What's New

June 2009

Dance in Video

This new database from Alexander Street Press offers an online video collection of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century with selections covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental and improvisations dance. Content can be searched or browsed by composer, choreographer, genre, performer, ensemble, and role. Users can create and share playlists for course or individual use. (Webster/Eden only)

April 2009

Life Photo Archive

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/

Photographs from Life magazine's photo archive hosted on Google. Browse photos arranged by decade or search by keywords.

English-Zone.Com

http://www.english-zone.com/

Site for English learners organized by zones covering grammar, reading, verbs, basic skills, fun stuff, pronunciation, idioms and more.

Online Resources for Writers (Amherst College)

http://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/support/writingcenter/resourcesforwriters/

Gateway to resources at academic institutions and other sites that provide instruction in the writing process.

Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: Multi-media Archive

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/

This site directed by Stephen Railton and sponsored by the University of Virgina offers an archive of material concerning Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic American novel. Primary sources include texts, images, songs, 3-D objects, filmclips as well as scholarly essays and lesson plans for teachers and students.

FSI Language Courses

http://www.fsi-language-courses.com/

Offers language courses developed by the U.S. Foreign Service Institute with printed text books [PDF] and digitized audiotapes for over 30 languages including Arabic, Thai and Chinese.

January 2009

Ebook Search Express

Linked from our home page under Look for: eBooks, this new catalog search overlay limits keyword searches to our growing collection of over 19,000 full-text electronic books from NetLibrary, chapters from PsycBooks, reference books from the Gale Virtual Reference Library, and much more.

September 2008

TWST: The Wall Street Transcript

TWST provides a unique perspective through interviews with corporate CEOs, round table analysts, money managers and analysts familiar with all major investment sectors. Reports provide insights into management and company direction, exchanges between top research analysts in the sector, inside views of portfolio management professionals, and hundreds of reviews on niche sectors. (Webster/Eden only)

MRI+ / MRI Plus (a Mediamark Research & Intelligence database)

Based on MRI's Survey of the American Consumer, the Mediamark Reporter provides access to adult consumers' media choices, product usage, demographics, lifestyle and attitudes. The survey covers nearly 6,000 product and service brands across 550 categories and media usage including periodicals, Internet, TV, radio and out-of-home exposure. New Users: Mediamark provides a PowerPoint tutorial on How to Use MRI's University Reporter. (Webster/Eden only)

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance

This database covers all aspects of theatre and performance with indexing of over 60,000 journals, books, book articles, and dissertations of interest to theatre and dance students and professionals. IBTD offers over 140 full-text journals (such as Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more); and more than 300 full-text books & monographs (such as Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more). (Webster/Eden only)

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works

“...searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.” (publisher's description). Specialized features include the ability to search by symptoms or therapies. Reference works include various handbooks related to counseling and working with specific populations. (Webster/Eden only)

Tests in Print

Lists commercially available tests currently in print in the English language. Gives contact information for the publisher as well as basic information about the test's purpose, scoring, intended test population, administration, etc. Links to reviews in the Mental Measurements Yearbook database. (Webster/Eden only)

July 2008

50-State Agency Database Registry

http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases

Provides links to various databases created by agencies for each of the 50 U.S. states.

Education at a Glance (OECD)

http://www.oecd.org/document/30/0,3343,en_2825_495609_39251550_1_1_1_1,00.html

Comparative statistics on various aspects of education and training among OECD countries.

History of Psychology

http://academic.udayton.edu/gregelvers/hop/welcome.asp

Links to information on significant individuals in the field from all time periods.

The Literacy Web

http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/

Comprehensive site for literacy instruction, from early childhood through adult and ESL.

Measuring Up: the National Report Card on Higher Education

http://measuringup.highereducation.org/

Provides a national overview as well as evaluations on each of the 50 U.S. states on factors such as affordability, preparation, completion, etc.

The Men's Bibliography: a Comprehensive Bibliography of Writing on Men, Masculinities, Gender, and Sexualities

http://mensbiblio.xyonline.net/

References to books and articles on various issues including health, families, relationships, child and adolescent development, etc.

PsychScholar (Hanover College)

http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/

Links of interest to scholars, professionals, and students in the field. Information on careers, resources for the classroom, current research, etc. is included.

June 2008

Baldwin Library of Children's Literature: Digital Collection

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?c=juv

Digitized versions of books primarily published in Great Britain and the United States of America dating from the 1700s.

FOB: Firms Out of Business

http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/fob.cfm

“...a database of publishing, literary and other firms out of business.” (web site description). Also tries to indicate successor firms which may have taken over any intellectual property rights still in effect.

May 2008

OFFSTATS: Offical Statistics on the Web

http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/

"...free statistics from official sources on the web." (web site description) Browse by country, region, and subject.

China Travel (China National Tourism Administration)

http://en.cnta.gov.cn/

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation

http://www.law.conrnell.edu/citation/

A guide to legal citation from the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University Law School.

World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/en/

Health information available by country and a wealth of data and statistics.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

April 2008

Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984 (a Wilson database)

Indexes almost 600 international art publications covering 55 years of art journalism. A good resource to find “contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut, track a body of work of an artist or movement” as well as artist interviews, commentary, art reproductions and coverage of all art subjects in journals published from 1929 to 1984. (Webster/Eden only).

Artsearch

Search theatre job postings online. The library's print subscription to Artsearch:The National Employment Bulletin for the Arts (available on the library shelf) includes online access to job listings and various resources from Theatre Communications Group. (Requires login with Webster or Eden ID.)