New Databases and Ebooks
Added since January 2008:
American Song
 Alexander
Street Press (MDL/UL) Help
Guides available on the Web page.
"American Song is a history database that will
[eventually] contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music
from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American
Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included
in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition,
the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. [At present],
this release includes 763 albums, equaling 12,542 tracks.
Encyclopedia of
Associations, US - Gale Directory Library
Cengage
Gale (UL) Help available on Web page
"The only comprehensive source for detailed information on nonprofit American
membership organizations of national scope. Each entry features a range of
valuable data, typically including the organization’s complete name, address,
e-mail, Web site and phone; the primary official’s name and title; founding
date; purpose and activities; dues; national and international conferences; and
more."
Oxford Language
Dictionaries Online
Oxford
University Press (Palinet) Help available on Web page
OLDO offers "essential language resources never before available online: fully
searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study
materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of
languages."
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Oxford
University Press (Palinet) Help available on Web page
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works
from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single
cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers over 175
fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject
reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed
information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned
Oxford Companions Series.
Added since July 1, 2007:
Academic Onefile
Thomson Gale (UL)
Title Lists Help available
at site
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles
from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage
of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts,
theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative
and comprehensive. Updated daily.
African American Song
Alexander
Street Press (MDL/UL)
Help
Guides Blog
African American Song is the first online
resource to document the history of African American music in an online music
listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as
jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. The
African American experience is deeply connected to music. Whether using guitar,
piano, voice, harmonica, violin, or spoons, African Americans have always
expressed their joy, pain, and hopes through song.
Biography Resource Center
Thomson
Gale (MDL/UL) Help & Search Tips available on homepage
BioRC "is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 340,000
people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and
subject areas. It combines more than 435,000 biographies from over 1,000 volumes
of more than 135 respected Gale sources."
Biology Journals
ProQuest
(MDL/UL)
Title List
Help
The database provides access to a wide range of biology topics and includes over
285 titles, with more than 250 available in full text. With thousands of
articles available online, ProQuest Biology Journals includes some of the most
popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public
research environments.
Choice
Reviews Online
American
Library Association (20)
Top Tips
for Using Choice Reviews Online
"Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for
reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest
to those in higher education." Each year, Choice publishes over 7,000
reviews.
Classical Music Library
Alexander
Street Press (MDL/UL)
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Blog
Classical Music Library is a fully
searchable classical music resource—a ... database of ... classical recordings.
It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on
the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of
supplementary reference information. Users can browse, search, click, and then
listen to the music over the Internet through their headphones. If a score is
available in the database Classical Music Scores, below, you will be able to see
the score and hear the recording simultaneously.
Classical Music Scores
Alexander
Street Press (UL) Help
Blog
"Content in the first release includes 800 scores
(approx. 25,000 pages) of in-copyright material from Boosey and Hawkes and
selected material from the University Music Editions microfilm series. 49
composers' works are included in this release, including notable 20th-century
composers such as Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Ned
Rorem. This first release contains 16 full operas, 7 oratorios, over 50 string
quartets, 27 symphonies, 60 concerti, and more." Eventually this database
will grow to 400,000 pages of classical music scores.
iStream
League for Innovation in
the Community College (UL)
The Innovation Stream (iStream) provided by the League for Innovation in the
Community College is now available to our institution. This tool is an online
resource bank and learning community. As a subscriber, you can use iStream as a
professional development tool, listen to League Radio, or access publications
and presentations. Anyone at the College, including students, may use this
online resource. The only requirement is that you set up your own personal
account with a montgomerycollege.edu e-mail account.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
(see,
also, Tests in Print below) EBSCO (MDL/UL)
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University
of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000
contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice
test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information
essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas
as psychology, education, business, and leadership. MMY provides coverage from
Volume 9 to the present.
Mergent Online
Mergent (UL) Help &
QQuick User Guide Available on Web page.
This database provides Internet-based access to the most detailed, accurate and
comprehensive global company database available with access to information such
as U.S. Company Data, International Company Data, U.S. Company Archives,
International Company Archives, U.S. Annual Reports, International Annual
Reports, U.S. Earnings Estimates, Industry Reports, Competitor Reports and much,
much more. Also includes lExperian National Business Private Company
Database.
Nature
Not available in Central Search.
Nature Publishing
Group (UL)
Not a new subscription but the archive now currently goes back to
1950. In late 2007, the archive will go back to the very first issue
published,
November 4, 1869.
Sage Journals Online (Premier)
Sage (Palinet/UL)
Help
"SAGE publishes over 460 journals in
Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine."
We have, through a consortial deal, access to 452 of the 460 titles from 1999 to
the present.
Science Resource Center
Thomson
Gale (MDL/UL) Help available on homepage.
This database includes "thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies,
pictures and illustrations...and the latest scientific developments...covered in
articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web
sites."
Smithsonian Global Sound
Alexander
Street Press (MDL/UL)
Blog
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries® includes the published recordings...of
the...Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections
of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor,
Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African
continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM)
at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South
Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE),
sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.
Tests in Print
(see,
also, Mental Measurements Yearbook above) EBSCO (MDL/UL)
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of
Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all
known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English
language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test
publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population,
administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
WorldCat
OCLC (Palinet/UL)
Help available at Website
FirstSearch Training
WorldCat includes all materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries (including
Montgomery College Library) and contains over 62,000,000 records.
Added between July 1, 2006 and June 30,
2007:
Key to
Title Information
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UL stands for
an unlimited number
of users.
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Databases with a limited
number of users show the number of simultaneous users in parentheses
( ) after the title.
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MDL stands for
a Maryland Digital Library consortial
purchase.
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Publishers names are listed after the database or ebook name.
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Titles
lists, if available, are provided for each periodical database.
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Tutorials or other useful
quick guides are provided if available.
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