New and Notable Resources

With over 40,000 treaties and international agreements, the United Nations Treaty Collection Database provides online full text access to the UN's vast system of treaty literature. It includes but is not limited to:

1. All multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations and those formerly deposited with the League of Nations with their latest status, providing access back to 1920;
2. Recent multilateral treaties that have been deposited but not yet published;
3. Detailed treaty references and full texts in all authentic language(s) with translations; and
4. Photographs of treaty signature ceremonies.

-- Ralph Szymczak, Reference/Documents Librarian

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Web of Science

The Web of Science (http://isi01.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi/wos) is not new to the Brandeis University Libraries, but as a database, it ranks among the most notable. In 1999, indexing went back only 10 years to 1989, and at the time that seemed like a lot. In the 2001-2002 fiscal year the Brandeis Libraries purchased the back files to 1965, and in the following fiscal year, back files to 1945. The parent company, Thompson ISI, has added many new site features. It is now possible to search "pre-published" journal articles. Check out the "Analyze Results" feature to view rankings and histograms of the authors, journals, etc. of your search results. The company supports Open Access publishing by indexing journals such as the Public Library of Science Biology and BioMed Central titles. Take a look at "Hot Research", SCI-BYTES, or ISIHighlyCited. The Institute of Scientific Information has certainly come a long way since the colorful and legendary Dr. Eugene Garfield started the company in Philadelphia in 1958.

Nature Review journals

The Brandeis University Libraries added seven new titles to its repertoire of online journals: the entire suite of Nature Reviews for Cancer, Drug Discovery, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology , Molecular Cell Biology and Neuroscience. These highly cited, high-impact journals are all indexed in PubMed and Web of Science with links to the full text articles online.

--Katherine Button, Reference Librarian/Science Library

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Grove Art Online - Far More Than Just Art!

Grove Art Online has added some exciting new options that underscore the broad range of subjects and disciplines covered by this resource. The Explore Grove Art Online feature offers a unique way to create customized browse lists from over 45,000 articles in Grove Art Online. By selecting from one or more of the five major subject categories of Art and Art Forms, Geography, People, Styles and Cultures, and Time Periods, and then an array of subtopics, you can create very detailed lists of articles that meet your specific criteria.

Example: To see articles related to French 20th-century woman painters, you would make the following selections:

Art and art forms > Paintings and drawings
Geography > Europe > France
People > Women Artists, Architects and Craftsmen
Time Period > 1900-2000

Faculty in other departments beyond Fine Arts should keep in mind that Grove Art Online contains numerous detailed articles on broad topics in the humanities and social sciences related to art. Here are just a few:

Aesthetics
Jewish Art
Science and Art
Theater (as Theatre)
Women and Art History

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