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New E-Resources - UW-Madison Libraries
New Databases, Subject Guides and Other Resources. These are recent additions to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries' Web site. You'll find new databases and other resources, and upgrades to software such as search interfaces.
- Moving Image Archive
May 16, 2012 9:00 AM
This is Internet Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Broad subject coverage includes: art, music, news, science, sports, cartoons, animation, advertising, trade films and many other genres.
- EBR : Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception
May 11, 2012 9:00 AM
"EBR offers a comprehensive and in-depth rendering of the current state of knowledge on the origins and development of the Bible according to its different canonic forms in Judaism and Christianity. At the same time, EBR also documents the history of the Bible's reception in Judaism and Christianity as evident in exegetical literature, theological and philosophical writings of various genres, literature, liturgy, music, the visual arts, dance, and film, as well as in Islam and other religious traditions and contemporary movements."--Publisher's website.
- Brill's New Pauly
May 04, 2012 9:00 AM
Brill's New Pauly is the English-language version of a major authoritative encyclopedia, originally published in German, on practically all aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The bulk of its coverage is devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity, encompassing a span of more than two thousand years from the second millennium BCE to early medieval Europe. Special attention is given to interactions between Greco-Roman culture on the one hand, and, on the other, Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavic cultures. In addition to various forms of polytheism the treatment of ancient religion includes aspects of ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The coverage of the classical tradition deals with with the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretations and revaluations of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship. Many entries are accompanied by maps and illustrations.
- In Principio
April 26, 2012 9:00 AM
The incipit or first words of a work, by virtue of its invariability, is the identity card of a text. In medieval European library inventories, where attributions of authorship and title of a work were singularly unstable and where anonymous works abound, the citation of the first words of a text was already seen as one of the surest means to identify it. Enabling one to identify a particular text and at least some of the locations of its manuscript witnesses, In Principio is an ongoing guide to the incipits of Latin texts in all disciplines and from classical antiquity through to the Renaissance. Based on the cataloging of major manuscript repositories, it now (2012) has entries for over a million incipits and adds another 100,000 or so annually.
- 18thConnect: Eighteenth Century Scholarship Online
April 16, 2012 9:00 AM
18thConnect is an aggregator of digital resources that provide a comprehensive research environment for scholars working on the literature, history, the fine arts, and philosophy of the long eighteenth century (1660-1800). Use the "Advanced Search" for a browsable list of genres.
- Taxation & Economic Reform in America (Hein Online)
April 16, 2012 9:00 AM
United States regulations, laws and legislative histories relating to tax and to economic reform and stimulus plans. Includes the Carlton Fox legislative history collection and the History of United States Tax Conventions (Manz). Subscription includes parts I & II of the database.
- Playbill Vault
April 16, 2012 9:00 AM
PlaybillVault.com is a comprehensive database of Broadway history from Playbill Inc. The collection appears to feature all Broadway shows associated with Playbill, starting with the 1930-31 season, with daily updating. Clickable tabs divide the collection into six major areas: People, Shows, Theatres, Awards, Seasons, and Grosses. Users may browse Shows, People, or Theatres or search them individually (a prominently placed simple keyword search box is also available). Seasons provides basic information on a show, a synopsis, Playbill covers/inside pages, cast and production credits, links to other shows of the season, and even videos and websites, depending on the show. Grosses are also listed here, plus top/average ticket prices. The site is rich is photos, and response time is excellent.
- Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo (1898-1944)
April 16, 2012 9:00 AM
Taiwan nichinichi shinpo, daily newspaper, was published from 1898 to 1944 in Japanese along with Chinese text from 1905 to 1911. It is an official newspaper published by the Government-General of Taiwan yet one of the dispensable resources to know the condition of Taiwan for these years. The database provides both Chinese and Japanese interface.
- ZEFYS: Historische Zeitungen: Zeitungsinformationssystem
March 23, 2012 9:00 AM
Developed by the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), ZEFYS is the portal for accessing digitized German historical newspapers, as well as full-text and selected web resources and databases relevant to this publication type. Currently, it provides more than 81,000 issues of 86 historical newspapers originating from Germany and other countries publishing in German. It offers a full-text search in 3 newspapers of the Prussian Press, Amtspresse Preussens, and a comprehensive web guide for finding databases and information about newspapers on the web. A bibliographic search feature assists with finding international newspaper titles within the world's largest bibliographic database for serial titles, the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB).
- Comprehensive Nuclear Materials
March 23, 2012 9:00 AM
Discusses the major classes of materials suitable for usage in nuclear fission, fusion reactors and high power accelerators, and for diverse functions in fuels, cladding, moderator and control materials, structural, functional, and waste materials. Provides contemporary international research in nuclear materials, from Actinides to Zirconium alloys, from the worlds' leading scientists and engineers.
- RePORT (National Institutes of Health)
March 16, 2012 9:00 AM
RePORT is a web site providing one-stop access to a variety of NIH reports and reporting tools. One of these tools is the RePORTER system, which provides access to a database of NIH-funded research projects. In addition, RePORT provides access to the NIH Data Book, NIH strategic plans, NIH funding for various research, conditions, and disease areas, reports on the organizations and people involved in NIH research and research training, and other tools to make information on NIH-funded research readily available.
- Consumer Health Complete
March 06, 2012 8:00 AM
Covers areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
- Cairn (French)
March 06, 2012 8:00 AM
This journal database covers subjects in the humanities and social sciences, representing primarily French and Francophone scholarly publications. Since February 2006, the National Library of France has been involved with this project. UW-Madison library subscribes to Cairn's humanities and social sciences package which includes 218 journals, most with articles in French, but a few in English. Subject areas include law, economics, business, geography, history, literature and language, philosophy, psychology, communications, education, political science, and sociology. To use the Cairn database, stay on the homepage with the Revues tab highlighted. Type a keyword or words in the top box, or select journals by discipline or title. Please note: a few of the search results might not allow access, as the UW-Madison library does not subscribe to all of the journal titles included in Cairn.
- Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur
March 05, 2012 8:00 AM
This Danish-language guide to Danish literary authors offers multi-page entries on individual authors usually consisting of a brief overview, a biography, surveys of the author's literary activity, literary context, and reception, a selection of brief texts, and a bibliography section listing writings by the author and writings about her/him. It is searchable by author's name, by period, and by the titles of individual works when links to these (usually only short pieces or brief extracts) are present.
- US & Canadian Law Reviews (LexisNexis Academic)
February 23, 2012 8:00 AM
Full-text articles from over 500 law reviews and legal journals. 1980s to the present.
- Dustbooks eDirectories
February 23, 2012 8:00 AM
Includes four titles formerly available in print. These are: Small press record of books in print Directory of Poetry Publishers Directory of Small Press and Magazine Editors and Publishers International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses.
- Newspapers / Current Topics section of the Database Library
February 22, 2012 8:00 AM
This section of the Database Library has been revised and expanded. If you have web pages with links to any subcategories on this page, you should check that they still work and that they see the changes made.
- Web of Knowledge, Social Sciences Citation Index
February 22, 2012 8:00 AM
Social Sciences Citation Index, part of Web of Knowledge, now contains more years of coverage. It indexes from 1900 to the present.
- UbuWeb
February 16, 2012 8:00 AM
UbuWeb was founded in November of 1996, initially as a repository for visual, concrete and, later, sound poetry. Over the years, UbuWeb has embraced all forms of the avant-garde and beyond. This rich site has hundreds of recordings, videos, podcasts and television productions available. It is collaboratively edited and distributed.
- Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
February 13, 2012 8:00 AM
Based on the OED, the Historical Thesaurus of the OED (HTOED) contains almost every word in English from Old English to the present, allowing users to explore words connected in meaning throughout the history of the language. It is a semantic index to the contents of the OED, is searchable and also has a browsable taxonomic classification. The Historical Thesaurus is a unique resource for scholars researching linguistic and literary history, the history of the language, social history, and more, and is a complement to the OED itself, allowing the words in the OED to be cross-referenced and viewed in wholly new ways.
