New resources @ the Mardigian Library

E-book updates

ScienceDirect
Along with journal articles, ScienceDirect includes e-books published from 2008-2010. It includes coverage of engineering, economics, business and management, and selected social science titles. The e-books in this collection are titles published by Academic Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Syngress and Digital Press, Elsevier Science, Gulf Professional, Morgan Kaufmann, Newnes, North-Holland, and Pergamon.

Berg Fashion Library
The Berg Fashion Library includes information related to fashion and dress studies in the form of e-books, reference works, and images. It includes the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, a 10-volume set updated twice a year. Other resources contained in this collection are approximately 60 e-books, including A-Z of Fashion and the Dictionary of Fashion. Over 3,000 color images are also part of this database, which may be searched by place, time period, theme, textiles, and more.

Database updates

Criminal Justice Abstracts™
Comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, governmental, and non-governmental reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on virtually any topic in criminal justice, criminology, and related disciplines. These indexes and summaries cover crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing.

Educational Administration Abstracts
Educational Administration Abstracts covers areas related to educational administration, educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and similar topics. The index contains nearly 200,000 records from the most important sources within the discipline, such as Educational Administration Quarterly, Review of Higher Education, Journal of Educational Administration, etc.

Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide™
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide is the most comprehensive resource on wildlife information, including sources published from 1935 to the present. It includes the information formerly included in Wildlife Review Abstracts, a publication of the U.S. National Biological Service. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy, and much more. The database currently contains 1.6 million citations and approximately 18,000 more are added each year.

Urban Studies Abstracts
Urban Studies Abstracts covers essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other key areas with coverage back to 1973. It contains the most important sources within the discipline, including Urban Affairs Review, Urban Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, etc.

Free Trials

The Mardigian Library has free trial offers for the video collections/databases listed below. They will be available through May 14, 2011.

To examine any of these items, please go to the Library's website, click on the "Faculty Services" link, click on the "New -- Trial Databases" link at the bottom (or go directly to: http://library.umd.umich.edu/services/faculty/index.html), and sign in with your user name and UM-Dearborn password.

We encourage you to try these databases and give us feedback. A positive review does not guarantee that we will have funds to acquire the item; but it could help us determine whether we should pursue this item when funds are available. You may send your feedback to: [email protected]

Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II
The two volumes of Counseling and Therapy in Video provide one of the largest online collections of videos available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. This current release includes 143 videos totaling 116 hours.

Classical Scores Library
Classical Scores Library contains 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 25,000 scores.

Jazz Music Library
Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online - with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. This release includes 10,548 albums and 130,603 tracks, and is growing regularly.

Music Online
Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of the library's Alexander Street Press music databases. Discover Music Online's free classical music downloads and free world music downloads.

World History in Video
World History in Video is a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries allowing students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late 20th century.

American History in Video
Provides the largest and richest collection of videos available online for the study of American history. Allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 90,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Civil War Letters and Diaries
Civil War Letters and Diaries contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters, and memoirs.

Early Encounters in North America
Early Encounters in North America contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts of early encounters.

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries
The collection brings together 100,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, and is drawn entirely from the extensive holdings of the American Antiquarian Society.

North American Indian Thoughts and Culture
This fifth release of North American Indian Thought and Culture contains over 119,000 pages of text and images. Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
This collection includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
This collection includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online
The most comprehensive archive of social memory yet created, allowing students, scholars, and online researchers to experience the past through thousands of private writings and personal narratives.