Database News for February, 2003

The Libraries have acquired a subscription to an exciting collection of online journals. Project MUSE offers nearly 200 quality journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, such as Johns Hopkins University Press, Duke University Press, and University of Hawii Press. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Some of the titles included in Project MUSE are:

Formed in 1916, the Conference Board creates and disseminates knowledge about management and the marketplace to help businesses strengthen their performance and better serve society. Their research database includes asearchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. The Conference Board's proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, human resources, productivity, CRM and more. The Economics section offers topline US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.

This month, you can try out several exciting new databases that offer unparalleled access to source documents on the nineteenth century. During February, the Libraries are conducting trials of:

• 19th Century Masterfile
  • An index to nineteenth-century periodicals, newspapers, and government documents
    
    
• The Nation Digital Archive
  • The fullly searchable text of the news and opinion weekly, back to 1865.
    
    
    
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
  • Important newspapers published from 1827 - 1902, including the North Star and Frederick Douglass' Paper.
    
    
• North American Women's Diaries and Letters, Colonial to 1950
  • Hundreds of published and previously unpublished writings, searchable by criteria such as historical time period, life event, geographical location, ethnicity, etc.

   

Find out more about these and other current trial databases on our trials page.

Moody's financial information service as become Mergent Online. The new Mergent interface offers several noteworthy enhancements:

• Enhanced Search Capabilities
  • Mergent Online has added more general company and financial variables to help you drill down your search.
• Enhanced Company Detail Section
  • Mergent Online has consolidated several features to provide easy access to all detailed company information, such as institutional holdings, insider transactions and more.
• 15 Years Of Financial Statements Now Available
  • Mergent has increased the number of financial years displayed for detailed perspective on a company's financial position.
• Enhanced Printing Capabilities Added
  • Mergent Company Reports may now be imported into Microsoft® Word (coming soon) or Adobe Acrobat® Reader for a polished, presentation quality look.
• Six New Pre-Defined Company Reports
  • Mergent has created six pre-defined company reports, each available in PDF, MS Word or MS Excel. Users may choose from these six options, or customize their own reports.
• Multiple-Company Reports Now Easy To Generate
  • Users now have the capability to generate reports reflecting multiple companies and specific data sections.