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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:
For further help or questions about the MLA Bibliography and other resources in language and literature, please contact Anne Woodrum, Research and Instruction Librarian, woodrum@brandeis.edu, x64622.
ARTstor contains over 500,000 high-quality images in a number of disciplines for use in research and teaching.
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.
In order to use ebrary for the first time, you will be prompted and will need to download the ebrary reader from the external ebrary site onto your workstation.
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
Please direct questions to: ris@brandeis.edu or 6-INFO. For technical problems, 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.
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.
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:
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, Research and Instruction Librarian, szymczak@brandeis.edu.
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.
For more information about ArchiveGrid and other resources in Archives & Special Collections, please contact the Archives & Special Collections Department, ascdepartment@brandeis.edu, x64701.
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.
For further help or questions about the Chronicle of Higher Education and other resources in Education, please contact Sherry Keen, keen@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, BIOSIS Previews, MEDLINE, and Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
For more information about Web of Knowledge and other resources in the Sciences, please contact Lois Widmer, widmer@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.
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For further help or questions about PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, and other resources in Psychology, please contact Katherine Button, Research and Instruction 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.
For more information about American Memory and other resources in Special Collections, please contact the Archives & Special Collections Department, ascdepartment@brandeis.edu, x64701.
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:
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 Anne Woodrum, Research and Instruction Librarian, woodrum@brandeis.edu, x64622.
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.
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 Research and Instruction Librarian at ris@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 Library, lzeidenb@brandeis.edu, x64697.
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.
Together, the Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: History databases provide 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, 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 and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History in Brandeis Scholar or follow the links above. For more information about these databases, please contact Jim Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, rosenbloom@brandeis.edu, x64688.
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.
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, szymczak@brandeis.edu, x64673.
New LTS Research Guide on Swine Flu (Influenza A H1N1) Resources
Concerned about swine flu? Want to learn more about the H1N1 influenza virus? LTS has compiled a research guide on the topic, including links to freely available resources and reliable websites about swine flu. Get the latest information, reports and publications, tips on flu prevention, pandemic flu preparedness, press briefings, download CDC podcasts, check RSS feeds, and more.
Check out the new research guide at:
http://brandeis.libguides.com/swine_flu
For more information, contact Kathy Button, Research & Instruction Librarian, button@brandeis.edu, x64729.
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 Sarah Shoemaker, Special Collections Librarian, sshoemak@brandeis.edu, x64641.
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 Science Librarians Katherine Button, button@brandeis.edu, x64729 or Jen Ferguson, jasf@brandeis.edu, x64722.
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 6 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 Research and Instruction Librarian at ris@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 ris@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:
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 Jen Ferguson, jasf@brandeis.edu, x64722, or Lois Widmer, widmer@brandeis.edu, x64720.
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, Research and Instruction Librarian, woodrum@brandeis.edu, x64622, or ris@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 Mark Dellelo, Research & Instruction Film and Media Specialist, dellelo@brandeis.edu, x64584, or ris@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 countriesThis 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 ris@brandeis.edu.
