Category: News & Current Issues

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Databases Added

Films on Demand — Multidisciplinary streaming video service providing access to digital educational films.

Pravda Digital Archive — Full-text searchable database of the newspaper Pravda, the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, published between 1912-2009.

California’s Historical Newspapers, 1850-1922:  Digital archive of American historical newspapers from California.

Gale Directory LibraryOnline access to directories: Brands and their Companies; Business Rankings Annual; Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory; Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.; Market Share Reporter; and Scholarships, Fellowships & Loans

American State Papers, 1789-1838: Digital collection of primary source material on many aspects of early American history. Contains the legislative and executive documents of Congress from 1789 to 1838.

Customize Your Library Resources

Our subject-based database pages and Multisearch tool have recently been updated. Now you can embed a list of subject-specific librarian-selected databases in your own web page using Javascript or HTML. If you log in, you can also select from Library resources to build custom collections of article databases, research guides, and librarian pages which can be used on our site or embedded in your external page. See Creating and Using Custom Library Resources for more information.

New Electronic Resources

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 is a digital archive of more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Early English Books Online contains digital images of over 125,000 works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere between 1473 and 1700 – from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Women's Issues Database Added

Contemporary Women’s Issues (Gale) is a multidisciplinary database providing full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries, bringing together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, “gray” literature, and the alternative press. Coverage from 1992 to present.

Two New Databases

  • Greenfile (EBSCO) indexes scholarly, government and general interest titles covering information on all aspects of human impact on the environment.
  • Literature Criticism Online (GALE) provides full-text access to the literary critical works in classical and medieval, contemporary and twentieth-century literature.

EndNote Web

You can now use EndNote Web to collect and manage your citations — even produce a “Works Cited” list. Go to the EndNote Web start page to create your account. See Managing Citations Using EndNote Web for more information.

LexisNexis Summer Web Seminars

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

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

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.

Who’s Who on the Web

Marquis Who’s Who on the Web has been added to Databases A-Z.  It contains biographies of over 1.4 million people of note in the United States and around the world, taken from 21 Marquis Who’s Who print publications such as Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who in American Politics. 1985-present. Access limited to 1 user at a time.

History Databases Added

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Databases Added

The following 5 databases were added: