In case you hadn't heard, the following are some of the new online resources we've acquired over the past year. Most are available through our DATABASES A-Z link.
Education Source: combines several education databases; includes full text.
LGBT Thought and Culture: full text of approximately 100,000 pages of archival material, personal papers, periodicals, letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera documenting the history of the LGBT movement.
Points of View Reference Center: contains resources that present multiple sides of controversial issues.
PsycTESTS: provides access to pyschological test, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments, primarily unpublished. About 76% of test records contain the actual test or test items.
World News Connect Archive: provides access to over 1 million foreign newspaper articles, broadcast transcripts, and datelines; includes English translations within 24-72 hours of original publication and broadcast.
Historical Resources
American Civil War Collection, 1860-1922: more than 13,500 works; from the American Antiquarian Society.
American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922: over 3,500 works published; from the Americna Antiquarian Society.
Early American Imprints, series 1-2, 1639-1800; series 2, 1801-1819: online version of virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period.
Early American Newspapers, series 10, (1730-1900): with series 1-9, completes the full collection, 1690-1922
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1688-1899: most detailed primary source for 18th century Britain, its colonies, and the wider world.
Reference Resources
Birds of North American Online
Global Plants: features more than 2 million high resolution plant type specimen images and other foundational materials from the collections of hundreds of herbaria around the world.
E-Books
ASCE e-Books package: 300 titles plus new titles to be published in 2014
GEOSCIWORLD E-Books: 1,072 earth science titles dating from 1926-2014
ICE Structures and Building eBooks Collection: Collection of titles from the development of civil engineering in the eighteenth century to the current day; ICE (The Institution of Civil Engineers).