The Tri-College Libraries would like to remind you of our subscription to Mideastwire.com, a great resource for current translated news from the Middle East.

Mideastwire started over four and half years ago as a service providing daily briefs translated into English from the Arabic and Persian media - these include all of the top newspapers and some satellite TV. Mideastwire does about 25 briefs each business day covering opinion, business, political and society/cultural pieces that appear in these various media outlets. Each brief also contains precisely translated quotes, statistics and context.

In addition Mideastwire has a searchable database of over 30,000 archived items on their website, making them ideally suited for researchers, journalists, policy makers, advocates etc.

For off campus access, send your university affiliated email address to info@mideastwire.com and they will activate your account.

And for access to more information resources for Middle Eastern Studies, see the library's Subject Portal page on the subject!

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Doing research over Fall Break but won't be near campus? Don't worry - No matter where you are, you can easily access your Library's extensive online resources!

Bryn Mawr: Go to the Library home page and click Off Campus Access under the menu at left. After logging in with your email account, you'll be brought to the Library's front page, from which you can navigate to the resources you need.

Haverford: Current Haverford faculty, students and staff may request an Off Campus VPN login account. With this account and the VPN client installed on your computer, you can access the Library's thousands of online journals and databases from anywhere in the world. Go to VPN at Haverford for more information about downloading the software and requesting an account.

Swarthmore: Click the Off Campus Access link on Tripod on the Library's web page, or just click here and enter your network username and password.

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The Tricollege Libraries now provide access to the full text of the Philadelphia Tribune, from 1912 to the present!  

Founded in 1884, the Tribune is the oldest continually published African-American newspaper in the U.S. Read more about the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Tribune in this Philadelphia Inquirer story.

The Philadelphia Tribune is available in full page images and article images from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (1912 - 2001) and in full text  from Ethnic Newswatch (1991 - present).

Click here to access the Tribune!

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 Econlit is back up.  Until Tripod and the subject portal are updated, Swarthmore users can access Econlit using this url:  http://csaweb105v.csa.com/ids70/advanced_search.php?SID=00mm6efmcd7gismgqpk1em5007

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At the reference desk today I was asked for background on modern day piracy.  This question helped me re-discover Columbia International Affairs Online [CIAO] one of my favorite too-often-overlooked resources.  Sponsored by Columbia University Press, CIAO has great content - authoritative, extensively researched and in-depth - on all kinds of topics.

If you're curious, try searching your topic du jour.  Advanced search lets you limit results to the previous year or two.  The site is kinda clunky, but the results are amazingly rich and varied.  Here's a search on North Korea's nuclear program, to give you an idea.  Note the range of ideological perspectives.

Watch out though, some of these files are huge pdfs, so may be slow to download and slow/wasteful to print. Please leave me a comment and tell me what you think.

 Mark

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Have you noticed ebrary's new interface? With QuickView you can now browse through a book without having to download their reader, and search result sets include a new relevance ranking. Many of the features you've come to love are still available in the reader, such as your bookshelf and notetaking, of course! Most importantly, you can now print 20 pages at a time up to 40 pages per session!

Curious about which ebrary titles are used most often at Swarthmore? Here are the top titles for 2008:

• Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
• Understanding the Industrial Revolution
• Representations and Characters of Groups
• Apocalypse Soon? Wagering on Warnings of Global Catastrophe
• Management of Peace Processes
• Studies in Islamic Legal Theory
• Recreating Africa : Kinship, Culture, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
• Between Sundays: Black Women's Everyday Struggles of Faith
• Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White

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Swarthmore College Libraries recently subscribed to 2 new databases, and added a new feature to one of our existing databases.

Paratext's Reference Universe is unlike any other library reference database available today, allowing patrons to search the article titles and complete back-of-the-book indexes to over 12,000 specialized encyclopedias, compendia, handbooks and reference works published after 1985. Reference Universe provides a customized view of our electronic and print reference holdings. Searchers instantly know which titles are held by Swarthmore, and can click right through to online articles in all major reference databases, as well as see the local records in Tripod.

China Academic Journals is the most comprehensive, full-text database of Chinese-language journals in the world. Each series contains journals in different subject areas.  Swarthmore purchased two collections: the Literature/History/Philosophy collection and the Economics/Politics/Law collection.

LexisNexis Statistical DataSets, part of the Statistical Universe product, aggregates over 100 public domain and licensed quantitative datasets and makes that data available from within a single interface. Users scan the contents of these datasets, select subjects and variables of interest, and view the data in side-by-side tables and charts. The product also provides accompanying metadata in the form of citation records to provide details on how the data were collected and obtained.

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Having problems with the FindIt! button?  Please let us know via the Report a Problem link!

We've heard reports of buggy FindIt! results recently, but we need more information in order to troubleshoot.  Anytime you don't get the full text when you expect to, or if you get an unusual result on the screen, please fill in our feedback form.

Added benefit: if you let us know what wasn't working, we will do our best to connect you with the resource you're seeking.  It's a win-win situation! 

Thanks for your help.

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New!  The Tri-College Libraries have all begun subscribing to the iPOLL database, from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research!

This database provides access to more than half a million public opinion poll questions (and answers!) from 1935 through the present time.  You can search iPOLL by keyword, topic, polling organization, or date.  Questions come from all the major polling organizations including Gallup, Harris, Pew, and the major news agencies.  All polls have U.S. national adult samples; neither state samples nor foreign samples are included.

Our subscription also grants us access to RoperExpress, a service that allows you to download the original poll dataset so that you can conduct your own statistical analysis of the responses.  These downloadable datasets are available for 75% of the polls in the Roper Center collection.

Give iPOLL a try and see what you think!  (And while you're at it, take a look at another database of public opinion: Polling the Nations, which includes foreign, state, and local-level samples.  Polling the Nations covers surveys from 1986 to the present.)

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New!  The Tri-College Libraries have all begun subscriptions to Oxford Islamic Studies Online!

This amazing resource allows you to search the full text of more than 3,000 encyclopedia articles from major Oxford works on Islamic studies, as well as primary source documents, maps, images, and timelines.  It's the most comprehensive resource available for the study of the history, people, politics, and cultures of the Islamic world.

Interested in the Qur'an?  Oxford Islamic Studies Online also contains two full-text interpretations (one in verse and one in prose).  It also provides first electronic version of Hanna Kassis' Concordance of the Qur'an.

 
Try Oxford Islamic Studies Online today!

Image: Portrait of the nineteenth-century Qajar ruler Fath Ali Shah, reproduced in Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan M. Bloom. "Art and Architecture." In The Oxford History of Islam. Ed. John L. Esposito. Oxford Islamic Studies Online.

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Great news for historians and genealogists!  The Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore College libraries have joined Haverford in subscribing to Ancestry.com, Library Edition.

Search U.S. Census records from 1790 through 1930, by name!  View immigration records, passenger lists, WW II draft registration cards, public records directories, photos and maps, and much more.  It's a real treasure.

For more ways to do "people research" please consult these library research guides:

• Biographies
• Genealogy
  

For help with searching, contact a reference librarian!

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The Tri-College Libraries are participating in a pilot program to offer online access to materials from our music collections. In addition to some classes and ensembles that are trying out this service, it is available to other users in the Tri-Co who want to give it a whirl.  The software, called Variations, allows users to listen to streaming audio files, as well as to create bookmarks, playlists, and listening drills.  Scanned scores will be a feature to come at a later date.

The Variations software can be downloaded here.  And a list of available recordings may be found in Tripod by searching for “Variations Digital Music Library.” 

Please contact librarians Michelle Oswell, Donna Fournier, or John Anderies if you have any difficulties getting set up or have any questions about the service.

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the most obvious improvement is linking in the bibliographies to records in Tripod.  read on...

1. What is Oxford Art Online?

The access-point for new and forthcoming Oxford art reference subscriptions and products, Oxford Art Online is a single gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search Grove and Oxford reference content in one location.
2. We already subscribe to Grove Art Online. What has changed?

Your subscription to Grove Art Online now includes additional Oxford art reference titles, including the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Grove Art Online also includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists.

3. How often is the content updated?

Each of the subscription products available through Oxford Art Online will have its own editorial update schedule. Grove Art Online is updated and revised quarterly with updates to life dates, bibliography, and at least one major new content release each year.

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As part of an ongoing efforts to improve their website to better meet the needs of students, researchers, and librarians, JSTOR is developing a new platform which will enhance navigation and ease of use, as well as provide more tools and capabilities for users.   The new system will also allow the organization to more easily add new features and a greater array of scholarly content.

We anticipate the new platform will replace the current JSTOR site today, April 4.  With new features such as:

• Search within results
• Run recent searches
• Improved image searching
• MyJSTOR allows saving citations over multiple sessions
• Thumbnails of pages
• Simplified printing and improved accessibility for PDFs
• More robust browsing
• Improved navigation

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The Trico libraries are testing out several online resources, and we need your opinion!  Please check out the list, try any that strike your interest, and submit your comments.  Your feedback is invaluable as we decide whether to subscribe to these resources.

The trial databases include:

• Philadelphia Architects and Buildings, a database of images and information
  
• The FIAF Index to Film Periodicals and info on film archives
• Oxford Islamic Studies Online, a rich and diverse resource
  
• Several sources for 17th, 18th, and 19th century newspapers from the UK
• Several sources for information on countries of the world
  

Access these resources at the Trial Databases page.  Thanks for your help!  And act fast: most trials end in early April.

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Interested in Islam or the Qur'an?  The Tri-College Libraries now subscribe to two great resources for your research pleasure.

The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (edited by BMC's President-Elect, Jane Dammen McAuliffe!) is an "encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies."

The Encyclopaedia of Islam is a comprehensive work with entries on the religion itself, the Muslim people, and the ethnography and geography of the countries in which the religion is practiced.  This online subscription provides access to the entire second edition, and to the currently-in-development third edition.

Act now, temporary trial access!  While you're at it, please check out Oxford Islamic Studies Online, to which we have access until April 11.  This is a comprehensive resource comprising a number of different reference works and information sources.  If you like it, please make a comment on the Trials page.  We need your input so that we can make an informed decision about subscribing.

Salaam alaikum!

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Want the scoop on the seediest scandals in history?  Need to find old advertisements or movie reviews?  Just want to see the front page from the day you were born?  You're in luck!

 
The Tri-College Libraries have subscriptions that provide you with full text of hundreds of historical newspapers and periodicals.  Check out America's Historical Newspapers, The Nation Digital Archive, or the New York Times from the 1800s through today!  This Subject Portal page is your gateway to the past.

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Check out MideastWire.com!  This resource provides English translations to news stories from 22 Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab media Diaspora, updated daily. 

See this review from the Guardian (UK) to learn more about this resource, and to compare it with other sources of news from this region of the world.

You can view the news stories on the website, search the archives (back to 2005), receive updates via your RSS reader, or sign up for daily email newsletters.  To sign up for the email newsletter, write to info@mideastwire.com from your BMC, HC, or SC email account.

MideastWire.com is brought to you by the Tri-College Libraries. 

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The Trico libraries are testing out several online resources, and we need your opinion!  Please check out the list, try any that strike your interest, and submit your comments.  Your feedback is invaluable as we decide whether to subscribe to these resources.

The trial databases include:

• A new interface for RILM, GeoRef, and the Bibliography of the History of Art
• Encyclopedia Judaica, a new online reference book
• Zentralblatt MATH, the most complete indexing resource for pure and applied math (going back to 1868!)
  
• Mideastwire.com, which provides English translations of the latest news articles from the 22 Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab diaspora
  

Access these resources at the Trial Databases page.  Thanks for your help!  And act fast: most trials end in early July.

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New!  The Tri-College Libraries have all begun subscriptions to America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922!

 
This amazing resource allows you to search the full text of more than 1000 historical newspaper titles with coverage from all fifty states.   

 
Want to find advertisements, birth notices, election returns, or prices from Kentucky during the Gilded Age?  You can!  Limit your search by region, year, presidential era, eras in American history, newspaper title, article type, or a combination of these.

 
You can zoom in on your resulting articles, navigate the whole page, and output your results to the printer or to a PDF. 

 
Try America's Historical Newspapers today! 

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Many Swarthmore students have told us they want more and better e-books.  We have obliged!  Swarthmore College Library has just purchased an experimental subscription to Ebrary, a leading e-book aggregator.  Please let us know how you like this resource by commenting here or in the comment book!

The Ebrary collection, with about 30,000 e-books, offers some unique features.  Some of them reequire you to create a user account:

• Highlight text in multiple colors.
• Type notes inside an e-book.
• Keep a Personal Bookshelf with links to your highlights, notes, and bookmarks.

Other useful features do not depend on a user account:

• InfoTools™ software lets you click on any word to get additional online information.  Define, locate, translate, search document, search Tripod, and more.
• Automatic citations every time you paste or print Ebrary content.
  
• Multiple search options.
• Stable links that integrate with Blackboard.
  

Each Ebrary e-book has a record in Tripod, so you will come across them in your regular Tripod searches.  If you are researching from your personal computer and would like to use an Ebrary e-book, you will need to perform a quick, one-time download of their Reader software (this software is already installed on all public area machines). Bryn Mawr and Haverford students, we invite you to visit one of our libraries if you would like to use an Ebrary e-book.

For more information on e-books at Swarthmore, including Ebrary, please see the e-books tip sheets.

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New!  The Tri-College Libraries now offer online access to International Financial Statistics, an invaluable source of time series financial data from the International Monetary Fund.

This resource provides data for more than 200 countries in the following areas: exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, production, prices, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts as well as commodity and trade statistics.

If you're into international economics, check it out!

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The Database of Recorded American Music may be unavailable Wednesday, Feb. 13, from 9 pm to midnight as NYU performs technical upgrades.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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New!  Bryn Mawr now has access to the National Palace Museum Online, a collection of thousands of images of "painting, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, bronze, Buddhist antiques, and rarities (stationery, tusks, woods, bones, lacquers, and silk tapestries, etc.)."

The National Palace Museum is located in Taipei, Taiwan.  Each image in this digital collection is accompanied by extensive cataloging information, including a physical description, biographical information about the artist or creator, and details of its cultural context.

This is an invaluable tool for studies of Chinese art and culture!  Try it today! 

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Have you ever asked yourself, "what's all the fuss about e-books?"  Now's your chance to find out!

The Tri-College libraries are testing out two e-book resources - ebrary and Ebook Library.

ebrary is an online library of 30,000 e-books from 220 of the top academic, scientific, and professional publishers.  The ebrary reader (a one-time download) is full of features.  You can search the full text of all the books, read the books online, highlight text and make notes.  Click on any word or phrase, then search for that text in Tripod, Google, JSTOR, and other places.

Follow these links to access ebrary:
Bryn Mawr trial of ebrary
Haverford trial of ebrary
Swarthmore trial of ebrary

Ebook Library is an online library of over 60,000 titles with content across all subject areas.  EBL offers online and offline access and you can perform a a full-text search across the catalogue or browse titles.  Access Ebook Library here and enter username TRICO and password PATRON.

Please them out and let us know what you think about the resources or e-books in general by commenting here or filling out this form.  Your comments are invaluable to our decision-making process!

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Are you writing a paper on immigration, or crime, or voter turnout, or consumer behavior, or educational attainment, or (fill in the blank) in the U.S.?  Do you need some numbers to back up your argument?

Try the Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online!  HSUS is a great new resource that provides more than 37,000 data series, all fully searchable, on a wide variety of topics.  You can print the tables in PDF, or download the data into Excel format.  HSUS also contains scholarly essays on many issues, in conjunction with the data tables.

Try the Historical Statistics of the United States today! 

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Haverford College Library now subscribes to two new genealogical resources: Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online. Ancestry provides access to census, vital, church, court, and immigration records from over 4,000 databases. Highlights include:

• U.S. Federal Census images and indexes (1790 to 1930)
• The Map Center (more than 1,000 historical maps)
• American Genealogical Biographical Index
• Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage
• Social Security Death Index
• WWI Draft Registration Cards
• Federal Slave Narratives

HeritageQuest features family and local histories as well as primary source documents such as tax lists, city directories, and probate records. Featured resources include:

• Periodical Source Index (genealogy and history periodicals since 1800)
• Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files
• Freedman’s Bank Records

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Search the full text and full-image articles of major newspapers from across the country: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Defender, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe, and The Hartford Courant.  Find news, editorials, obituaries, historical photos, advertisements and more!

To access this trial, enter ProQuest, then click Databases Selected at the top of the screen. Scroll down to select newspapers you'd like to search.

This trial database is available through December 7.  Please try it and let us know what you think by commenting here or filling out this form.  Your comments are invaluable to our decision-making process!

We have many other resources on trial now as well.  Find out more here! 

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We'd love to hear your comments about Ebook Library and your thoughts about ebooks more generally. 

To try out this resource, go to our Ebook Library Trial and login with the userid TRICO and password PATRON (case sensitive). You can read the ebooks online or download them to your personal computer.

 Let us know what you think!  Comment here or contact your librarian.

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Looking for articles, books, or newswire stories about Africa?  The Tri-college libraries have a great new resource for you!
 

Africa-Wide NiPAD provides an interface for searching more than thirty information sources relating to many areas of African studies.  It crosses many disciplines (history, music, economics, political science, natural resources, mass media, and more!) and covers all regions of the continent, including many sources that focus on South Africa.
 

To find out more about this database and its collections, please view the database guide.  To access Africa-Wide NiPAD, click here!

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Need to find book reviews from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals?  Try Book Review Index Plus, the newest new subscription brought to you by the libraries!

Book Review Index Plus includes more than five million reviews published between 1965 and the present.  You can search by book title, book author, source of review, and more.  You can limit your results so you only see reviews published in refereed journals.

Try Book Review Index Plus today!  And let us know what you think -- leave a comment! 

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Is the MMPI appropriate to use with children?  What about the TAT?  What is this alphabet soup??

 
Mental Measurements Yearbook is a classic reference tool that provides descriptive information and critical reviews of thousands of psychological and educational tests and measures.  The tri-college libraries now offer online access to this important resource. 

 
Use MMYO to find out test publishers, prices, appropriate audiences, reliability and validity information, data on scoring, and test reviews.  It's an invaluable tool for students in psychology and social work, and is much easier to use in this electronic format.

 
Click here to access Mental Measurements Yearbook Online.

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Want to find poems about roses, Paris, or death?  Do you remember the first line of a poem you read long ago, but can't figure out who wrote it?  We can help!

The libraries now offer online access to Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, an excellent reference tool for finding poems by first line, last line, subject, and author.  Granger's can tell you which printed anthology contains a given poem, and contains the full text of almost 200,000 poems!

Granger's also provides biographical information about poets, a glossary of poetry terms, and more.  Give it a try!

Click here to access Columbia Granger's World of Poetry. 

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The Trico libraries are testing out a new online resource, and we need your opinion!  The Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection offers quick reference information and comprehensive scholarly articles from the acclaimed titles in the Oxford Companions series. Covering a wide range of subjects, this resource includes specialized dictionaries of everything from art to science to quotations, as well as English and foreign-language dictionaries.  Find reliable and authoritative answers to your questions here!

If you’re on campus, you can access the trial here.  Please check out the resource and fill out a feedback form.  Your feedback is invaluable as we decide whether to subscribe to this resource. 

Thanks for your help!  And act fast: this trial ends on October 1st!

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Have you ever asked yourself, "what's all the fuss about e-books?"  Now's your chance to find out!

The Tri-College libraries are testing out ebrary, an online library of 30,000 e-books from 220 of the top academic, scientific, and professional publishers. 

The ebrary reader (a one-time download; install is quickest in IE) is full of features.  You can search the full text of all the books, read the books online, highlight text and make notes.  Click on any word or phrase, then search for that text in Tripod, Google, JSTOR, and other places. 

Follow these links to access ebrary: 

Bryn Mawr trial of ebrary 

Haverford trial of ebrary

Swarthmore trial of ebrary 

Let us know what you think! 

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Do you remember using the Reader's Guide for Periodical Literature to find journal or magazine articles? 

We've always had the old print index here at Canaday Library, where librarians have taught students to use it to find historical Newsweek articles, old movie reviews, and stories about Watergate, the Titanic, and other important events across time. 

The print volumes can be tedious to use, but they have been the only way to find articles from American popular periodicals across the twentieth century -- until now!

Reader's Guide Retrospective Online provides access to all of the citations in the print Reader's Guide, from 1890 through 1982.   Now you can search across multiple years with one click!  And you can use the green FindIt! (or MORE!) button to quickly determine if we have access to the full article text.

Try it today: go to Reader's Guide Retrospective, then make sure to click the check-box near the top of the screen to limit your search to this source.  Happy searching!

The Trico libraries are testing out several online resources, and we need your opinion!  Please check out the list, try any that strike your interest, and fill out a feedback form.  Your feedback is invaluable as we decide whether to subscribe to these resources.

The trial databases include:

• American Periodical Series Online (American magazines and journals published from 1741 through 1900 in PDF format, including Maclure's, Vanity Fair, and lots of popular women's magazines)
• ProQuest Digital Dissertations and Theses ("Dissertation Abstracts Online" plus the full page image and/or the first 24 pages (PDF) of all dissertations published or digitized since 1996)
• Periodicals Archive Online (full text and page image of scholarly journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, from 1802-1995)

Access these resources at the Trial Databases page.  Thanks for your help!  And act fast: these trials end in the middle of July!

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No matter where you are this summer, Swarthmore students, faculty and staff can easily access the library's extensive database resources.  Just login to EZ-Proxy using your Swatmail username and password before you search databases and we'll know you're a Swattie.  To get to EZ-Proxy, follow the Off-Campus Access link in Tripod or go to: https://proxy.swarthmore.edu/login   Once you're logged in, you can access any of our subscription databases such as Lexis-Nexis, Access World News, Proquest Research Library, and much more.  Questions or problems?  Contact the library at 610-328-8477 and ask to speak with a Reference Librarian, or email librarian@swarthmore.edu.

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The Modern Language Association's International Bibliography has announced the several exciting new changes to their database.

1. Work on retrospective indexing has been completed and the bibliography now contains records from 1926-1962.

2. MLA bibliography has partnered with JSTOR to include 75,000 records from JSTOR's language and literature collection.  This means that more articles in your search results will link to full text online!

3. Books indexed in the bibliography from 2003 forward will include searchable tables of contents.

More information on these and other advancements is available at MLA Bibliography.

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Now available at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore: the Naxos Music Library!

Naxos provides streaming access to more than 100,000 tracks in classical  jazz, world, and folk music.  Search this huge database by composer, artist, period, year of composition, instrument or genre, then get notes on the works and information on the composer or artist.

Try it today!  You can find additional resources for music research on the Tricollege Libraries Music Databases page.

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Looking for current economic, social, and business information about Asia and the Pacific?  The Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Libraries have recently subscribed to Asia-Studies Full-text Online!

Find thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries, from high-quality research organizations including the Asian Development Bank, the East-West Center, and Japan Focus.  Try it today!

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The Trico libraries are testing out several online resources, and we need your opinion!  Please check out the list, try any that strike your interest, and fill out a feedback form.  Your feedback is invaluable as we decide whether to subscribe to these resources.

The trial databases include:

• Granger's World of Poetry Online
  
• Several databases from Congressional Quarterly, including Supreme Court, voting and elections, and public policy information
• C19, a great index for nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents and newspapers.
• Mental Measurements Online Yearbook, great for finding detailed info on psychological and educational tests and measures.
  

Access these resources at the Trial Databases page.  Thanks for your help!  And act fast: most trials end in March.

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 Next time you log in to Ingenta's web site, you'll notice it has a new name and interface. The Ingenta's document delivery service is now called IngentaConnect, and has added RSS feeds and the ability to search against our subscribed titles. The Table of Contents alerting service is now called Ingenta Intouch.

IngentaConnect and Ingenta Intouch may be used by Swarthmore's faculty and staff. Login on their web page using your user name and password.

Please contact Meg Spencer, Science Librarian, if you have any questions about using the Ingenta services.

 The new web site looks like this:

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Bryn Mawr now subscribes to the online version of Index Islamicus!

Index Islamicus offers citations to literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere. It includes citations to journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and book reviews from 1906 to present. Read more...

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Current Research @ Bryn Mawr College provides citations, abstracts, and previews of dissertations and theses submitted by Bryn Mawr College and published in UMI's Dissertation abstracts database. Coverage is from the 1920s to the present. Bryn Mawr users may download the full text of BMC's dissertations and theses published after 1996. The site also provides access to the full "Current Research @" which is a search tool for abstracts and the first 24 pages of 2005 and 2006 dissertations from hundreds of institutions.

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Please join Haverford Library staff on Tuesday, February 21 at the noon hour in Stokes 4 for a demonstration of the digital image repository known as ARTstor.

The ARTstor database houses an impressive collection of digitized artwork, which you can either use directly in the classroom or post for your students to view in your Blackboard site, or display via some simple yet powerful image display tools.

This demonstration is part of Academic Computing Center's new Tech Tuesday brown bag lunch sessions. Beverages and dessert will be provided.  The ARTstor demonstration will be led by Theresa Donahue, Library Circulation Services Specialist/Reserves and James Gulick, Reference Librarian.

You may sign up for this and other Tech Tuesday sessions on the ACC website.

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The following new titles have been added to JSTOR. Please note: the "moving wall" is a waiting period between when the content is published and when it appears in JSTOR.

Artibus Asiae
Vol. 1 – Vol. 59, no. 1/2 (1925-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years

Artibus Asiae. Supplementum
Vols. 1 – 39 (1937-1993)
Moving Wall: 10 yearss

British Educational Research Journal
Vols. 4 – 27 (1978-2001)
Moving Wall: 3 years

The Bryologist
Vols. 1 – 104 (1898-2001))
Moving Wall: 3 years

European Journal of Education
Vols. 1 – 29 (1965-1994)
Moving Wall: 10 years

German Studies Review
Vols. 1 – 222 (1978-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years

Learning Disability Quarterly
Vols. 1 – 25 (1978-2002)
Moving Wall: 2 years

Leonardo Music Journal
Vols. 1 – 9 (1991-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years

Metropolitan Museum Journal
Vols. 1 – 35 (1968-2000)
Moving Wall: 4 years

Peabody Journal of Education
Vols. 1 - 72 (1923-1997)
Moving Wall: 7 years

Connect to JSTOR

The libraries now subscribe to ECCO, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, one of the most ambitious digitization projects undertaken to date. This resource offers full-text access to books, broadsides, bibles, treatises, almanacs, pamphlets, and some truly bad plays – basically anything that was published in English between 1701 and 1800. Here you can find the complete works of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, but you can also find lost gems like:

This database captures the essence of the Enlightenment in Great Britain and gives students online access to a world of literature, history, and politics, much of which was previously only available through microfilm or expensive overseas research trips. To find ECCO, look under Databases in Tripod or your library's website.

Connect to Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Has the recent film "March of the Penguins" (they belong to the Order Sphenisciformes) made you more curious about the animals around us?

If so, try browsing in our new online version of Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia.

Some reviewers call Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia the best reference work on animals ever published. Others call it the legacy left to us by famed zoologist and animal lover, Bernhard Grzimek. The original 13-vol. set, published in Germany in the late 1960s, is internationally renowned for its scientific reporting, coverage and illustrations, and serves as a major point of reference for researchers and students studying the animal kingdom.

Try a keyword search for any animal in this updated online version.

Need to find info fast? Try xreferplus, a one-stop source for online reference books in a wide array of subject fields.

Dictionaries in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, German, and Italian! The Collins World Atlas Gazeteer! The Great American History Fact-Finder! Barron's New Food Lover's Companion! Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary! Quotation guides, religious texts, and even a crossword puzzle solver... these are some of the 177 tools available through xreferplus.

Give xreferplus a whirl. You'll be glad you did.

Looking for an article from a magazine or scholarly journal? Not sure where to start? Try ProQuest Research Library, the Tri-College Libraries' latest new online resource.

ProQuest Research Library offers citations and full-text articles from thousands of academic and popular journals on all subjects, from 1971 through today. This database is a replacement for Infotrac Onefile.

Special feature: you can save your favorite searches and have "alerting" emails send when new articles are published on your topic. Just click the yellow "Set up alert" button at the top of your search results screen. Try it today!

Looking for an article from a magazine or scholarly journal? Not sure where to start? Try ProQuest Research Library, the Tri-College Libraries' latest new online resource.

ProQuest Research Library offers citations and full-text articles from thousands of academic and popular journals on all subjects, from 1971 through today. This database is a replacement for Infotrac Onefile.

Special feature: you can save your favorite searches and have "alerting" emails send when new articles are published on your topic. Just click the yellow "Set up alert" button at the top of your search results screen. Try it today!

Several new journals have been added to JSTOR.

These titles are available to patrons on all three campuses:

Critical Inquiry
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 28, No. 2 (1974-2002)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Cultural Critique
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 49 (1985-2001)
Publisher: Universityy of Minnesota Press

These titles are available to patrons at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges.

Anthropology & Education Quarterly
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 28 (1970-1997)
Publisher: American Anthropological Association

Art Education
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 52 (1948-1999)
Publisher: Nationall Art Education Association

Duke Law Journal
New Content: Vol. 1 – Voll. 49, No. 3 (1951-1999)
Publisher: Duke University School of Law

Economic Policy
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 144 (1985-1999)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Centre for Economic Policy Research

Harvard Law Review
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 115, No. 2 (1887-2001)
Publisher: The Harvard Law Review Association

Two new journals join Project Muse:

Film History: An International Journal and Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.

Film History focuses on the historical development of the motion picture and the social, technological, and economic context in which this has occurred. Its areas of interest range from the technical and entrepreneurial innovations of the early and pre-cinema experiments, through all aspects of the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of commercial and non-commercial motion pictures.

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the oldest interdisciplinary, inter-religious feminist academic journal in religious studies, is a channel for the publication of feminist scholarship in religion and a forum for discussion and dialogue among women and men of differing feminist perspectives. The journal has two parents: the academy, in which it is situated, and the feminist movement, from which it draws its nourishment and vision.

Both journals are available to patrons on all three campuses, and have been entered into Tripod.

The Tri-College Libraries are running trials for alternatives to Infotrac, our main full-text multidisciplinary database. The database we choose should be appropriate for beginning and intermediate searchers in all subjects. Both content and interface (ease of use) are important considerations.

Please help us by trying out the candidate databases and sharing your opinions

This link contains passwords so it is only available to on campus users.

During fall semester, the library added 1,768 new books to the collection, and acquired 143 new DVD's. In addition, 2588 items have been placed on General Reserves.

The library also subscribed to several new databases, including Access World News, a searchable collection of more than 700 newspapers from all around the world. You may search by continent, country, or by a specific newspaper title. This database is provided by Newsbank, and also includes full-text access to the Philadelphia Inquirer (1981-current) and the Philadelphia Daily News (1978-current).

The University of Pittsburgh is performing network upgrades and maintenance on two upcoming weekends. As a result E-ZBorrow will not be available during these time periods. Both outage periods begin at 11:00pm on Saturday night and are scheduled to end at 7:00am on Sunday.

Network Outages for E-ZBorrow system are:

November 27 at 11:00 pm until November 28 at 7:00 am
December 18 at 11:00 pm until December 19 at 7:00 am

Please contact your library with any questions or concerns.

Access World News, a searchable collection of more than 700 newspapers from all around the world, is now available online to all Tri-College library patrons. You may search by continent, country, or by a specific newspaper title. Some coverage goes back to the 1980s, but the archives of most papers are more limited.

This database is provided by Newsbank, and also includes full-text access to the Philadelphia Inquirer (1981-current) and the Philadelphia Daily News (1978-current).

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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000, is now available online to all Tri-College library patrons.

A product of research instituted at the University of Oxford and funded by the British Academy and by Oxford University Press, this is the achievement of 10,000 contributors and advisers staff in Oxford. The Oxford DNB aims to provide full, accurate, concise, and readable articles on noteworthy people in all walks of life. No living person is included.

Access the Oxford DNB through Tripod.

Literature Online (LION) is a great resource for finding primary and secondary materials in English and American literature of all genres. This database includes "a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 131 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources."

We now have direct access through Tripod to the e-journals contained in LION, including such titles as Comparative Literature, Dickens Quarterly, Feminist Studies, and Renascence.

View the complete list of titles here. Enjoy!

The interface to all WebSPIRS databases is changing from version 4.3 to version 5.

This affects the following databases: ATLA Religion Database plus ATLAS Full Text, EconLit, ERIC Database, GeoRef, INSPEC, LLBA: Language and Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA Bibliography, PAIS, Philosopher's Index, PsycINFO, and Sociological Abstracts.

For help with the new interface, please contact your local reference librarian or contact LiveHelp.

When you see the button near a citation in an online database, be sure to click on it! You’ll call up a menu of links that will allow you to connect directly to the full text of an article (if available), a Tripod search, ILL request form, or Live Help.

BMC faculty, students, and staff are among the first group of scholars to enjoy access to the ARTstor library of digital images. As a "second phase" testing institution, Bryn Mawr is getting an early and free opportunity to start using this image database.

ARTstor's purpose is to create an indefinitely growing collection of digital images and accompanying scholarly information for use in art history and other humanistic fields of learning, including the related social sciences.

Bryn Mawr patrons can access ARTstor from any campus computer at http://test.artstor.org.

A new resource for history students is now available. Triptych: The TriCollege Digital Library makes available a sampling of primary sources from the TriCollege special collections libraries. Four collections have been published to date, with plans for several more in the works. Visit this site to search letters written by nineteenth century Haverford students, view photographs of Swarthmore from the turn of the twentieth century, or see images of important events from the women's suffrage movement.

Access the collections from any web browser at http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/

Swarthmore College Library patrons now have access to Anthropology Plus.

From the Fact Sheet: "Anthropology Plus unites two premier indexes created in two hemispheres. The result is extensive, worldwide coverage of core journals plus local and lesser-known journals. Together, Harvard University's highly respected Anthropological Literature database and the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) provide a uniquely broad and rich resource for education and research in anthropology and related fields. Citations include journal articles, reports, commentaries, and obituaries from over 2,500 journals and edited works."

Swarthmore College Library patrons now have access to Anthropology Plus.

From the Fact Sheet: "Anthropology Plus unites two premier indexes created in two hemispheres. The result is extensive, worldwide coverage of core journals plus local and lesser-known journals. Together, Harvard University's highly respected Anthropological Literature database and the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) provide a uniquely broad and rich resource for education and research in anthropology and related fields. Citations include journal articles, reports, commentaries, and obituaries from over 2,500 journals and edited works."

We want to alert you to a new Web site with links to the campus library that is now available to you to help meet your research needs: RedLightGreen

RedLightGreen searches millions of records describing library books to put the most widely held, most relevant items near the top of any search results list, which helps users to zero in on the most credible books and authors quickly. If a book appears in dozens of libraries' collections, it's a good bet that the book is considered an important source of information in its subject area: its selection by dozens of academic librarians is an implicit endorsement. Students can use their own words to get good results from the bibliographic data in RedLightGreen.

Once students have found the books they want, a few clicks will take them to that book in their own school's local catalog to check on its availability, allowing them move quickly from finding relevant books to getting and reading those books. With a few more clicks, RedLightGreen creates a properly-formatted bibliography according to MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian rules. The system also provides detailed bibliographic information on any book, including data about editions, contributors, subject classifications, and more.

Available to any Web user, RedLightGreen will be tested in partnership with Columbia University, New York University, Swarthmore College, and University of Minnesota during Fall 2003.

Swarthmore College Library patrons now have access to the International Who's Who online.

For assistance with this or any other library resources, please Ask a Librarian.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences is now available online!

This excellent and comprehensive reference work is a great place to start your research in sociology, psychology, economics, social work, political science, history, religion, ethnic studies, education, and a variety of other fields. The online version is fully indexed and searchable, and articles can be retrieved in a variety of formats including PDF.

To access the IESBS, follow THIS LINK.

If you're doing research on literature, you'll want to take a look at the Literature Resource Center Online.

This database comes to us from the Gale Group, and includes content from their Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism reference tools. It also includes hundreds of fulltext scholarly articles, timelines, explications of literary works, and links to websites.

Click here to connect to the Literature Resource Center.

Need information on a prominent person, contemporary or historical? Try the Biography Resource Center!

This database contains "biographical information on nearly 275,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas" (from database description). Besides short encyclopedic entries, you'll find links to newspaper and journal articles, websites, and more.

Click here to access this new resource.

Enhance your historical research! Reduce your dependence on microfilm!

The Tri-College Libraries now subscribe to the New York Times Archives Online. Access the databases here.

Some articles and images may not show up in the database due to copyright restrictions. For more assistance, please contact a librarian.

WorldCat is the OCLC Online Union Catalog. This extraordinary resource has over 36 million records of many types of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries around the world. Updated daily.

Connect to the database:
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=WorldCat;FSIP