Database News for December 2003

You can now search almost 100 years' worth of magazine articles through Reader's Guide Retrospective. Covering more than 350 popular periodicals such as Atlantic Monthly, Time, National Review, Look, Life, and Saturday Evening Post, the Reader's Guide indexes articles published from 1890 to 1980. Thousands of topics, events, and personalities are indexed, including:

From citations in Reader's Guide, you can check InfoLinks, the library catalog, to locate paper or microfilm copies of magazines available in the library or, in some cases, online.

During December, try out two new resources from Oxford University Press:

Oxford Scholarship Online
The full-text of more than 700 books from the Oxford University Press in four subject modules – Philosophy, Religion, Economics and Finance, and Political Science. A list of current titles is available online.

Oxford Reference Online
Brings together more than 120 language and subject reference works -- such as companions to literature, scientific handbooks, and English-language grammars and dictionaries -- into a single cross-searchable resource. You can access a comprehensive and growing collection of Oxford's acclaimed reference titles without leaving your desk.

Trials end on December 18th. You can learn more about the Oxford University Press databases on our trials page.

Users now have many more powerful searching options in Early English Books Online (EEBO). EEBO contains all printed books and pamphlets in English from the first book by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. When complete, EEBO will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement - all in full digital facsimile from the Early English Books microfilm collection.

New features include:

• right truncation with the * asterisk symbol
• proximity searching with NEAR and FBY (followed by)
• ability to browse and search terms from author, title, and subject indexes
• search across multiple fields in one step (no longer need to ADD to a query)
• search for particular kinds of illustrations
• mark all records on a page
• number of pages shown in each document on the browse screen
• download citations in ProCite and EndNote formats
• make durable links to documents for course reserves, class web pages, etc.
• navigate and manipulate document images more easily.
• view and combine previous searches

Through the EEBO Text Creation Partnership, fully-searchable text is being added to the page images. (The University Libraries do not yet subscribe to the Text Creation Partnership database). Learn more about new EEBO features through the online demo.