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:55:36 +0000

Classical Music Library is a database of classical music sound recordings with more than 50,000 tracks along with program notes, reference texts (composer biographies, history), and images. Music includes vocal and instrumental works from the Middle Ages to the present. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. You can find Classical Music Library on Databases A-Z and our Information Sources for Music pages.

Psychology Database Added

E. Altman — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:19:37 +0000

PsycCRITIQUES, a full text database with reviews of current books and popular films in psychology, has been added to Databases A-Z and our Find Articles and Research Data subject pages

Humanities and Social Sciences Dissertations

ealtman — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:13:16 +0000

Dissertations: Humanities and Social Sciences from Proquest is now available on Databases A-Z.

Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog

E. Altman — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:50:43 +0000

We’ve added a link to the open-access Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog to our Databases A-Z page. Most of the audio recordings included were produced 1933 and 1950. From the American Folklife Center description:

The card catalog represented in this online database was first created by Work Projects Administration (WPA) workers in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and continued by the Archive of Folk Song (now part of the American Folklife Center) staff into the early 1960s. Its purpose was to provide the public with access to the thousands of individual songs, tunes, folk tales, sermons, monologues, and life stories in the Archive’s collections.

RLG Eureka Databases Have Moved to FirstSearch

ealtman — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:51:45 +0000

Anthropology Plus, Bibliography of the History of Art, and Chicano Database are now available on OCLC’s FirstSearch platform. Access to the Eureka platform will be discontinued as of September 30th.

New Music Database

E. Altman — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:04:53 +0000

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is now available through Databases A-Z. The encyclopedia is divided into 10 “volumes,” each containing an overview of a world region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include images of musicians, musical instruments, maps, and musical examples for further study.

New Psychology Database

E. Altman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:07:43 +0000

PsycARTICLES has been added to Databases A-Z. Contains full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology, covering general, specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. Coverage from 1894.