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MLA International Bibliography an essential database for anyone conducting research in the fields of literature and language, MLA International Bibliography indexes scholarly articles, journals, books and dissertations covering topics in literature, modern languages, linguistics, folklore, and dramatic arts as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. The indexed materials coverage is international in scope and coverage is from 1926 to the present. 

MLA International Bibliography is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and some of its key features include:

  • 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers
  • Links to full text from almost 60 titles in JSTOR's language and literature collection.
  • MLA Directory of Periodicals with detailed information on over 7,100 journals.
  • Fully searchable "Names and Subjects" and "Thesaurus" features to assist in more effectively searching the database.

For further help or questions about the MLA Bibliography and other resources in language and literature, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.



ARTstor contains over 500,000 high-quality images in a number of disciplines for use in research and teaching.

  • Contains over 500,000 images drawn from museums, photo archives, and other collections
  • Includes images of architecture, paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, decorative art objects, designs, and archaeological and anthropological objects
  • Images span a wide range of cultures and time periods
  • ARTstor is not just for art-related disciplines: it can also be used by anthropologists, classicists, and historians, as well as scholars of American Studies, literature, music, and many other fields.
  • Browse ARTstor's content by collection, classification, or geography, or search by keyword, date, or geographic origin
  • Zoom in to see minute details
  • Print and save images, create groups of images to use again, and organize image groups into folders to share among your colleagues.

For further help or questions about ARTstor and other resources in the arts, please contact Lisa Zeidenberg, Research and Instruction Librarian, lzeidenb@brandeis.edu, x64697.



LTS is pleased to offer ebrary, a new collection of approximately 40,000 electronic books with full-text searching across the collection. Using ebrary, it is possible to create persistent links to individual titles, chapters and pages. You can also create an ebrary account and save titles or chapters to your own personal ebrary bookshelf, adding highlights and notes.

Try it at: site.ebrary.com/lib/brandeis

Off-campus at: http://resources.library.brandeis.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/brandeis

Also find the ebrary e-book collection on Brandeis Scholar in the Most Popular Databases box: scholar.brandeis.edu

If you have questions about ebrary, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu or 6-INFO. For technical issues, contact e-resources@brandeis.edu



The world’s largest classical music listening service with over 300,000 tracks, the Naxos Music Library lets you listen to streaming audio from any computer on the Internet. 

  • World’s largest Classical music listening service: listen to streaming audio from any computer connected to the Internet

     

  • Provides access to a much larger collection of recordings than any single library could contain

     

  • Over 299,000 tracks of music and continually growing; collection is benchmarked against the development suggestions outlined in the Music Library Association’s A Basic Music Library.

     

  • Instructors can create playlists to be used by students in the classroom 

     

  • Genres include Classical, Contemporary Jazz, World/Folk, Contemporary Instrumental, Chinese Music, and Pop & Rock 

     

  • Simple and advanced searching, common (non-proprietary) software requirements, and extensive background information including complete, searchable liner notes.

     

  • Browse by all categories of music by genre from A-Z; browse Classical Music genre by category and then alphabetically (for example, browse for individual composers by their last names).

     

  • Sophisticated advanced search allows you to refine by genre and music categories, composer/arranger/lyricist, historical period, country and/or year of composition

     

  • Composer entries include biographies and information about their works

     

  • Includes educational materials for adults and for kids as well as glossary, pronunciation guide, opera synopses and libretti, audiobook transcriptions, and definitions of musical terms

     

For further help or questions about Naxos Music Library and other resources in music, please contact Lisa Zeidenberg, Research and Instruction Librarian, lzeidenb@brandeis.edu, x64697.



LexisNexis Congressional Hearings and Research Digital Collections offers complete, searchable access to full-text congressional hearings and reports.

The Brandeis community now has access to an amazing digital collection of the nation's Congressional documents offered by LTS. This major new resource benefits virtually every teaching and research discipline, since congressional publications have dealt with every issue faced by the country, including science, social policy, health and medicine, business and economics, education, the arts, and much more. Now you have searchable full-text access to the following documents right from your workstation, at any time of day or night, from on or off-campus:

  • Full text Hearings eventually dating back to 1824
  • Meticulously researched Committee Prints or research studies from 1830
  • Concise Congressional Research Service reports from 1916
  • Full text bills
  • Debates from the Congressional Record

These government documents give us access to oral and written testimony from expert witnesses and other citizens, interrogation from our legislators, valuable insertions (letters, articles, papers) provided by witnesses, and legislative intent or legislative histories: what is behind our nation's laws?

For further help or questions about LexisNexis Congressional Hearings and Digital Collections, please contact Ralph Szymczak, Reference Librarian, szymczak@brandeis.edu, x64673.



Find thousands of archival resources and collections with ArchiveGrid.

Want to find out where the historical documents, original manuscripts, and personal papers related to your research are held? ArchiveGrid can help you. Thousands of archives, libraries, and museums around the world contribute their collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. A simple search will give you a list of repositories that hold unique collections relevant to your research and information about their holdings.

  • Indexes and provides access to over 700,000 records and nearly 30,000 collection finding guides for archival resources.
  • Easy search of primary-source repositories
  • Thousands of repositories worldwide
  • Collections and content information

For more information about ArchiveGrid and other resources in Archives & Special Collections, please contact the Archives & Special Collections Department, ascdepartment@brandeis.edu, x64686.



Are you interested in keeping up-to-date with the latest news, information, and trends in Higher Education? If so, check out the online version of the Chronicle of Higher Education, available to the Brandeis community through a subscription purchased by LTS. The online version of the Chronicle is published every weekday and features the complete contents of the latest print issue plus more.

  • Topics include faculty, students, research & books, government & politics, money & management, surveys & data, careers, information technology, international news, athletics, and more.
  • Articles published since September 1989
  • Daily news, commentary, advice columns, reviews, discussion forums, and multimedia
  • Job listings and career building tools such as online CV management and salary databases

For further help or questions about the Chronicle of Higher Education and other resources in Education, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.



Web of Knowledge is an essential citation database with multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Web of Knowledge includes Web of Science, MEDLINE, and Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

  • Simultaneously or selectively search Web of Science and MEDLINE.
  • Conduct powerful cited reference searching to identify additional research.
  • Analyze search results to identify research trends and patterns.
  • Easy, direct download to EndNote, RefWorks, and other reference software.
  • Customizable features include ability to save and run searches, create alerts and RSS feeds. 


For more information about Web of Knowledge, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.


PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES are two essential databases for research in psychology, behavioral sciences, and social sciences.

PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES cover over a century of peer-reviewed psychology literature as indexed by the American Psychological Association (APA), including abstracts of scholarly journal articles, full-text scholarly and scientific articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Updated weekly.

PsycINFO

  • Contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating back to the early 1800s
  • Journal coverage spans from 1887 to present
  • References to more than 2,200 peer-reviewed journals
  • Citations to books, book chapters and dissertations
  • Full-text articles from 63 journals back to 1894

PsycARTICLES

  • Can be searched separately or together with PsycINFO
  • Contains more than 134,000 articles from 66 journals published by the APA
  • Coverage from 1894 to present

For further help or questions about PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, and other resources in Psychology, please contact Katherine Button, Reference Librarian, button@brandeis.edu, x64729.



American Memory is a multimedia website that provides a gateway to over nine million digitized items significant in American history and culture, including manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, posters, ephemera, maps, books, and other material from the Library of Congress and other institutions. Browse topics such as religion, U.S. presidents, immigration, the environment, African American history, women's history, and many others, or browse collections by time period, place, or type of material.

  • Many media types, available free and full-text online
  • Resources for students, historians, researchers, and teachers, including lesson plans
  • Unique primary-source documents on numerous subjects relevant to the culture and history of the United States

For more information about American Memory and other resources in Special Collections, please contact the Archives & Special Collections Department, ascdepartment@brandeis.edu, x64686.



Literature Online is a large, fully searchable library of more than 350,000 key literary texts, 190 leading literature journals and resources for over 16,000 authors. Some of its unique features include:

  • More than 170,000 literary texts published since 1900. Includes over 35,000 works by women and nearly 11,000 by African Americans.
  • Direct access to 339,000 works of poetry, more than 5,000 plays, and 2,250 novels and short stories.
  • "Poets on Screen" - nearly 900 video clips showing key modern poets reading contemporary and classic poems.
  • Easy access to leading literature journals such as Black Scholar, Diacritics, Studies in English Literature, Modern Fiction Studies and New Literary History.
  • A wealth of bibliographic information to support study and research in literature, including the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) from 1920 onwards, containing information on more than 880,000 journal articles, monographs, book reviews and doctoral dissertations.

Find Literature Online in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For further help or questions about Literature Online and other resources in English and American Literature, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.


ATLA Religion Database is an essential resource for anyone conducting research in religious studies, history, social sciences, and humanities. Compiled by the American Theological Library Association, this database covers information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives in social issues. Coverage spans from 1949 to the present.

  • Coverage includes: Bible, archaeology, and antiquities; human culture and society; church history, missions and ecumenism; pastoral ministry; world religions and religious studies; theology, philosophy and ethics
  • Contains more than 1.6 million bibliographic records in over 60 languages
  • Indexes journal articles (537,000+), book reviews (474,000+) and collections of essays in all fields of religion (225,000+)
  • Valuable for articles on all religions, including Judaism and Islam
  • Refine searches by scriptural verse, publication, and other index fields

Find the ATLA Religion Database in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about the ATLA Religion Database and other resources in Religious Studies, please contact Jim Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, rosenbloom@brandeis.edu, x64688.



Accessible Archives is an online database that offers searchable, full-text access to primary source materials from 18th and 19th century American newspapers, periodicals, and county histories providing firsthand knowledge about the critical periods of colonial America. Resources included are African American Newspapers: The 19th Century; The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective; The Charleston South Carolina Gazette; The Liberator; The Pennsylvania Gazette; The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue; The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record; American County Histories to 1900; and Godey's Lady Book.

Included are eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records which provide the opportunity for new insights into the course of American history. Accessible Archives is an important resource for anyone conducting research in American History, English and American Literature, African and Afro-American Studies, and the humanities.

Find Accessible Archives in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information or help with Accessible Archives, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu



ARTstor announces a collaboration with Magnum Photos which brings thousands of images by world-renowned photographers to the ARTstor platform. Founded shortly after World War II, Magnum Photos International is a cooperative owned by 80 leading documentary photographers, many of whose images have now become iconic representations of the defining moments in 20th century and contemporary life. These photos are relevant across the curriculum, ranging from arts to humanities to social sciences, and to all other areas of study impacted by the major world events and personalities who have shaped our lives. The 80,000 high-quality photographs in the Magnum Photos collection document industry, society and people, places of interest, politics, news events, disasters and conflict from the late 1930s to the present day. Discover the Magnum Photos collection in ARTstor.

Find ARTstor in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about ARTstor, please contact Lisa Zeidenberg, Research and Instruction Librarian, lzeidenb@brandeis.edu, x64697.



Cambridge Histories Online contains the complete set of histories published by Cambridge University Press, covering a wide variety of historical periods, topics and regions. This online resource offers easy, searchable access to the full text of over 250 authoritative volumes of the Cambridge History print editions published since 1960. Subjects include American and British History, Regional and World Histories, Economics, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Classics and more, for a total of 15 academic disciplines. Search across the database for multidisciplinary topics or browse by individual book.

A sampling of texts available through Cambridge Histories Online:

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations; The Cambridge Economic History of Europe; The Ancient, Medieval and Modern History series; The Cambridge History of American Literature; The Cambridge History of Political Thought; The Cambridge History of Judaism. Countries and regions include: Africa, China, Egypt, India, Iran, Japan, Latin America, Russia, Scandinavia, Turkey and more.

Find Cambridge Histories Online in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information on Cambridge Histories Online, please contact Judith Pinnolis, Research and Instruction Librarian, pinnolis@brandeis.edu, x64705.



Ethnic NewsWatch provides interdisciplinary and comprehensive, full-text coverage of important ethnic, minority, and native press publications, spanning over 40 years with nearly 1.9 million articles. With titles dating from 1990, Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to over 315 newspapers, magazines, and journals with viewpoints and perspectives that are unique from that which is presented in the mainstream press. The retrospective companion database included in Ethnic NewsWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, provides the historical background to the content in Ethnic NewsWatch, with over 300,000 articles dating from 1959-1989.

Ethnic groups represented include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; Multi-Ethnic; Native People. Ethnic NewsWatch also contains diverse, bilingual content featuring dozens of major Spanish language publications, including El Neuvo Herald and El Andar.

Find Ethnic NewsWatch in Brandeis Scholar or follow the links above. For more information about these databases, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.


Subscribe now to learn about new print and electronic books in your subject area!

http://louis.brandeis.edu/newbooks

LTS now offers RSS feeds of new print and electronic books in the Brandeis University libraries. You can pick one or more subject areas and receive regular listings of new titles added to the LOUIS catalog.

The new title RSS feeds can either be read in the RSS reader or web browser of your choice, or they can be sent to a particular folder in Bmail.

These subject lists of new titles can also be viewed on LOUIS at any time; just click on the "New Books" tab. The lists are updated daily. Titles to be included are new to the Brandeis library and published within the past two years. They remain on the list for 45 days.

A full alphabetical list of new print and electronic titles is available as well and replaces the previous New Books search.


Online Reference Collections Provide Quick Overviews!

Brandeis students, faculty, and staff now have access to five authoritative electronic reference collections, including hundreds of dictionaries, handbooks, specialized encyclopedias, and other reference works. These reference works are from trusted sources and are often critically acclaimed. These collections include:


Verify facts, get definitions, find concise background information on such topics as Iran-Contra, the Berlin Wall, John Steinbeck or the New Deal, to name just a few of the millions of topics available.

Search these collections (as well as some others) simultaneously using Brandeis Scholar's "Biography & Reference" Quick Set or select them individually and choose the "Advanced Search" option for more focused searching. For more information about these reference collections, please contact Ralph Szymczak, Reference Librarian, szymczak@brandeis.edu, x64673, or ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.


New Special Collections research guide available

The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections department, located on level 2 of Goldfarb, houses the gems of the Brandeis library. A new research guide to Special Collections introduces users to the rare book and original manuscript holdings and answers many questions students, faculty, and other researchers might have about finding and using the material. The research guide includes a list of suggested collections divided by subject, making it easy to see which materials might have relevance to various fields of study or teaching.

Special Collections consists of both rare books and original manuscripts. The rare book collection includes incunabula; books published in the 16th - 18th centuries on such subjects as history, English and American literature, philosophy, and Judaica; first and limited editions; and fine press publications. Book collections of note include the Baldwin Shakespeare collection and the McKew-Parr Collection on Magellan and the Age of Discovery. Special Collections also holds literary manuscripts of European and American authors such as John Cheever and Joseph Heller, as well as music collections and photographic collections. In addition, it includes collections of materials on the Spanish Civil War, left- and right-wing movements in the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, twentieth-century anti-alien and anti-radical movements in the United States, and Zionism. The department also includes the papers of prominent political figures such as Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Disraeli, and Daniel Webster.

Check out the Special Collections research guide here:

http://brandeis.libguides.com/specialcollections

For more information about the Special Collections department, please contact ascdepartment@brandeis.edu, x64686.


LTS is pleased to offer access to JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments. JoVE publishes peer-reviewed video demonstrations of biological experiments filmed in research laboratories. This revolutionary resource allows students and researchers to watch experts perform techniques before attempting experiments themselves. JoVE also features works from several Brandeis scientists!

Find the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) in LOUIS or eJournals A-Z or directly at:

http://resources.library.brandeis.edu/login?url=http://www.jove.com/

For further help or questions about JoVE or other science resources, please contact Katherine Button, button@brandeis.edu, x64729.


PressDisplay is a database featuring a variety of online newspapers from around the world. Newspapers can be viewed in their "true" page layout including photographs, advertisements and other images, or in a text-based view. Several newspapers include an "interactive radio" option to hear the stories being read aloud.

PressDisplay focuses on current news - it contains newspapers printed in the last 90 days. For other local, national, historical and world news resources, visit our News Resources Research Guide at brandeis.libguides.com/news.

Please note that online access to PressDisplay is available for 3 simultaneous users only. Please click SIGN OUT when you are finished using the database and close the browser.

Find PressDisplay in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For further help or questions about PressDisplay, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.




American History in Video provides a rich source of over 2,000 hours of online video for the study of American history. It includes commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries covering American history from 1492 to the present. This database allows users to view entire programs such as Biography and shows from the History Channel.

In addition to the vast collection of video, American History in Video features searchable transcripts of programs. Search or browse video by historical era and event, year, people, place, and subject. Users are able to drill down to a precise moment in a program. Videos can be shared via embeddable links and user-created playlists and clips.

Find American History in Video in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about American History in Video, please contact Judith Pinnolis, pinnolis@brandeis.edu, x64705, or ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.


SciFinder, the key database for chemistry and related disciplines, is now web accessible any time, anywhere. To register for web access, use the link and instructions at

http://brandeis.libguides.com/content.php?pid=16587&sid=213777

Please note that online access to SciFinder is limited to 4 simultaneous users. Please SIGN OUT from the database when you are finished.

Use SciFinder to explore:

  • Chemical structures, research topics, and authors
  • More than 18 million single- and multi-step reactions
  • More than 2 billion predicted property values and more than 3 million experimental properties
  • More than 23.8 million predicted proton Nuclear Magetic Resonance (NMR) spectra
  • The CAS REGISTRY database - the original source and final authority for CAS Registry Numbers
  • Sequences combined from CAS and GenBank database
  • Patents

Tutorials and search tips are available at http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/index.html.

Find SciFinder in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For further help or questions about SciFinder, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.


17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is a full-text, fully searchable digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers, news-books, pamphlets, ephemera, and other early forms newspapers from the United Kingdom. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney, this unique collection represents the largest and most comprehensive archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. The newly digitized Burney collection makes these items more easily accessible.

Find the Burney Collection in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this database, please contact Anne Woodrum, woodrum@brandeis.edu, x64622, or ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.


American Film Scripts Online is a large repository of American movie screenplays from the silent era to the present day. It contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers and includes detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. The database is comprehensively indexed, and is easily searchable and browseable by fields such as title, author, year, character, actor, or keywords describing the setting or theme of the film. This database is a great place to go for close study of a particular film, or to look for specific examples within a broader research topic.

Find American Film Scripts Online in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this database, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.


The leading reference source for research on the visual arts, Grove Art Online (accessible through the Oxford Art Online gateway) includes over 45,000 signed articles on every aspect of the visual arts worldwide, from prehistory to the present day -- from Paleolithic cave and rock art to the work of Frida Kahlo and Damien Hirst.

Grove Art Online also includes

- 6,700 expert contributions by scholars from 120 countries
- Over 21,000 biographies and over 500,000 bibliographical citations
- Over 5,000 searchable and embedded art images and line drawings

This resource, which includes the full-text of The Dictionary of Art, is regularly updated with new and revised articles. Grove Art Online covers it all, from painting, sculpture and architecture to the decorative arts, including ceramics, textiles, jewelry, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more!

Find Grove Art Online in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this database, please contact Lisa Zeidenberg, Research & Instruction Librarian, lzeidenb@brandeis.edu, x64697, or ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.



China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 is a multidisciplinary database containing digital manuscripts of two centuries of monumental social and political upheaval in China. Images include over 400 color paintings, maps and drawings by English and Chinese artists, as well as photographs, sketches and ephemeral items, depicting Chinese people, places, customs and events, history or art relating to China and the West, from 1793 to 1980. There are also hundreds of scholarly essays, collections, and interactive and zoomable maps. Topics range from Chinese Maritime Customs, Amherst and Macartney embassies, Opium War, Boxer War, to the People's Republic of China.

Find China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this database, please contact Judith Pinnolis, Research & Instruction Librarian, pinnolis@brandeis.edu, x64705, or ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.



The new EBSCOhost Mobile is tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality, right in the palm of your hand. Now you can access essential research databases such as Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, PsycINFO, ATLA Religion Database, MLA International Bibliography, and more, wherever you go!

EBSCOhost Mobile has the following features available:

  • Basic searching
  • HTML and PDF full text
  • Image Quick View
  • E-mailing articles
  • Multi-database searching


For questions or help with EBSCOhost Mobile, please contact e-resources@brandeis.edu.



L'Année Philologique is the most comprehensive index to research on all aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.

  • Online coverage from 1959 to a couple of years ago. 
  • Coverage extends through the end of the ancient world, until the start of the Middle Ages.
  • Includes citation and brief description.
  • Indexes books, journals, conference proceedings, dissertations and book reviews.
  • Searches include author (modern and ancient), subject, periodical title.
  • Indexes research published in all languages.
  • Subjects include linguistics, history, literature, religion, philosophy, archaeology, art, music, law, mythology, science.

Find L'Année Philologique in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about research in the Classics, see the Classics Subject Guide or contact Jim Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, rosenbloom@brandeis.edu, x64688.



In celebration of Women's History Month, check out the following collections of letters, diaries and oral histories. These primary document collections provide unique and personal views of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950, and provide personal accounts of women's daily lives in that period.

Find these collections in Brandeis Scholar or follow the links above. For more information about these resources, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu



Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 is a collection of documents and archives, including full-text documents, organized around the history of women in social movements in the United States. It includes current scholarship and primary documents not available elsewhere.

Find Women and Social Movements in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this resource, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu



Europa World Plus is the online version of The Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. The database covers historical, political, and economic information from more than 250 countries and territories, as well as profiles of International Organizations.

The Comparative Statistics feature of the database allows comparison of international statistical information such as area and population, health and welfare, industry, finance, external trade, and education. Data on countries can be downloaded as CSV and tab-delimited values suitable for importing into spreadsheets. Statistics are updated twice a year; political information changes more frequently.

Find Europa World Plus in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about Europa World Plus, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.



LTS is pleased to announce a new database of particular interest to musicians, music lovers and music scholars at Brandeis:

DRAM

A searchable scholarly collection of streaming audio recordings from 15 independent labels and sound archives, including liner notes and essays, DRAM contains nearly 2,300 diverse albums, ranging from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond.

You'll find performances featuring our own talented Brandeis faculty in DRAM.

Find DRAM in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about DRAM, or for help using this database, please contact Lisa Zeidenberg, Arts & Culture Librarian, lzeidenb@brandeis.edu, x64697.



Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History

LTS is pleased to announce a new database, Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History, which brings together a collection of travel writing from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

This collection contains hundreds of accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. A wide variety of forms of travel writing are included, ranging from unique manuscripts, diaries and correspondence to drawings, guidebooks and photographs. The database also includes a slideshow with hundreds of items of visual material, including postcards, sketches and photographs.

Students and researchers will find sources covering a variety of topics including; architecture; art; the British Empire; climate; customs; exploration; family life; housing; industry; language; monuments; mountains; natural history; politics and diplomacy; race; religion; science; shopping; war.

Find Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this database, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.



Drawn from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eighteenth Century Journals I brings together 95 rare journals printed between 1693 and 1799. The collection combines well-known publications with more minor works, offering users a wide-ranging view of eighteenth century publishing culture.

Authors represented include Joseph Addison, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Richard Steele, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Chatterton. Topics covered include law and policing; British colonial possessions; the South Sea Bubble, religion, female dress and the American and French revolutions; politics, marriage, and morality. A particular strength is eighteenth century drama, with over 19 titles relating to the theater.

The collection offers students and scholars of the eighteenth century an opportunity to examine a variety of topical issues, and to compare a range of perspectives on the debates of the day.

Find Eighteenth Century Journals I in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this database, please contact Anne Woodrum, woodrum@brandeis.edu, x64622, or ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.



Global Insight offers economic and financial time series data from the IMF, DRI, OECD, US, stock indexes and more.

Learn more about Global Insight by watching our instructional video.

Find Global Insight in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this resource, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.



The University of Chicago Library's Chopin collection includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin, maintained in the Library's Special Collections Research Center. The collection includes first editions of individual works, non-first editions of individual works, and collective editions published before 1881.

With Chopin Early Editions, the University of Chicago Library has made this complete collection available online, free of charge. Users can search or browse scores by title, genre, subject, or publisher's identification number. The site is continuously updated as new scores are acquired.

Chopin Early Editions is an invaluable resource for scholars and performers alike!

Find Chopin Early Editions in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this resource, please contact Lisa Zeidenberg, Arts & Culture Librarian, lzeidenb@brandeis.edu, x64697.



Crystallographic data: Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is now the WebCSD. For the first time you have web access to this database of published crystallographic data.

You need Java Runtime Environment (JRE) v1.5 or later. Be sure to allow pop-ups for the *.ccdc.cam.ac.uk domain and enable cookies and Javascript. Both Jmol and OpenAstexViewer are imbedded in the interface.

Find WebCSD in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this resource, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.


LTS is pleased to announce that 2.5 million links have been added to full text items, and are now available from our access to 19th Century Masterfile to the collection of the HathiTrust. These are 19th century materials that are full text online, most of them books and articles.

Using the 19th Century Masterfile (which includes the Poole's Index) will prove even more fruitful than before with these direct links to these historic materials.

Find 19th Century Masterfile in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this resource, please contact Judy Pinnolis, Research and Instruction Librarian, pinnolis@brandeis.edu, x64705, or ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.



Extra, extra... Brandeis now has access to exclusive same day coverage of Dow Jones publications (including The Wall Street Journal and Barron's), plus access to 8,000 additional domestic and international publications. Factiva's newsstand feature lets you view today's top news stories from major national newspapers, all in one place. This is all yours to enjoy thanks to our new subscription to Factiva.

NOTE: Our access is restricted to 4 simultaneous users only. Please click Logout when you are done using this database.

Find Factiva in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information about this resource, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.



Craving more information? Try using WorldCat to power up your library searches.

WorldCat searches both the Brandeis library catalog and other library catalogs to help you find the books and materials you need faster. WorldCat can tell you if we have a book here at Brandeis, in the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), or elsewhere.

Heading into Boston? Get a BLC card at the InfoPoint desk to check out books in person, or use Interlibrary Loan to request materials outside of Brandeis without leaving campus.

For more information, please contact the InfoPoint at 781-736-4670.



PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access.

Find PQDT Open in Brandeis Scholar or follow the link above. For more information PQDT Open, please contact a Reference Librarian at ResearchHelp@rt.brandeis.edu.

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