New Database

Name:
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas)

Description:
PRISMA provides and index and full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Articles in PRISMA examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies, from research on indigenous cultures past and present to current economic indicators, politics and society, and Hispanic theatre. Coverage of subject areas is comprehensive and includes Anthropology, Business and Economics, History, Literature, Political Science and Sociology. For a complete list of titles currently included, please go to the Title List.

New Database

Name:
Theatre in Video

Description:
Theatre in Video contains recordings of more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries related to theatre. Access is online using streaming video. The selections represent classic plays by hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. You can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging.

Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, Awake and Sing, Dom Juan, Bérénice, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Playboy of the Western World, Krapp's Last Tape, and the complete works of Shakespeare as produced by the BBC and other theatrical companies. Notable actors include Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and more.

New Database

Name:
Music Online

Description:
Music Online is a rich, comprehensive multimedia resource for the study of classical, jazz, world, and American music. Easily cross-search audio recordings, video content, full-text reference materials, musical scores, liner notes, biographies, and images through a single interface. Simultaneously listen to classical selections and view the music score. Additional search fields specific to the content, are available if you limit your searching and browsing to a particular resource. For example, if you go to the American Song collection, you can view a list of Historical Events and find songs that relate to those events. Trexler Library's subscription includes access to the following:

Music Collections

American Song
Classical Music Library
Contemporary World Music
Jazz Music Library
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries (coming Fall 2009)

Reference Sources

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
African American Music Reference
Classical Music Reference Library
Classical Scores Library

New Database

Name:
Social & Cultural History Online

Description:
Excellent place to find primary source material dating from 1550s to present day. Helps you locate thousands of freely available private writings and personal narratives of people from diverse ethnic and social groups. In addition to linking you to freely available full text, as well as audio and video files, the database includes full text for the following:

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Black Thought and Culture
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society.

New Database

Name:
Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Description:
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

New Database

Name:
PsycArticles

Description:
The database contains more than 140,000 articles from over 60 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. PsycArticles includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. PsycARTICLES is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®.