These Formerly Print Titles are now Digital
- Whitakers Almanack. This annual almanac of facts and figures for the UK and worldwide, now in its 142nd edition, is now available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Whitakers has also been added to the Country facts & statistics section of the Library's Statistics Guide.
- Shakespeare Surveys. Now search this annual yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production, published since 1948, online. Each volume is devoted to a theme, play, or group of plays and contains a section of reviews on that year's critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The Surveys are also illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.The platform will look familiar since this new collection is on the same platform as Cambridge Collections Online.
- Short Story Index. Short Story Index locates nearly 100,000 works of short fiction in anthologies and periodicals by author, title, or subject. Selected stories are available in full-text after 1994.
- Backfiles: Dictionary of Literary Biography. The Library has been able to increase its holding of the DLB and now offers the full collection online.
- Lexis Nexis Academic has moved to a new interface. Lexis-Nexis-supplied information is here.
- ICPSR Renewed. The Library will continue to subscribe to ICPSR, offering manipulable raw Social Science data. Note that if you want to be able to download data, you need sign up for the free registration on the Library's ICPSR site from an on-campus computer. ICPSR stands for Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
Need ICPSR training? There will be training in the fall. Send Ellen.Metter(at)ucdenver.edu a note indicating your interest and I'll be sure to let you know of the fall training.
- JSTOR Arts & Sciences VIII. The Library will be adding this new collection to the existing JSTOR suite. This purchase will add an additional 140 journal titles to JSTOR by 2011.
Other New Databases
- Naxos Music Library. Naxos Music Library (NML) is an online music library offering streaming access to classical, jazz and world music labels including BIS, Chandos, CPO, Haenssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Vanguard Classics, VOX, Naxos, ARC, Celestial Harmonies and others. There is also film music, nostalgia, classic and contemporary rock content as well as spoken word (radio shows), amazing nature sounds (see the classical genre list) such as elephant seals, penguins and larks, and resources such as graded music exam playlists.
- Counseling & Therapy in Video. An online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
- Wiley Online Library. Full-text journals in multiple disciplines.
- International Index to Music Periodicals. A music journal resource with hundreds of thousands of indexed articles, detailed abstracts and full text content from both scholarly and popular sources.
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