New Databases, Subject Guides and Other Resources

These are recent additions to the UW-Madison Libraries' Web site. You'll find new databases and other resources, upgrades to software such as search interfaces, and libraries with new Web sites. Items will be listed here for about five months.

August 15, 2006

• Legal Periodicals and Books Retrospective has recently been expanded to include materials back to 1908.

July 11, 2006

• CHANT (CHinese ANcient Texts) database

July 10, 2006

• ALIM: Archivio della Latinitá Italiana del Medioevo
• Mosby's Nursing Consult

June 26, 2006

• Historical Statistics of the United States (Millenial Edition Online)

June 23, 2006

• The Cochrane Library
• Middle English Compendium
• Pre-CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health), was previously searched together with CINAHL. It is now a separate entry.
• SPORTDiscus, has switched from being available via OVID to the EBSCO interface. It now covers sports-related materials back to 1800.

June 15, 2006

• Atlas of North American English
• DigiZeitschriften Das Deutsche Digitale Zeitschriftenarchiv
• INSPEC (Engineering) now has additional back-years of coverage. Previously INSPEC indexed articles from 1969 to the present. It now goes back to cover articles written between 1896 and the present.
• Mergent Online

June 2, 2006

• Abstracts in Anthropology

May 23, 2006

• MLA Bibliography now includes additional years of retrospective coverage, going back to 1926. Some JSTOR titles are indexed back to the 1880s.

May 11, 2006

• American Periodicals Series Online covers periodicals published in the United States from 1741-1900.
• Global Studies Resources
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: the Los Angeles Times (1881-1985)

May 8, 2006

• JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection has now been added to our JSTOR Journal Archive licensed titles. This group of titles as noted at: http://www.jstor.org/about/biosci.list.html will include at least one hundred journals when completed at the end of 2007. This collection brings together the twenty-nine journals available in the existing JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection with more than seventy titles new to JSTOR. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology.
• JSTOR Arts & Science Complement has also been added to the JSTOR collection. A list of titles in this addition is at: http://www.jstor.org/about/ascomp.list.html.

May 8, 2006

• Jewish Encyclopedia
• MRS Proceedings Library (Materials Research Society)

May 4, 2006

• ATLASerials (ATLA Religion Journals)
• Early Hebrew Newspapers Project
• Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts (in Hebrew or Aramaic)

April 13, 2006

• JNUL Digitized Book Repository (Jewish National and University Library)

April 5, 2006

• Yiddish Prints

March 28, 2006

• Climatological Data (NOAA) Publications

March 2, 2006

• American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices is a new, locally created resource from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center.
• Art Museum Image Gallery
• Liberation Journals Index