Ebsco offers trial of SAGE databases

EBSCO Publishing has purchased the rights to ten renowned print indexes from SAGE, processed the content for each index back to Volume 1 Issue 1, and made them available electronically via EBSCOhost. These are highly-refined, specialized collections in their subject areas. Trial access will continue until February 22.
The eleven indexes are:

Abstracts in Social Gerontology
Educational Administration Abstracts
Family Studies Abstracts
Human Resources Abstracts
Peace Research Abstracts
Public Administration Abstracts
Race Relations Abstracts
Shock & Vibration Digest
Urban Studies Abstracts
Violence & Abuse Abstracts

images.MD: The Online Encyclopedia of Medical Images

images.MD compiles over 70,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine Group LLC’s renowned series of illustrated atlases. images.MD has over 50,000 medical images from more than 90 collections and 2,000 contributors.

As a member of Dalhousie University, you have free access to full-sized, high quality images in step with the latest developments in medicine. By filling out a simple registration form, you can also start your own image library, create PowerPoint® presentations of images in your library, and order customized CD-ROMs of your favorite slides. Explore images.MD now!

Early English Books Online and the Text Creation Partnership

Users of Early English Books Online (EEBO) know that the database contains the full text of more than 100,000 English-language books printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. However, because much of this full-text material is presented in image file formats such as GIF, PDF, or TIFF, it is not fully keyword searchable. This is where the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) comes in. Dalhousie is a member of the TCP and has been contributing to a project that will eventually see 25,000 EEBO documents made available as completely searchable ASCII text. Users will be able to view both the transcribed text and the corresponding original page images. 11,500 documents have so far been "SGML encoded" by the TCP. The University of Michigan hosts a search interface where users can search this full-text segment of EEBO.

Try searching Early English Books Online at the Text Creation Partnership website.

Biological Abstracts changes search platform

In January 2008, the Dalhousie Libraries' subscription to Biological Abstracts was moved to the search interface provided by ISI, the Institute for Scientific Information. This gives Biological Abstracts the same look and feel as Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. Database content remains the same (coverage from 1926 onward).

Try the new interface for searching Biological Abstracts from ISI.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online (Trial)

Oxford Islamic Studies Online (OISO) offers unique and comprehensive online access to the history and culture of Islam and provides full-text access to great Oxford reference and scholarly works, including The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, two classic interpretations of the Qur'an, a Concordance of the Qur'an, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, and the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (due to publish in 2008). For the period of this trial, which ends on February 23, 2008, access to this database will be restricted to on-campus locations only. For information on other trials that we are hosting, please visit the Library's Trial Resources page.

Milton Bibliography Available Online

The online edition of the Milton Bibliography is a revision and a continuation of Milton: A Bibliography For the Years 1624-1700, published by Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (MRTS), Binghamton, New York, in 1984. The bibliography attempts to bring together all manuscripts and editions of John Milton’s works and all studies and critical statements concerning his life and works, all allusions and quotations, and all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799. No print counterpart for the entire database exists. This online tool is published by University of Toronto and made available as part of their Iter project, a not-for-profit partnership that aims to promote the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of online resources.

Ergonomics Abstracts

Ergonomics Abstracts is an international abstracting service, covering the world of ergonomics and human factors. Topics include Anthropometric Measurements, Design for the Elderly, Graphics Interfaces, Human Error, Manual Materials Handling, Mobile Computing, Posture Analysis, Public-Computer Interaction, Task Analysis, VDT Workstation Design, Virtual Reality, and Warning Label Effectiveness.

Ergonomics Abstracts can be searched for the period 1986-present but includes some pre-1986 material. There are currently 121,500 records in the database.

Project MUSE Adds Back Issues as part of Pilot Program

Project MUSE recently added the full range of back issues of two of its long-held journals, "Journal of the History of Philosophy" and "Journal of Democracy."

The addition of the back issues of these two journals is part of a pilot program to determine the feasibility of expanding coverage to include back issues. The pilot program is in the early stages and MUSE developers anticipate adding additional back issues for selected journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

For the "Journal of the History of Philosophy," the back issues added are Volume 1, 1963, through Volume 37, 1999. For the "Journal of Democracy," the back issues added are Volume 1, 1990, through Volume 5, 1994.

CBCA Complete

As of January 1, 2008, the Dalhousie Libraries have replaced the separate subscriptions to three CBCA databases (CBCA Business, CBCA Current Events, and CBCA Reference) with a single database: CBCA Complete.

CBCA Complete combines content from all four CBCA database subsets (the 4th is CBCA Education) and provides full-text coverage of current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus. Subject coverage is comprehensive and the information comes from the broadest range of Canadian sources available anywhere. With over 4.5 million records and indexing more than 1,600 periodical titles, CBCA Complete is the first stop for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf Series

Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance