Database News for January 2003
- AMICO ART Image Library
- EHRAF Ethnography and Archaeology Collections
- JSTOR adds Arts & Sciences II and General Science Collections
- CINAHL Moves to Ebsco
- FirstSearch adds Alternative Press Index Archive
- New Oxford English Dictionary Features
- New RefWorks Features
- New Compendex Interface
AMICO Art Image Library Now Available
The 2002 AMICO Library™ is a growing online collection of over 100,000 high-quality, digital documentation of works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art in AMICO Member collections, highlighting the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.
AMICO users can search by artist, medium, or keyword from title and description. Results can be saved in customized "briefcases" for future consultation.
Images in AMICO are intended for educational use (classroom instruction, class assignments, etc.). Information is provided for those who wish to seek permission for commercial use.
Types of Works:
- over 13,000 paintings
- over 5,900 sculptures
- over 13,700 drawings and watercolors
- over 23,800 prints
- over 29,000 photographs
- over 1,800 textiles
- over 1,600 costumes and jewelry
- over 9,800 works of decorative art
- over 1,200 books and manuscripts
Time Periods:
- over 2,500 works dated BC
- over 6,000 works dated between 0 and 1500 AD
- over 3,300 works dated between 1501 and 1600 AD over 5,000 works dated between 1601 and 1700 AD
- over 6,300 works dated between 1701 and 1800 AD
- over 20,000 works dated between 1801 and 1900 AD
- over 53,000 works dated between 1901 and the present
Cultures:
EHRAF Ethnography and Archaeology Collections
Founded in 1949
at Yale University, The Human Relations
Area Files, Inc.(HRAF) is an organization
that collects, indexes, and organizes books, book chapters, dissertations,
and other publications on all aspects of cultural anthropology.
The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a Web-based, multi-cultural database for disciplines with an interest in cultural diversity. eHRAF contains over 300,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life with diverse topics ranging from religious beliefs, bringing up children, causes and cures of diseases, to economic and political behavior. Cultures included are mostly ethnic and indigenous groups from around the world. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that all the full-text sources (books, articles, and dissertations) are numerically subject-indexed at the paragraph level to ensure precise retrieval of information.
It is important to note that cultures in the microfiche and electronic versions of the HRAF Collection of Ethnography are not covered in the same ways; the electronic versions include more recent source materials and not all the older sources are retained. The Libraries' collection of older HRAF materials on microfiche can be found in the Periodicals Room.
The eHRAF Collection of Archaeology is a Web-based, full-text database with information on prehistory of the world. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that all the full-text sources (books, articles, and dissertations) are numerically subject-indexed at the paragraph level to ensure precise retrieval of information. The eHRAF Collection of Archaeology provides researchers and students access to archaeological materials for comparative studies within and across regions. Archaeological traditions include "classics" such as the Maya in Mesoamerica and the Dawenkou in China.
JSTOR Adds Arts & Sciences II & General Science Collections
JSTOR is a collection
of core journals in the humanities, social science
s, sciences, and mathematics
digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. The University Libraries
have recently added subscripitios to the Arts & Sciences II and GeneralSciences
collections in JSTOR. These collections bring our JSTOR holdings to more than
200 core titles in humanities and history, biology, botany, economics, sociology,
and statistics.
Titles available as part of the Arts & Sciences II collection include:
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Titles in the General Science Collection are:
- Royal Society
of London titles:
- Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences
- Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
- Proceedings: Biological Sciences
- Proceedings: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Science
- Scientific Monthly
Note that most JSTOR titles are only digitized after an approximate five-year time lag so that journal issues available are not current.
CINAHL is now on Ebsco
CINAHL, the
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, is now 
available
on the Ebsco service. Through the Ebscointerface, users will be able to take
advantage of the sophisticated CINAHL thesaurus and MESH searching, as well
as links to full text articles in more than 4000 journals and periodicals
in other Ebsco databases. In addition, the Ebsco interface to CINAHL offers
an Interlibrary Loan link for those articles not available in our library.
FirstSearch adds Alternative Press Index Archive
Alternative
Press Index Archive covers more than 700 alternative newspapers, magazines,
and periodicals published from 1969 to 1990 and is intended to 
complement
the current Alternative Press Index, which covers articles published
from 1991 to the present. Both are great resources for coverage of topics
such as: anarchism, gay and lesbian issues, democracy, indigenous peoples,
ecology, labor, economics, national liberation, feminism, and socialism in
the radical or liberal media.
Oxford English Dictionary adds New Features
Now you can
highlight a word from anywhere on the Internet, click on Search OED Online,
and have that entry pulled up right away! Visit the subscriber
services page and follow the instructions to add this nifty utility to
your browser toolbar. 
Keep up to date with the latest OED news by subscribing to their newsletter. Or browse their news archive page for fascinating stories on topics such as "Doh! Before Homer Simpson," "J.R.R. Tolkein and the OED," and "Nachos, Anyone?"
Search InfoLinks Directly From RefWorks
Now you can
search the InfoLinks Library Catalog (and hundreds of other library catalogs)
from within RefWorks, and inport your search results directly into your RefWorks
database.
The Search Online Databases function allows RefWorks users to search a wide variety of database resources through RefWorks using the RefWorks search interface. Searching this way also simplifies downloading records from outside sources into RefWorks.
This new function is accessible on the main RefWorks page by clicking on Search Online Databases in the Search Tools box. Presently, RefWorks users can use this function to search and retrieve records from PubMed and a variety of Z39.50-compatible resources, including the InfoLinks Catalog. Look for "Univeristy of Arkansas" in the database list.
Compendex gets a New Look
The new version
of Compendex, the comprehensive engineering database, offers several new
features, such as the ability to save searches, create search alerts on
current
topics of interest to you, and save results in multiple personal
folders online. The new version of Compendex also makes downloading results
easier.
