Some 20 recent and forthcoming databases and online products.
American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990. Gale. www.gale.com/primary-sources
Available December 2016. This collection of papers spans most of the 20th-century. Law and humanities libraries serving scholars and students in 20th-century American social history, politics, and law will find this archive of special interest because of its focus on civil rights, civil liberties, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Cancer Biology. Annual Review. www.annualreviews.org/journal/cancerbio
Available March 2017. The journal will review a range of subjects in cancer research. With recent advances in understanding the basic mechanisms of cancer development and the translation of an increasing number of these findings into the clinic in the form of targeted treatments for the disease, this resource will be divided into three broad themes: Cancer Cell Biology, Tumorigenesis and Cancer Progression, and Translational Cancer Science.
Credo Issue Briefs. Credo/Law Street Media. corp.credoreference.com/collections/essentials-collections.html
Curated to cover the latest news on law, politics, technology, economics, education, the environment, health, and more. Going beyond the headlines, these articles dig deeply into issues to explain their relevance in the modern world and expose both sides of the story. Credo’s Issue Briefs are available for subscription alongside Credo’s Core collections.
The Criminal Justice & Criminology Video Collection. SAGE Knowledge. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/sage-video%20
Brings the intertwined fields of Criminology and Criminal Justice to life for students. Forensic scientists analyze crime scene evidence, police officers employ technology while on the beat, defense attorneys interact with a potpourri of clients, and the Brighton Bomber struggles to make peace with family members of his terrorist attack victims. All these real-world stories and more are interwoven with footage of world-leading experts providing analysis into the current state of the fields and the critical of-the-moment debates occurring in them.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders: Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and the World Health Organization’s International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems: 10th Revision (ICD-10). Alexander Street. www.alexanderstreet.com/dsm5
Illustrates and explains the most common disorders and their coding within each manual. The collection aims to give students and healthcare providers insight into mental health disorders and their classifications and deliver a means of understanding the diagnostic tools used by clinicians in practice.
To create the collection, Alexander Street partnered with educational film producer Classroom Productions to create a series of films that align with the 20 most-often diagnosed mental disorders as defined in the DSM-5® and ICD-10. Each program uses scenarios with professional actors to demonstrate the characteristics of a given category of mental disorder and includes interviews with professionals in the field of mental health. The collection includes 21 individual video titles including diagnostic criteria, bipolar disorders, gender dysphoria, and personality disorders.
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: Literature, Grammar, Language, Catalogues, and Periodicals. Gale. www.gale.com/primary-sources
Available December 2016. Showcases early Arabic printed books of folktales, pre-Islamic literature, Islamic poetry and prose, proverbs and sayings, language and lexicography, dictionaries, grammar, syntax, rhetoric, manuscript catalogs, and periodicals. Over 400 works of poetry are included in this collection. These texts include many diwan by different authors, the Mu’allaqat, the Mufaddaliyat, the romance of Bani Hilal, Luqman’s fables, and many other works and collections in Arabic and translated into English, French, German, and other languages. Included are nine editions of The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic, including the Calcutta 1814–18 edition, 28 editions in English translation, 13 in French, six in German, and 39 editions of selections in various languages. In addition, there are over 130 works of grammar, over 100 lexical works critical for the study of linguistics and language, and 175 works of bibliography and catalogs, which include 19th-century catalogs of collections of Arabic and other “Oriental” manuscripts in libraries across Europe and the Middle East. Finally, 45 19th-century periodicals, the majority printed in Beirut, Cairo, London, and Paris, provide insight into the cultural, intellectual, and social lives of people in the Middle East.
Freedom in the 50 States. Cato Inst. www.freedominthe50states.org
The 2016 edition of Freedom in the 50 States, now published by the Cato Institute, presents a completely revised and updated ranking of the American states based on how their policies promote freedom in the fiscal, regulatory, and personal realms. The online companion to the print books offers essential reference for anyone interested in state policy and in advancing a better understanding of a free society.
Global Breaking Newswires. ProQuest. www.proquest.com/products-services/Global-Breaking-Newswires.html
Available September 2016. Global Breaking Newswires from ProQuest is a full-text online news database providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe for the modern researcher. Offering premier newswire sources all in one place, this database includes the top global news wire agencies and is available on the award-winning ProQuest platform.
Fashion Photography Archive. Bloomsbury. www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/products/fashion-photography-archive
Available Fall 2016. A fully searchable and indexed resource that will contain over 750,000 runway, backstage, and street style images when complete. Hundreds of articles as well as audio and video resources provide context and analysis from scholars and commentators. It covers international runway shows from the 1970s until 2000, including key designers such as McQueen, Gaultier, Westwood, Chalayan, and Galliano.
GOLD. Grey House. gold.greyhouse.com
Free online access available on the GOLD platform now includes: Profiles of Florida, 2017; Encyclopedia of Human Rights in The United States; This is Who We Were: In the 1900s; Profiles of Texas, 2017; America’s Top-Rated Cities, 2017; Encyclopedia of Religion & the Law in America, Profiles of New York, 2017/18; The Comparative Guide to American Suburbs, 2017/18; Profiles of Illinois, 2017; Profiles of Virginia, 2017; Working Americans, Industry Through the Ages; Nations of the World, 2018.
Health Reference Series. Omnigraphics. omnigraphics.com/shop/category/health-reference-series
Beginning Fall 2016, schools and libraries that purchase any Omnigraphics Health Reference Series print volume will automatically have access to the same content online for free. For no extra cost beyond the initial print purchase, libraries and schools can build their own online health resource tailored to their community’s needs. Online delivery offers unlimited users at up to two library locations, remote access from anywhere at any time, individual user accounts for patrons and students, an intuitive interface, a natural-language search, and researcher tools including citation generation. All customers who purchased volumes published in 2015 and going forward will have that same content ready for them to access for free. Librarians can buy Health Reference Series print volumes at the price they always have and receive complimentary access to the same content online for as long as that edition is in print.
History of Mass Tourism. Adam Matthew. www.masstourism.amdigital.co.uk
The History of Mass Tourism provides insight into 19th- and 20th-century leisure travel and the growth of tourism for the masses between c.1850–1980s. Covering travel to all the continents, the resource provides the average traveler with a broad overview of the destinations with focus on the United States, Britain, and Europe.
LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part II. Gale. www.gale.com/LGBTQ
Available June 2017. This past year Gale launched the largest digital archive of LGBTQ history and culture with Part 1 of the Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity. The name has since been revised to Archives of Sexuality and Gender to better reflect content in the archive. Highlighting diversity within the LGBTQ community, LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part II provides researchers with primary sources critical to understanding the lived history of LGBTQ individuals, and covers a diverse range of subjects from the social, to the political and beyond. Partnering with institutions such as the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Duke University, and others, the archive includes a unique and international selection of periodicals, organizational papers, manuscripts, posters, pamphlets, and more.
The MLA Style Center. Modern Language Association. style.mla.org
Writing resources from the Modern Language Association, including curricular supports on plagiarism, information on MLA style, sample papers, and research tips.
Music Index. EBSCO. www.ebscohost.com/academic/music-index
Provides more than 130 full-text journals covering music, musicians, and the music industry. It also includes indexing and abstracts for more than 570 periodicals and selective coverage for an additional 200 periodicals, as well as reviews of performances, sound recordings, and videos.
The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs). Oxford Univ. www.oxfordre.com
The OREs offer long-form overview articles written and edited by scholars and researchers addressing both foundational and cutting-edge topics across the major disciplines. Oxford University Press is developing this program in response to a growing need for reliable information to be used at the start of research on an unfamiliar topic. The Oxford Research Encyclopedias will be a constantly growing and evolving reference source.
17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection. Gale. www.gale.com/primary-sources
Coming March 2017. The two largest collections of 17th and 18th century newspapers were owned by Dr. Charles Burney and his fellow collector, John Nichols. The Burney collection was acquired by the British Museum (later transferred to The British Library), and is available digitally here for the first time. All the pages have been newly scanned from the original physical copies, not microfilm, to ensure the highest possible quality.
The Sociology Video Collection. SAGE Knowledge. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/sage-video%20
Covers the full spectrum of the discipline to provide students the opportunity to explore the ways in which sociology is interwoven into all aspects of everyday life. Viewers watch as advocates and activists seek to alleviate social problems and also observe city planners. An exploration of the inner workings of the Alzheimer’s Society, Change.org, and Just Life helps users bridge the gap between theory and practice, while carefully chosen licensed content from BBC Worldwide, Center for New American Media, the Economic and Social Research Council, and others adds rich, real-world context.
State Papers Online. Pt. 3: State Papers Foreign—Western Europe. Gale. www.gale.com/primary-sources
Coming March 2017. Part 3 includes the State Papers series relating to France, Portugal, Spain, Malta, the Italian States and Rome, Genoa, Tuscany, Venice, Savoy and Sardinia, Sicily, and Naples. It also includes the Royal Letters and Treaties series. These are the papers written or received by the secretaries of state in their conduct of British diplomacy in these territories through the 18th century. The collection turns its lens on the 18th-century world beyond England, documenting the relationship of the Hanoverian reign with France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. For France, this collection includes the documents for the period between the death of Louis XIV and the French Revolution, France’s defeat in the Seven Year’s War, the loss of New France in North America, and the gain of Lorraine and Corsica. The narratives of each country’s history are contained in the letters and reports of British ambassadors, consuls, and agents included in this collection.
Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives. Readex. www.readex.com/content/twentieth-century-global-perspectives
A new family of digital resources for teaching and research in popular topics in academic libraries. Each of these collections offers new insight for teaching and scholarship in 20th-century geopolitics for a variety of disciplines. The five collections from the Archives of the Central Intelligence Agency are comprised of primary source documents from around the world, including government publications, magazines, newspapers, and transcribed television and radio broadcasts, all collected and translated by the Central Intelligence Agency between 1941 and 1996. The five collections in Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives are Apartheid: Global Perspectives, 1946–1996; American Race Relations: Global Perspectives, 1941–1996; Immigrations, Migrations and Refugees: Global Perspectives, 1941–1996; The Cold War: Global Perspectives on East-West Tensions, 1945–1991; and Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1958–1994.