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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.
- ebrary
June 11, 2013 9:00 AM
Ebrary contains full-text e-books covering a wide range of subjects, including business and economics, computers, technology and engineering, humanities, life and physical science, and social and behavioral sciences. Features -Browse for ebooks by subject area. -Search by keyword across the full text of the collection. -Print and copy limited portions of text from ebooks. -Download limited portions or entire books with a free personal account (NetID required). -Bookmark, highlight, and take notes with personal account.
- State Papers Online: Parts IV: The Stuarts, Foreign, 1603-1714
June 11, 2013 9:00 AM
We added Part IV, the Stuarts, Foriegn to this 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. In 2013 added Part IV, The Stuarts, Foreign, 1603-1714.
- American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922
June 05, 2013 9:00 AM
This is a fully searchable resource of over 25,000 pamphlets and other short works from the collections of the New York Historical Society spanning the varied history of the United States from the early republic through the 20th century. Key topics include politics, government, business, education, immigration, slavery, and gender issues.
- Educational Research Abstracts Online
June 05, 2013 9:00 AM
A search engine for locating more than 150,000 articles representing all the key areas of educational research, including international research. Each citation includes an abstract and links to full text if available. Individual journals may be browsed, or it is possible to search across all journals. Subjects include Vocational Education and Training, Special Educational Needs, Sociology of Education, Research into Higher Education, Multicultural Education, Educational Technology, and Educational Management.
- Chronicle of Philanthropy
May 29, 2013 9:00 AM
Provides news and information for fund raisers, professional employees of foundations, corporate grant makers and people who work for non-profit, tax-exempt organizations in health, education, religion, the arts, and social services. Features include lists of grants, fund-raising ideas and techniques, job announcements, statistics, reports on tax and court rulings, summaries of books, calendar of events, and an annual Philanthropy 400 ranking of charities.
- Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
May 28, 2013 9:00 AM
Database of theses and dissertations. OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 800 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.6 million theses and dissertations.
- American Film Scripts
May 23, 2013 9:00 AM
American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information which provides the ability to search by character, scene, race, nationality, age, subject, year of writing, and other elements. This collection was developed through arrangements with Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other major film studios; rights holders such as Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Putnam, and Vintage Anchor; and the writers themselves, including Paul Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others. In addition, the database includes facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online.
- Sustainable Organization Library
May 23, 2013 9:00 AM
Sustainable Organization Library (SOL) is a focused library of key texts (almost 400 volumes) in governance, sustainability and environmental management. SOL gives instant access to the world's best writers in the area; case studies on best practice from international organizations; evidence-based research and in-depth analysis from thinkers around the globe. Partner publishers included in SOL include Greenleaf Publishing, Practical Action Publishing, and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).
- Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949)
May 23, 2013 9:00 AM
The Journal Database for the Republican Period (1911-1949) covers over 20,000 journal titles. The journal database contains a mass of information on all aspects of life, including political, economic, military, social, and livelihood. It provides first-hand information to study the history of the Republic China.
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
April 25, 2013 9:00 AM
The DPLA brings together books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials from contributing universities, public libraries, museums and other public-spirited organizations in the United States that have digitized materials, in a single platform and portal, with the aim of providing open and coherent access to our society's digitized cultural heritage.
- Hein Online State Statutes Historical Archive
April 17, 2013 9:00 AM
The collection includes more than 1,600 volumes and nearly 2,000,000 pages of historical superseded state statutes (but not current state statutes) and offers a valuable source of information for legal researchers and scholars to understand the thinking and conditions of the creation of the historical statutes. Access superseded State Statutes for all fifty states; each state is verified against Pimsleur's Checklist of Basic American Legal Publications. Coverage goes as far back as 1717.
- Digital Commons Law Network
April 10, 2013 9:00 AM
Open Source Collection on institutional repositories from across the United States, including faculty scholarship, law review articles and conference proceedings. The network may be searched in specific areas of law, such as administrative law or constitutional law.
- Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
April 09, 2013 9:00 AM
The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
- Berman Jewish Policy Archive
April 09, 2013 9:00 AM
Open access to a growing library of thousands of policy-relevant documents about Jewish communal concerns, from significant authors, journals, and organizations. Includes over 40 years of SH'MA: A JOURNAL OF JEWISH RESPONSIBILITY, over 100 years of JOURNAL OF JEWISH COMMUNAL SERVICE, and the Leonard Fein collection. Browsable by topic, publisher, date, publication name, etc.; searchable by keyword and more. Registered users (free registration) can create their own saved bookshelf.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (1889-1995)
March 21, 2013 9:00 AM
Full text, fully searchable, of all issues of the Wall Street Journal for this time period.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1966)
March 20, 2013 9:00 AM
Full-text, fully-searchable, coverage of the New York Tribune, and its merged successor newspaper the New York Herald Tribune. NOTE: As of March 2013, only 1841-1962 is available. 1963-66 is coming after rights are secured.
- Encyclopedia of Materials - Science and Technology
March 20, 2013 9:00 AM
The Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology presents around 1,800 articles written by experts in their fields, resulting in a comprehensive coverage of this broad and wide-ranging subject. It is the only encyclopedia available that covers all of materials science and technology, focusing on the following areas: Functional Phenomena, Structural Phenomena, Fundamental Core Theory, Structural Materials, Polymers and Materials Chemistry, and Functional Materials.
- Canoonet: German Dictionaries and Grammar
March 20, 2013 9:00 AM
"Canoonet: German dictionaries and grammar" is an English-language site offering practical helps with German. Accessible via the sitemap (see link at the top of the splash page) are links to a number of online German dictionaries (not only German - German but also some relatively basic bilingual dictionaries -- e.g. German-English, German-French, German-Spanish, German-Chinese), a topically arranged basic grammar of modern German, and a set of German-language resources for correct spelling. Accessible from the splash page and -- with more options -- from the sitemap are search boxes enabling queries about individual German words. Accessible from the lower portion of the splash page is a link to a blog (Ask Dr. Bopp!) discussing problems of German grammar and usage. The site's German-language original is reached by clicking on the German flag visible in the upper portion of both the splash page and the sitemap.
- PAWAG: Poorly Attested Words in Ancient Greek
March 19, 2013 9:00 AM
PAWAG: Poorly Attested Words in Ancient Greek is an ongoing database of words in ancient Greek that are either only scantily attested (i.e. with one or few occurrences), inadequately attested (i.e.characterized by some sort of uncertainty), or in any case problematically attested, both from a formal and a semantic point of view. These are presented in the form of a dictionary with entries contributed by scholars at different universities. The entries consist of a headword (the word's form of reference), an English-language translation, a set of locations of the word's occurrence, a brief discussion, and brief, pertinent bibliography. As of late January 2013 there were 1604 separate entries. To search, click on "Database" in the menu at left. Headwords may be searched only in Greek. For this two options are available: either in the Greek alphabet (requires downloading of the SPIonic font; see "Fonts" in the menu at left) or in the form of Latin-alphabet transcription known as Beta code (on which see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_code), using diacritics. An alphabetical index in Beta code at the bottom of the search form enables one to search for entries according to the initial letter of their headword.
- Election Ephemera Collections (Russia/Belarus)
March 19, 2013 9:00 AM
Collections of election related ephemera gathered during the 2010 Presidential Election in Belarus, the 2011 Russian Federation Duma election and the 2012 Russian Federation Presidential election.
