Archive for the ‘Humanities’ Category

Naxos Music Library

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

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The Naxos Music Library provides streaming audio access to over 170,000 tracks of music, including the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues and other licensed independent labels. Genres include classical music, historical recordings, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music.

Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000 - CD-ROM

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States: 2000 is the latest in a series of every-10-year studies conducted at the same time as the U.S. census. Like all previous reports in this series of studies on U.S. religious affiliation, data are reported by region, state and county.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

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This thoroughly revised and updated resource, including thirty years of new data and scholarship, is available online and in a five-volume print version. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.

Film & Television Literature Index

Monday, August 28th, 2006

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Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Friday, July 28th, 2006

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An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain’s past. Replaces and extends the original Dictionary of National Biography. This edition includes re-written biographies of all subjects included in the Victorian DNB as well as 16,500 biographies of new subjects from all periods.

Provided by the Katharine Otis and Bruce Oswald Hunt Biography Collection endowment.

Web of Science (ISI Citation Databases)

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

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The Library’s subscription to Web of Science has been expanded. The following dates are now available for each of the component databases that make up Web of Science:

Science Citation Index Expanded 1900 - present
Social Sciences Citation Index 1956 - present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975 - present