Database News for September 2004

When complete, the new Black Thought and Culture database from Alexander Street Press will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art. The collection begins with the works of Frederick Douglass and is targeted to include the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Mary McLeod Bethune, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Bunche, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Houston Baker, Jesse Jackson, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, and many others.

You can search or browse by author, title, subject, year, topic, historical event, or by keyword in full text. View titles currently available.

The University Libraries are pleased to offer Classical Music Library, an exciting new resource that allows students to listen to classical and film music from any computer with an Internet connection. Classical Music Library offers:

• 35,000-plus classical music tracks from labels such as EMI, Hyperion, BMG Classics, and 30 other publishers
• 2,000 new tracks added each month
• 1000s of program notes and 100s of music playlists
• ability to organize, create, save and share your own selections of music
• recordings benchmarked against the Music Library Association A Basic Music Library guidelines
• direct links to New Grove Dictionary of Music
• ability to place static URLs in online teaching resources to link to specified recordings

Check out Classical Music Library today and enjoy features such as "Composer of the Week" and recommended recordings. Browse or search by composer, time period, type of composition, instrument, ensemble, conductor, or music label.

InfoLinks, the library catalog, has long offered you the ability to renew books, place holds, and see items checked out to you. Now, by logging into "My Library" in InfoLinks, you can also save searches to be re-run periodically as well as receive email alerts to new items in your research area.

Questions about "My Library" or InfoLinks? Contact the Reference Department or visit our help pages.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories in the fields of public affairs, political issues, government, international relations, and other subjects. The new PAIS Archive offers more than 700,000 records in all languages, covering 1915 - 1976. The PAIS Archive is complemented by PAIS International, which continues the publication to the present day.

RefWorKs has a new, streamlined look in patriotic red, white, and blue. Users will enjoy a cleaner workspace, with drop-down menus for importing and exporting records, searching your database, and creating bibliographies and footnotes.

New to RefWorks? RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing your papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

To get started with RefWorks, consult our online guides, stop by the Reference Desk, or contact your subject librarian for a training session.

The MLA International Bibliography, the comprehensive source for literary criticism, linguistics, and cultural studies, is now available on the popular Ebsco platform. Users can search the MLA database, which indexes journal articles, dissertations, and books back to 1963 just as before -- with the added benefit of linked full-text articles from more than 500 indexed journals in Ebsco, Project Muse, and JSTOR.

The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. This information has been gathered by the MLA staff with the cooperation of MLA bibliographers and the editors represented in these listings. Over 7,100 titles are included; of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission deadlines.

INSPEC, the core database for physics, electrical engineering, and related fields, is now on the Engineering Information / Engineering Village platform. Here, you can search INSPEC together with 120+ years of the Compendex Engineering Index. Some of the features of Engineering Village that INSPEC searchers will enjoy include:

• quick links to the UA online catalog and ILLiad interlibrary loan system
• direct export to the RefWorks bibliography manager program
• saved searches and email alerts
• links to full text articles and conference proceedings in IEEExplore

The University Libraries are launching a new electronic reserves (e-reserves) services this fall. With e-reserves, instructors can direct students to course readings online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Within copyright guidelines, Reserves staff can place course syllabi, example sets and tests, or even scanned journal articles or book chapters online for your class.To learn more about e-reserves, contact the Reserves staff at reserves@uark.edu.

Instructors can also link to specific articles in Ebsco, ProQuest, and other library databases from their course web pages or WebCT and BlackBoard modules. For help with article linking, visit our instruction page or contact the Electronic Resources Librarian.