September 12, 2007
Archives & Rare Books Catalog
Archival research at UM is becoming a little bit easier. On Monday, September 17, Mirlyn will include a new combined catalog of archival holdings and other rare materials on the Flint and Ann Arbor campuses, and is titled Archives & Rare Books.
This new catalog covers the holdings of the Genesee Historical Collections Center (the official name of the UM-Flint Archives), the Bentley Historical Library, the Clements Library, and the Special Collections Library on the Ann Arbor campus, as well as relevant collections of several other Ann Arbor libraries. The Archives & Rare Books catalog can be found by clicking "Find Other Library Catalogs" in Mirlyn, or take a sneak peak..
If you have questions or comments, please feel free to contact Paul Streby.
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June 27, 2007
Choice Reviews Online
The Thompson Library now has links to Choice Reviews Online, the searchable, web-based version of the magazine Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. It contains reviews of academic books, websites, and other resources, along with information about the user level. Librarians and departmental faculty can use this in selecting materials to order for the collection.
Look for Choice Reviews Online on the (reorganized) page of links for faculty, and on the alphabetical list of databases.
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June 05, 2007
PILOTS Database
The Thompson Library now has access to the PILOTS Database (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress), published by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and hosted by CSA Illumina. With 31,000 citations dating back to 1871**, links to Journal Finder, and monthly updates, this is a go-to source for research on post-traumatic stress disorder and similar conditions.
Aside from PTSD, PILOTS covers "acute stress disorder (with or without reference to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders); the assessment, description, prevention, or treatment of any psychiatric disorder, especially dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder), other dissociative disorders, or borderline personality disorder, associated etiologically or epidemiologically with exposure to a traumatic event, or to an event experienced as traumatic by the population under discussion; the preparation or provision of mental health services to a traumatized population or a population at risk of experiencing traumatic events issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations." [Source]
** The earliest article in PILOTS is "On irritable heart; a clinical study of a form of functional cardiac disorder and its consequences" by J.M. DaCosta that appeared in the January, 1871 American Journal of the Medical Sciences (61:121, 17-52), and which concerned Civil War veterans. Read the article.
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January 15, 2007
Black Studies Center
The Black Studies Center is now available with "essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself." It contains citations, articles, images, film clips, and other materials from the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience; International Index to Black Periodicals; The Chicago Defender; ProQuest Dissertations for Black Studies (1970-2004); Black Literature Index (1827-1940).
This new resource can be found on the History and American Culture resource pages.
More information is available on the Black Study Center's information page.
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January 10, 2007
Business Source Complete
[UPDATE: The links to these databases were not working for off-campus users. I fixed them and they should work now. --Paul Streby, Thompson Library Webmaster]
The Thompson Library is pleased to add EBSCO's Business Source Complete full text database, along with its companion, Regional Business News. They are both available on the Business & Management Online Resources page, and will replace the ABI/INFORM databases when our licesnse expires in June.
Business Source Complete boasts over 3,000 journal titles dating back as far as 1886. Regional Business News contains 75 business-related journals, newspapers and newswires across the country.
Need some scholarly articles about debt restructuring? Wonder what Pabst Brewing Co. is doing to revive its Schlitz brand? Want to find out what a Harvard Business Review author had to say about the 1929 Stock Market Crash - in 1930?
Go to Business Source Complete!
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September 12, 2006
E&E News Sources
The Thompson Library now has several databases provided by E&E Publishing related to energy and environmental policy:
Greenwire contains reports on national environmental, energy and natural resources issues as they are addressed by the White House, federal agencies, courts, states and major media across the country. Users can sign up for daily email alerts of important news stories.
Environment & Energy Daily tracks legislative action on environmental, energy and natural resources issues. Covers Congressional appropriations, hearings, markups, bill introductions, floor actions, and more. Users can sign up for daily email alerts of important news stories.
Land Letter provides weekly in-depth focus on the latest developments in regulation, litigation, legislation, and other action surrounding natural resources issues such as public lands, forests, recreation, endangered species, fisheries, timber, mining, and more.
E&E News PM provides readers with all the late-breaking news from Capitol Hill, including schedule changes, markup and floor vote results, new bills and amendments and insight into emerging political issues. Updated at 4:30 p.m.
E&E TV News is a daily Webcast designed for energy and environmental policy professionals, broadcast in high-quality Flash video from Capitol Hill studio headquarters. Includes:
- OnPoint is a 15-minute interview program broadcast every day at 10:00 a.m., featuring top energy and environment professionals. Previous OnPoint interviewees include Cabinet officials, governors, agency directors, members of Congress, top lobbyists, and academic experts.
- E&ETV News Afternoon Update is broadcast at 4:30 p.m.
- E&ETV Breaking News is a broadcast of breaking news as events warrant.
E&E news sources are linked on the library’s Earth & Resource Science, Political Science, Public Administration pages, as well as on the alphabetical lists of periodical indexes, or take a preview at http://libproxy.umflint.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.eenews.net/.
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March 26, 2006
Two new resources for March
Call it March Madness. Call it Spring Surprise. Call it whatever you want, as long as you check out these two databases we've added:
- Global Market Information Database
This business database offers extensive industry, demographic, consumer, and economic data for numerous countries worldwide. It includes forecast data to 2010, market data for 330 consumer products in 49 countries, data on 100,000 brands, and full text market analysis reports. - Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
This free database is provided by EBSCO, and has citations from the 1960s to the present, from 600 periodicals, as well as books, research reports, and proceedings.
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March 07, 2006
New databases in March
Here are the newest electronic resources in the Thompson Library:
- IBISWorld: In-depth reports of 650 key industries, including key statistics, market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, performance, key competitors, key factors, outlook
- SourceOECD: Online library of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD), containing the full-text of books, 24 periodicals, & the OECD statistical databases
- American Periodical Series: Full text from over 1,100 special interest & general magazines; literary & professional journals; children's & women's magazines; other historically significant periodicals from 1740 to 1900. The APS is also available in the Thompson Library's microfilm collection; check Mirlyn for availability of the microfilm.
- Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945: Searchable full text of over 4,700 book & journal titles from Europe and the English-speaking world, covering the years 1543-1945. Contains a total of over two million pages of writings on women, feminism, and anti-feminism.
- WorldCat Dissertations: Citations to over five million dissertations & theses, from all disciplines, held by OCLC member libraries, covering the late 18th century to the present. (UM-Flint master's theses are not included; they can be found in Mirlyn)
- National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism: Reports, articles, documents on terrorism, its social & political causes and effects; the development of anti-terror technologies; cyberterrorism. This is a free website, but access to some materials requires registration.
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