New and Updated Online Resources

You can also find these new online resources on our Subject Guides or the UW Libraries A-Z Research Databases pages.
If you have any questions please contact us.

June 2008

New Resources


17th and 18th century Burney collection: funded by Allen grant. This collection includes 1,270 titles of newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney and representing the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/wash_main?db=BBCN UW Restricted

20th century Parliamentary papers: funded by Allen grant. The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1901-2004, includes 104,000 papers comprising 5.2 million pages of parliamentary publications. This collection complements the existing 19th century collection.
http://parlipapers.chadwyck.com UW Restricted

American Chemical Society archives: This former subscription is now owned by the Libraries with perpetual access, including ACS journals from 1879-1995. Access by journal title.

Century Journals Project: funded by Allen grant. The Century Journals Project is the single largest retrospective digital collection of 20th century Chinese academic journals. It is the backfiles of China Academic Journals, to which the Libraries has subscribed since 2003. Both databases are searchable simultaneously.
http://china.eastview.com/kns50/single_index.aspx UW Restricted

Gale's Literature Criticism online: funded by Allen grant. This database includes the backfile/archive of a number of the Gale criticism series, including: Contemporary literary criticism, 20th century literary criticism, 19th century literature criticism, Shakespearean criticism, Classical and medieval literature criticism, etc.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/wash_main?db=LCO UW Restricted

New Palgrave dictionary of economics: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by
Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.
http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/ UW Restricted

North American Indian drama: Coming in July. From Alexander Street Press, this first release of North American Indian Drama contains 93 plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Currently in trial at http://indr.alexanderstreet.com UW Restricted

Prisma: Coming in July. PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Offering key titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), a highly respected database produced by the Latin American Center of the University of California, Los Angeles, PRISMA features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content.
http://prisma.chadwyck.com/ UW Restricted

Changes to platforms, etc.

America history and life and Historical abstracts: These two databases have been discontinued by ABC-CLIO and are now exclusively distributed by Ebsco.
America history and life UW Restricted
Historical abstracts UW Restricted
Blackwell merging with Wiley: due to the merger of Blackwell and Wiley, the Blackwell Synergy platform is being discontinued. Migration of Blackwell content to the Wiley platform will take place the weekend of June 28-29 and content from both publishers will be unavailable. After migration, the former Blackwell url's will continue to access former Blackwell titles.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/wiley-blackwell/transition.html UW Restricted

Grove art online and Grove music online (moved to Oxford Online): Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online have both been re-configured, additional content added, and migrated to a new platform.
Grove art online NOW Oxford art online UW Restricted
Grove music online NOW Oxford music online UW Restricted

Investext (moved to Thomson Financial): Investext, formerly from Gale and on the InfoTrac platform, has moved to Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters) and its proprietary platform. Access not yet available on the new platform.


Cancelled Resources

Corbis images for education (No longer available for institutions)
Current Contents (Usage dropping, other resources more effective)
Global newsbank (Content available via larger CLP package: Access World News)
Newsbank newsfile (Content available via larger CLP package: Access World News)

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