New E-Resources

August 2006—The Libraries have added the following new online journal and database subscriptions since January 2006.  Most are new acquisitions, while several represent a change of format or significant enhancement to ongoing subscriptions.  All are available to Marquette users from any campus network location, as well as from off-campus.  If you have questions, please drop by the Information Desk or use other AskUs! services.

New Databases

Accounting Research Manager (ARM)The primary source for accounting standards and regulation, ARM offers users access to resources from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF), the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

Black Studies Center  This ProQuest electronic resource provides researchers with indexes, texts, and research materials, including the International Index to Black Periodicals (scholarly materials from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean), The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience (essays, articles, images, and film clips on interdisciplinary topics on the African experience throughout the Americas), The Black Literature Index (70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry, and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers from 1827-1940), and the full print run of The Chicago Defender (1910-1975).  This database is designed for students and researchers with interests in social welfare and justice, sociology, history, and political science.

Foundation Grants to Individuals  This electronic directory lists and describes over 6,000 foundations and public charities for the individual researcher and grantseeker. This resource limited to in-library use only.

Military & Government Collection  A component of EBSCO's databases, the Military and Government Collection offers current news and insight into the subjects of defense and world leadership from over 300 full text journals and periodicals, plus indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 additional titles.

SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Digital Library  For the engineering and science researcher, the SAE Digital Library indexes thousands of books, journal articles, and technical documents from around the world covering the latest advances and research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. Coverage includes fuels and lubricants, emissions, electronics, brakes, restraint systems, noise, engines, materials, lighting, and more.  Full text is limited to SAE Technical Papers.

Testing & Education Reference Center  Students considering graduate school or professional degree programs should look at this online version of the Peterson's Guides for higher education, including in-depth information on colleges and universities, graduate and professional programs, distance learning, corporate training, available scholarships and awards, preparatory entrance tests and much more.   Additionally, this resource offers practice tests and e-book versions of MCAT, GRE, LSAT, SAT, TOEFL, etc. study guides.

Digital Texts

Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)  With 150,000 texts and over 33 million pages of searchable text, ECCO offers everything published in Britain between 1701 and 1800, both English-language and foreign-language titles, plus thousands of important works from the Americas.  Containing the works of both major and minor writers, poets, and dramatists, ECCO encompasses history, geography, fine arts, social sciences, medicine, technology, language and literature, religion and philosophy, and law.

Everyday Life & Women in America c. 1800-1920 contains over 650 primary digital documents with a focus on conduct of life and domestic management literature.  The periodicals, broadsides, books, and pamphlets address 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.

Medieval Sources Online  Digital texts (pdf) in the Manchester (U.K.) Press' series, Manchester Medieval Sources, include topics in the European Middle Ages, such as the Normans, the Black Death, Catholic England and other theological subjects, women, Merovingian France, and the reign of Richard II.

Ut Per Litteras Apostolicus (Papal Letters)  This digital collection of letters offers a glimpse medieval life through the words of the 13^th and 14^th century Popes: John XXII, Benedict XII and Urban V.  This collection contains some 80 printed volumes and reproduces the pontifical letters either in the form of analyses, or in the form of partial or exhaustive transcriptions.

Vetus Latina  The Vetus Latina, or Old Latin, Bible collects all Latin Biblical texts in existence from the second century but which are not found in the Vulgate.  The basic sources are Biblical citations or allusions that are found within the writings of the Latin Fathers or Greek patristic authors who were translated at an early date into Latin.

Digital Journal Collections

Liebert Journals includes more than 50 authoritative journals in biomedical research/life sciences, biotechnology, clinical medicine/surgery, complementary/alternative/medicine, engineering/informatics, law, psychology, and public heath/policy.

Enhancements or Change of Interface

Dissertations and Theses has migrated to a new ProQuest platform allowing users to cross-search dissertations along with other ProQuest databases.

Index Thomisticus  Containing the complete works of St. Thomas Aquinas and responses from other noted theologians, this new Web-based version replaces CD-ROM, thus allowing access from outside of the library.

NetLibrary launched new site architecture; the most noticeable change is that users no longer need to check out digital books-- the "view" function allows users to access a copy of a title on a rolling 15-minute basis as long as they are active in reading the title.  Marquette now owns over 8,000 NetLibrary digital books thanks to a Wisconsin academic library consortium; all NetLibrary books are listed and linked in MARQCAT; choose the "Browse New Titles" option to see a list of NetLibrary books added in the previous month. See a new NetLibrary demo/tutorial.

Project MUSE has implemented RSS feeds for all (nearly 300) journals in MUSE.  The RSS feed is an alert tool that links to tables of contents and provides users with instant notification about news, updates, and additions to titles in the MUSE collection.&nbps; RSS joins MUSE's long-standing e-mail journal alert service.  Both offer a way for researchers to keep current with their favorite journals. More about RSS.

Web of Science has announced new tools for better refining searches and new links to full text of article from cross searches ("CrossSearch"); also, 2005 data is now available for Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for Science and Social Science.

Women Writers Online, a full-text collection of pre-Victorian women's writing in English, has a new search engine, new search features, and over a dozen new authors.

To review all library-licensed electronic databases, see the complete lists, both alphabetical and by 80 academic and general subjects.

For questions about these new additions to the collection, consult the librarian specialist for the discipline, or Jay Kirk (288-5213), Head of Collection Development.