New E-Resources

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.

Natural Standard
February 03, 2012 8:00 AM
Natural Standard provides high quality, evidence-based information on dietary supplements (including herbs, vitamins, and minerals), functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions.
Soviet Cinema: Archival Documents from RGALI, 1923-35
February 03, 2012 8:00 AM
The archive contains materials providing information on the activities of the Soviet film company Sovkino and its relations with various other companies in the film industry, both in the Soviet Union and abroad, between 1923 and 1935. This consists of material from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), Moscow. The documents in this collection cover the period when state monopoly control over the Soviet cinema industry - production, distribution and exhibition - was being established and this is why they cover a number of different organizations and institutions. They include minutes of board meetings and discussions of the major issues confronting the medium during a crucial period in its development. The subjects covered deal not only with internal organisational, thematic and ideological matters, but also with external trade relations.
Social Sciences Citation Index 1965-1981 via Web of Knowledge
February 02, 2012 8:00 AM
Additional years of coverage for Social Sciences Citation Index were added to Web of Knowledge to make it cover 1965 - present. Web of Knowledge is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data and author abstracts. Every item of significance is listed: articles, reviews, letters, notes, corrections, and editorials. In addition to access by author, title, and institution, it is also possible to search by cited authors and to find articles sharing one or more cited reference. It is possible to search the three databases independently or in any combination. Live links to electronic journals with full text are included for some publishers.
Grand Comics Database
January 23, 2012 8:00 AM
This fully searchable and sortable database includes information on creator credits, story details, and other information. It contains non-English language comics and English language comics. It is an index to printed comic books only. It was created by a nonprofit, Internet-based organization of international volunteers. Note that currently the GCD is effectively a database for comic books, rather than a database for comics, because it is limited to books and periodicals (of any size or binding) whose contents are 50 or more comics art. We are currently in the process of exploring how to add newspaper comics to our project, and other kinds of printed comics such as magazine cartoons may follow. At this time, web comics are outside of the Charter. This index contains many images of cover art. All cover images are copyrighted by their respective current copyright holders.
Simmons OneView
January 20, 2012 8:00 AM
Simmons OneView (formerly Simmons Choices 3) provides access to U.S. consumer data including demographics, psychographics, product usage, spending behavior and media habits. The data is compiled from the Simmons National Consumer Study which is conducted each year.
Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online
January 19, 2012 8:00 AM
The Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online (IED Online) reconstructs the lexicon for the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European. It is a rich and voluminous online reference source for historical and general linguists. Dictionaries can be cross-searched, with an advance search for each individual dictionary enabling the user to perform more complex research queries. Each entry is accompanied by grammatical info, meaning(s), etymological commentary, reconstructions, cognates and often extensive bibliographical information. New content will be added on an annual basis.
Book Citation Index
January 19, 2012 8:00 AM
As a part of Web of Science, Book Citation Index allows users to search seamlessly across books, journals and conference proceedings to find the information most relevant to their work within one platform. The Book Citation Index current indexes over 25,000 scholarly titles. 2005 to the present.
Sabin Americana, 1500 - 1926
January 10, 2012 8:00 AM
Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography (Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time), this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1476 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.
State Papers Online: Parts I, II and III: 1509-1714
January 05, 2012 8:00 AM
Parts II and III were added to this existing collection. State Papers Online, 1509-1714 is a collection of English government documents originating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the King or Queen acted as Prime Minister as well as Monarch. The papers feature the office archives and correspondence of the secretaries of state serving the Monarch as facsimile manuscript documents accessed directly or via the fully searchable Calendar entries (abstracts or transcriptions). This collection contains information on every facet of English government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions and intelligence gathering as well as Britain's international relations and foreign policy. Part I: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic contains 380,000 facsimile manuscript documents linked to fully-searchable Calendar entries, Part I delivers the complete collection of State Papers Domestic for this era. In 2012 added Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders,Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council. And added: Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic
ProQuest Statistical Datasets
January 05, 2012 8:00 AM
Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Dates vary, 1930-ish to present.
ProQuest Legislative Insight
January 04, 2012 8:00 AM
Legislative Insight is comprised of fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. These include the full text of the Public Law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are Presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law.
CQ Almanac Online
January 04, 2012 8:00 AM
Coverage and analysis of U.S. congressional legislation from 1945 to today, including how bills are changed, derailed, or ultimately passed during an annual session of Congress. The CQ Almanac includes in-depth reporting, featuring analysis from authoritative, nonpartisan journalists. Special sections include Policy Tracker, which provides helpful quick links to hundreds of vital legislative topics, and Decades Pages, which allows browsing through an illustrated, linked chronology of key eras in U.S. political history.
Black Freedom (ProQuest History Vault)
January 04, 2012 8:00 AM
The ProQuest History Vault offers researchers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children, who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history. Module Two contains personal papers of African Americans and records of civil rights organizations: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), Mary McLeod Bethune Papers, Records of the National Association of Colored Womens Clubs (NACWC), Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Bayard Rustin Papers, and the Claude A. Barnett Papers.
Getty Provenance Index Databases
December 29, 2011 8:00 AM
The Getty Provenance Index Databases currently contain 1.1 million records taken from source material such as archival inventories, auction catalogs, and dealer stock books. The five databases are: 1. Archival Inventories: Archival inventories are legal documents from private and public archives that list objects from a household. The inventories in this database list works of art from private collections in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and France from 1550 to 1840. 2. Sales Catalogs: Typically published by auction houses and dealers, sales catalogs list works of art for public auction. This database includes catalogs from major cities in Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia from 1650 to 1840. 3. Goupil and Cie Stock Bonds: Maintained by galleries and art dealers, stock books record information about a work of art. This database contains records transcribed from the 15 stock books of Goupil and Cie/Boussod, Valadon and Cie. 4. Payments to Artists: This database contains approximately 1,000 recorded payments to artists made in Rome between 1576 and 1711. 5. Public Collections: This database contains descriptions and provenances of paintings created by artists born before 1900 held by public institutions in Great Britain and the United States.
Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories
December 29, 2011 8:00 AM
This rich database drawn from documents in the Amsterdam City Archives provides detailed information on ownership of works of art in the Dutch Golden Age. Compiled by late Yale University Professor John Michael Montias, it contains information from 1,280 inventories of goods (paintings, prints, sculpture, furniture, etc.) owned by people living in 17th century Amsterdam. Drawn from the Gemeentearchief (now known as the Stadsarchief), the actual dates of the inventories range from 1597-1681. Nearly half of the inventories were made by the Orphan Chamber for auction purposes, while almost as many were notarial death inventories for estate purposes. The remainder were bankruptcy inventories. The database includes detailed information on the 51,071 individual works of art listed in the inventories. Searches may be performed on specific artists, types of objects (painting, prints, drawings), subject matter etc. There is also extensive information on the owners, as well as on buyers and prices paid when the goods were actually in a sale. While not a complete record of all inventories in Amsterdam during this time period, the database contains a wealth of information that can elucidate patterns of buying, selling, inventorying and collecting art in Holland during the Dutch Golden Age.
Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
December 29, 2011 8:00 AM
The Directory is a pioneering resource created by the Center of the History of Collecting in America. Its purpose is to help researchers locate primary source material about American collectors, dealers, agents and advisors, and the repositories that hold these records. Archives related to American collectors of the fine and decorative arts, including antiquities and non-Western art are included. The Directory serves an international community of museum, academic and other art professionals, most notably those seeking to chronicle the history of collecting in America. Each record provides information about specific archival collections, their location, content when available, links, and contact information. The periods of collecting activity covered by the Directory depends upon the existence of subject archives and the availability of information.
Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance
December 29, 2011 8:00 AM
The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance is an interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the classical tradition, a focus of Renaissance studies. Registered are the antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in the form of texts and images, and related information about locations, persons and periods as well as bibliographic data. Among the written sources are inventories of collections, travelogues, archival documents, biographies of artists etc. Information on pictorial sources includes drawings from sketchbooks as well as single sheets and graphic arts. Only a limited range of paintings, sculptures, medals and works of arts and crafts can be found. The Census is a useful tool of research, not only in the field of art history and archaeology, but also for any discipline focussing on the afterlife of the antiquity.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
December 21, 2011 8:00 AM
Languages available: French-English; English-French Currently featuring over 550,000 translations from the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary, Fourth Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing resources, cultural information. German-English; English-German Currently featuring over 520,000 translations from the Oxford German Dictionary, Third Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing information, cultural information, etc. Italian-English; English-Italian Currently featuring over 450,000 translations from the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary, Second Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing information, and cultural information. Spanish-English; English-Spanish Currently featuring over 500,000 translations from the Oxford Spanish Dictionary, Fourth Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing information, and cultural information. Chinese-English; English-Chinese Currently featuring over 130,000 translations from the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary, Third Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing information, and cultural information. Russian-English; English-Russian Currently featuring over 290,000 translations from the Oxford Russian Dictionary, Fourth Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing information, and cultural information.
Media History Digital Library
December 21, 2011 8:00 AM
We are a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals such as trade papers and fan magazines that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. We have currently scanned over 200,000 pages, and that number is growing.
AccessMedicine
December 16, 2011 7:00 AM
AccessMedicine provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than 60 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images, interactive self-assessment, Custom Curriculum, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device.

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