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The following new e-resources were recently added to the Columbia University Libraries website:

American History in Video
A large online collection of video for the study of American history
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio7165647

State Papers Online: The Government of Britain, 1509-1714
This collection contains information on every facet of English government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions and intelligence gathering as well as Britain's international relations and foreign policy.
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio7201506

Counseling and Therapy in Video
Provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio7195347

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The following new e-resource was recently added to the Columbia
University Libraries website.

CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio7187735

CAMIO fills the gap left by the end of operations of the Art Museum
Image Consortium (AMICO). This new database not only supports art
history, studio art, and design departments, it also provides rich
context for history, religion, and other humanities programs.

ERC: Paula Gabbard
Access: IP

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Global Financial Data is a collection of financial and economic data provided in ASCII or Excel format. Data includes: long-term historical indices on stock markets; Total Return data on stocks, bonds, and bills; interest rates; exchange rates; inflation rates; bond indices; commodity indices and prices; consumer price indices; gross domestic product; individual stocks; sector indices; treasury bill yields; wholesale price indices; and unemployment rates covering over 200 countries.

Labels: business, databases

Digitalia, with an interface in English and Spanish, offers a large catalog of e-book titles from Spanish publishers and selected magazines in digital format.

Labels: databases, eBooks, Spanish

English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980. ... It comprises: A large body of maps, color paintings, photographs and drawings depicting people, places, customs and events that will enliven any study of China.

Labels: china, databases, history

Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries ( The Asahi Shinbun Newspaper )
A newspaper database for Asahi shinbun containing 8 million articles (as of January, 2009) published from 1945 to present.

ReVIEW
ReVIEW is a service that aims to digitize many of the most important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the nineteenth and early years twentieth centuries.

Labels: databases, fine arts, historical, Japanese

Dictionnaire d'histoire et de ge?ographie eccle?siastiques (DHGE) The Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques comprises extensive articles on the history of the Church. It is the online version of the reference work published by Letouzey et Ané.

Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique. Bibliographie (RHE)
International bibliography on religious history covering among other topics: institutions, orders, congregations, people, hagiography, relations with Islam and Judaism, art history, music and architecture.

Labels: databases, french, religion

Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides access to a collection of aggregated and integrated reference books from high-quality publishers.

Online library of liberty
Classic books about individual liberty going back 4,000 years and covering economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion, war and peace

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ASTM digital library Provides over 30,000 papers and chapters and more than 400,000 pages of information.

ASTM International : standards worldwide. Includes catalogs of standards and of other publications of ASTM International, as well as information about its members and activities.

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Nineteenth-century literature and culture collection
A source of primary and secondary materials by some of the era's most enduring figures: William Wells Brown, Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Shore.

The Adams papers digital edition
The Adams Papers Digital Edition comprises John Adams's complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers.

American founding era collection
Rotunda's American Founding Era collection offers scholars and students at all levels an invaluable source of primary and secondary materials by some of the era's most enduring figures, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton.

Emily Dickinson's correspondences
Unpublished in book form during her lifetime, the poems of Emily Dickinson were nonetheless shared with those she trusted most--through her letters.

Latin American newspapers
Searchable collection of historical Latin American newspapers.

World newspaper archive
Searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the world.

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American Song
American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past.

Contemporary world music
Contemporary world music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres.

Global Development Finance
Global Development Finance Online (GDF) provides access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 129 countries.

World Bank e-Library
The World Bank e-library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents.

Labels: business, databases, music

Forwarded to selectors by Jeff Carroll:

Dear Jeff,

I am happy to tell you about the following updates to a number of our performing arts databases, some or all of which you now own.

African American Music Reference: Six new sources (1,630 pages) released including 4 titles from the University Press of Mississippi (Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story; Ladies of Soul; Nobody Knows Where The Blues Comes From; Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life). Also included are new scores of spirituals and many blues lyrics examples included in the new texts.

American Song: 74 new albums (1,354 tracks) from Arhoolie Records, including new albums featuring Tejano, conjunto, norteño, blues, cajun, zydeco, bluegrass, and American folk genres. Example new albums include: Conjunto Bernal: 16 Early Tejano Classics; Pine Leaf Boys: La Musique; Oscar "Papa" Celestin And His Tuxedo Jazz Band; Wade Frugé- Old Style Cajun Music.

Opera in Video: German language subtitles released for Capriccio, Gloriana, Pique Dame, Satyagraha, Turandot, and French language subtitles released for Satyagraha. These languages now appear as options in the subtitle transcript link, as keyword searchable text, plus as language options for scrolling subtitles in the player.

Classical Scores Library: 239 new scores (309 pages) and 119 new composers released from the Historical Anthology of Music series from Harvard University Press. This release of material includes important medieval and Renaissance composers such as Gibbons, Palestrina, Dowland, Lassus, Des Prez, Adam de la Halle, Byrd, DuFay, Gabrieli (both Andrea and Giovanni), Le Jeune, Machaut, Ockeghem, Sweelinck, Tallis and Victoria. This material fills an important gap in early music repertoire in Classical Scores Library.

Contemporary World Music: 131 new albums (1,934 tracks) from ARC Music, Playasound, INEDIT, Budamusique, Nimbus, and Topic Records including new albums featuring Indian Classical, flamenco, tango, belly dance, klezmer, calypso, mariachi, son, and corrido music. Example new albums include: Nazaré Pereira: Ritmos da Amazonia - Para Belem; Noor Shimaal: Where Africa Meets the Orient; Chatuye: "Heartbeat in the Music" - World Music in California; Chocolate - Peru's Master Percussionist.

Enjoy your new tracks and reference materials. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,
Mary

Mary Siegel
Senior Sales Manager
siegel@alexanderstreet.com
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Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
www.alexanderstreet.com

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Cambridge Histories Online
Provides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects.
ERC: Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn

MATHnetBASE
Contains handbooks and books covering a wide range of topics in applied mathematics.
ERC: Vivian Sukenik

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Complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isle during the 16th and 17th centuries. Contents include account books, advice, culinary writing, meditation, travel writing, and verse. Perdita manuscripts can be indexed by name, place, genre, and first lines of both poetry and prose.

ERC: John Tofanelli

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New electronic resource:

Images of the American Civil War : photographs, posters, and ephemera presents the dramatic imagery of nineteenth-century Americana as experienced from the social, military, and political perspectives. At completion, the collection will present 75,000 images drawn from archives around the country, documenting the camp and battle experiences of Union and Confederate soldiers of all ranks, time spent in hospitals and in prisons, civilian life in cities and towns close to and far from the front lines of war, and the demeanor of the politicians whose decisions could bring the nation together or tear it apart. Many of the images in the collection were captured by famous and lesser-known innovators working with the burgeoning medium of nineteenth-century photography. Additionally, graphical content such as envelopes, song sheets, recruiting posters, imprints, and cartoons give users the ability to research how wartime America illustrated their times visually.

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Aluka: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa
Focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in Southern African, with an initial concentration on six nations: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.

Electronic Enlightenment
Searchable and browseable database offering extensive access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources.

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The two Avery Indexes, Information from Kitty Chibnik:

The contents (the records) of the Avery Index via OCLC and via Wilson are the same. Honestly, I use and show students the OCLC version most of the time because *it includes our local call number (Avery No.)* at the bottom of the record itself. They can just note down the citation information and the call number and go to the stacks and get the volume. Quick and easy. This eliminates having to explain "E-Link" or the need going back to CLIO to search for the journal in order to get the call number Of course, it misses finding an e-article which students love, but that's hit or miss in the architecture field in any case.With both the OCLC version and the Wilson version, you can search multiple databases simultaneously, but each vendor offers a different lineup of databases, so depending on the question, you might pick one version over the other. Say the question is about work done by a contemporary artist who is working on a public art project in a park (for instance, Battery City) so articles might show up in art journals and in architecture journals. In that case, it is worth using the Wilson version because you can search the Avery Index, Art Full Text, Art Retrospective, and others in one shot. But you have to explain the call number bit.Similarly, you should at look at the lineup of databases in OCLC to see what combinations might be worth doing. For instance for a more real estate oriented or general question , you could combine an Avery Index search with ArticleFirst and ABI Inform. or for a artist/architect (say, Michelangelo) , you could search Avery along with the Bibliography of the History of Artt (BHA). Only the Avery Index records will have our call numbers included; any other results would need E-link.On the surface the interface in Wilson may be a bit easier to use in terms of doing limiting because it is boxes to click and dropdowns to choose. But, I don't think you can specify multiple illustration types (say, the student wants both elevations and drawings of a building) which you can do in OCLC by using keywords.
OCLC: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?ALD2229
Wislon: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio6383857

I (kdd) found that the results varied when I used the exact same words in each database, hence Ted Goodman gave this explanation:

Hi- it's very simple--I did both searches again and got your same results: negroes and housing.the reason is that in OCLC it only gives you results for the actual term negroes whereas in Wilson it gives you results that include negro (both the singular form as well as the spanish term for black), negroe and negroes.==thus 22. if you look at the Wilson results you'll see many that are not relevant because they are in spanish and refer to the black house, etc.In OCLC to get similar results you should truncate negr? and housing although even this only returns 19. It may also be bacause OCLC hasn't been updated since April. They have been having a loading problem which should be resolved this week.

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Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.

The Birds of North America Online
This database provides scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada, with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, recordings of bird's songs and calls selected from the collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Includes also an extensive bibliography for each species.

Clotel
The first African American novel, Clotel was published when its author was still legally a slave. This digital edition presents, for the first time together, the full extant texts of the novel's four versions, published between 1853 and 1867. Imaged and coded, the fully searchable texts may be read individually or in parallel and are accompanied by generous biographical, critical, and historical commentary as well as line-by-line annotations and textual collation.

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American County Histories to 1900
These books include chapters with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, churches and ministers, industry and manufacturing, banking and insurance, schools and teachers, noted celebrations, fire departments and associations, cemeteries, family histories, health and vital statistics, roads and bridges, public officials and legislators, and many additional subject areas.

Documents on British Policy Overseas: Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
Documents on British Policy Overseas provides users with access to a wide range of primary source documents from Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, shedding light on throughout the twentieth century. Selected and edited by the official historians of the FCO, Documents on British Policy Overseas includes many documents specifically de-classified for inclusion in the series.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century. Based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project,” a national research effort directed by Professor Nicolás Kanellos, this digital resource is the first in a new American Ethnic Newspapers series, available within America’s Historical Newspapers.


Historical Guardian and Observer
The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

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Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences The presentations consist of navigable slides with accompanying narration synchronised for ease of listening. They are all approximately 40-50 minutes long and are organised into a comprehensive series of talks.

Serial Set Maps (via LexisNexis) Contains maps within the U.S. Serial Set which represent one of the greatest single collections of cartographic materials of the United States. From the exploration of the American West to the Parisian defenses during the Crimean War, the Serial Set carto-bibliographic records allow unprecedented access to the 52,000+ maps of the Serial Set. Searchable segments include title, geographic subject, map relief method, and names on map. Search results bring up carto-bibliographic entries with map title, notation of content, date, and the Serial Set Map ID number. The full carto-bibliographic view shows the entire record, below which is an abbreviated record of the publication in which the map occurs. The link at the bottom of the full document record accesses the PDF version of the publication in which the map occurs. Users can navigate to the specific map by using PDF bookmarks.

Serial Set Digital Collection (via LexisNexis) Contains the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives constitute a rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial set will consist of approximately 13,800 volumes and over 12 million pages.

Labels: databases, gov docs, life sciences, maps