New Databases - 2010

World Bank Data Catalog

World Bank Data Catalog provides web access to databases, pre-formatted tables and reports files from the World Bank. Databases include:

• World Development Indicators
• Global Development Finance
• African Development Indicators
• Millenium Development Indicators
• Education Statistics
• Gender Statistics
• Health Nutrition and Population Statistics
• Quarterly External Debt Statistics

Users can create custom tables by selecting country, topic variables and years. 
  
Categories of variables available include:

• Economic Policy and Debt
• Education
• Environment
• Financial Sector
• Health
• Infrastructure
• Labor and Social Protection
• Poverty
• Private Sector and Trade
• Public Sector

(09/07/10)

 Hoover Company Records 
Containing over 40,000 company records (including three years of financials, competitor lists and more), Hoover's continues to provide excellent up-to-date business data. (15/04/10)

America History and Life with Full Text
The definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to the present this database also provides full-text coverage of more than 196 journals and more than 92 books. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.  (Description from Ebsco website)  13/04/10

Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Historical Abstracts with Full Text is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 forward, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and much more. This authoritative database provides selective indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. With over 800,000 records and access to the full text of more than 316 journals and more than 138 books, Historical Abstracts is unmatched in its scope and breadth of historical and related social science literature. (Description from Ebsco website)
13/04/10

JSTOR - Arts & Science Collection VIII
The Arts & Sciences VIII Collection will broaden JSTOR's coverage of core humanities disciplines including history, language & literature, art & art history, and education. Included in this set will be a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. With a minimum of 140 titles by its completion in 2011, this collection will also include journals in philosophy, classical studies, and music.

Note: Please see Upcoming Journals for a list of titles that will be included in the Arts & Sciences VIII Collection in the future.   14/04/10

National Film Board
The National Film Board of Canada is a world renowned creator of Canadian film content. UFV now has an institutional license for classroom use of NFB streaming videos.  This growing collection has hundreds of English and French language animated films and full length documentaries in streaming video. (March 4/10)

Project MUSE is a collection of over 400 journals in the humanities and social sciences, published by leading universities and scholarly societies.  MUSE journals cover many fields of study including literature, history, politics and policy studies, economics, education, film, religion and women's studies.  (Jan. 5/10)




Gale’s Times Digital Archive, 1785 - 1985  allows you to search and view online the best known and most cited newspaper in the world, The Times (London), in its original published context. Hailed as the world’s “newspaper of record” since 1785, The Times (London) is regarded as the most authoritative medium for political, legal, business and social news. 

Its high resolution digital format allows you to see the complete page of every issue of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985, providing you a comprehensive and accurate view of the world from the detailed perspective of journalists who lived and reported the events of the last 200 years.
(from Times Digital Archive Navigation Guide, Gale)  (Jan. 5/10)

Database Changes

The Sage Full Text Collections (Criminology, Sociology, Psychology, and more) are no longer available on the CSA platform.  All content, including a deep backfile, is available on the Sage Journals Online platform.

The Institute of Physics (IOP) database was not renewed in 2010.


2009

GeoScienceWorld

GeoScienceWorld provides access to scientifically peer-reviewed full-text articles from 37 high impact geoscience publications. A search of GSW will also show results from the GeoRef database. (26/08/09)

Resources for students and teachers, grades 5 - 12. Includes magazine & newspaper articles, photos, maps, radio and tv transcripts, an encyclopedia, a dictionary and more. Teacher Resources include education journals. (6/3)

Kids Search (Grades K-5)

Resources for teachers and students in grades K-8. Includes magazine, newspaper, photos, maps, radio and tv transcripts, EBSCO animals, an encyclopedia, a dictionary and more. Teacher Resources include education journals. (6/3)

NoveList

NoveList is a reader's advisory database with over 150,000 fiction titles. It includes author read-alikes, book discussion guides, genre resources, booktalks, and more. Teen and adult literature. Useful for anyone who likes to read for pleasure. (6/3)

NoveList K-8

This is the children's version of the NoveList reader's advisory database, with over 60,000 children's literature titles. Designed for students, teachers and librarians. Author read-alikes, book discussion guides, genre resources, booktalks, and more. (6/3)

Medline with Full Text

Provides access to the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database and offers the full text for more than 1,370 of those journals indexed. Articles cover topics in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. [ Complete list of journal titles ] (4/20)

Blackwell Online Journals added to Wiley Interscience

We are pleased to announce to addition of over 750 peer-reviewed Blackwell Publishing journals to our Wiley-Interscience database. These journals cover a broad range of subject areas, with strengths in life and physical science, medicine, social and behavioural science, business and economics, nursing, health and dentistry, the humanities, and agriculture and animal sciences. (4/20)

Updated July 9/10 pw