New Electronic Resources at Milner

October 2009

Counseling and Therapy in Video: Now available from Alexander Street Press, Counseling and Therapy in Videos provides streaming videos related to the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling, many with accompanying study aids.  Includes demonstrations, interviews, lectures, and presentations.

 

September 2009

Abstracts in Anthropology:  the only comprehensive abstracting journal in the field, Abstracts in Anthropology has established itself as an indispensable reference and research tool for the international community of anthropologists. Abstracts in Anthropology covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics from a vast number of periodicals

Consumer Health Complete:  EBSCO's interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles

August 2009

CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts: provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration & policy. Coverage begins in 1975.

Abstracts in Anthropology: The only comprehensive abstracting journal in the field, Abstracts in Anthropology has established itself as an indispensable reference and research tool for the international community of anthropologists. Abstracts in Anthropology covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics from a vast number of periodicals.

Consumer Health Complete: EBSCO's interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.

July 2009

DRAM: DRAM provides on-demand streaming access to nearly 2,300 CD-quality audio (192kbps Mp4) files, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is the preferred player for DRAM streaming media.

Tests in Print: Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

Orchestral Music Online: Based on the fourth edition of the printed reference work Orchestral Music: A Handbook (2005, Scarecrow Press), Orchestral Music Online provides greater and easier access to more information on composers and works.

Business Source Premier: Milner has upgraded from Business Source Elite to Business Source Premier. Researchers now have access to full text from business journals beginning as early as 1886, 

GeoRef  is once again available on EBSCOhost.

Biological and  Agricultural Index is now available on WilsonWeb. Coverage begins in 1983, with full text becoming available with 1994 issues.

Business Abstracts has been cancelled by the library in order to provide expanded coverage of Business Source Premier.

April 2009

Atlas of North American English provides the an overall view of pronunciation and vowel systems of dialects in the U.S. and Canada. It redefines regional dialects of American English on the basis of sound changes active in the 1990s.

Oxford Premium Reference: The following full text titles have been added to Milner's subscription:
  • Black Women in America
  • Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
  • Encyclopedia of Rhetoric < />
  • Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th Ed.
  • Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
  • Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
  • Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
  • International Encyclopedia of Dance
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

February 2009

GeoScienceWorld: 
GeoScienceWorld is a collection of full text peer reviewed journals in the geosciences. Some of the titles in the collection are Clay Minerals, Geological Magazine,  Paleobiology and Seismological Society of America Journals. The complete list of titles is here.

ComAbstracts:
The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field as well as bibliographic records and audio materials.

ALA Guide to Reference:
Used internationally as the “source of first resort” for identifying local materials that answer users’ questions, train reference staff, develop reference collections, assist interlibrary loan staff, and serves as a gateway to the wider repertory of the reference literature.

ScienceDirect:
Milner has expanded coverage of over 90 Elsevier titles.  Access the most recent issues of Cognition, Journal of International Economics, the Lancet, and many more. Click here for the complete list of titles.

January 2009

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete:
Consisting of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series and the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series, the Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete features more than 143,000 comprehensive literary biographies. The biographies discuss lives and careers of authors, journalists, publishers and other literary figures.

Children's Literature Review:
Part of Literature Criticism Online, Children's Literature Review provides information and criticism of the most popular and influential authors of the genre. Find information on authors ranging from Louisa May Alcott to Robert A. Heinlein to Laura Ingalls Wilder.

IoPScience:
Access Institute of Physics journals on a new interface at IoPScience.  The new site has nearly twice as many journals as Milner's previous subscription.  Coverage of many of the journals goes back to volume 1.

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