New resources @ the Mardigian Library

November 22, 2010

E-book collections

Wright American Fiction
Wright American Fiction is a full-text e-book collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. It includes novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, etc. Authors represented include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as well as many lesser-known writers. Wright, a librarian, compiled his comprehensive bibliography after surveying the collections of 18 American libraries. This database allows browsing, by author and unique words, along with searching by full text, title, author, publisher, etc.

Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
This collection is a digital version of the 12 volumes of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson published by Houghton Mifflin in 1903-1904. It includes poems, speeches, lectures and longer works. Users can explore the collection by browsing or by using full-text or citation searching.

Sage Reference Online
This collection contains full-text electronic versions of more than 80 specialized encyclopedias and reference books in the social sciences, education, history, psychology, business and more. Users may search the entire collection or browse individual volumes. Titles include the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, the Encyclopedia of Career Development, the Sage Handbook of Health Care and many others.

Database updates

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management includes abstracts and citations from nearly 6,000 scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. This multidisciplinary database provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences including subjects such as aquatic pollution, microbiology, ecology, energy resources, environmental engineering and U.S. environmental impact statements. The database contains more than 3 million records and coverage dates back to 1967.

Design and Applied Arts Index
Design and Applied Arts Index provides abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 to the present. It indexes and summarizes more than 220,000 articles from more than 450 design and craft journals published worldwide. Both designers and the development of design are included for subjects such as ceramics, jewelry, wood, metals, graphic design, fashion, textiles, interior design and architecture, computer aided design, computer-generated graphics and animation, and landscape architecture. The database also includes information about thousands of craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms, etc.

Annual Reviews
This database provides annual reviews of primary research in fields relating to the biomedical, life, physical and social sciences. It is published by a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing systematic examinations of advances in a number of scholarly fields through periodic critical review. The information found here is invaluable for conducting literature reviews and for keeping up with current developments in a particular field of research.