JSTOR V Collection

As of June 30, CUNY’s JSTOR subscription includes the JSTOR V Collection, offering 18 additional journals to the more than 900 already available. This collection will total 120 titles by the end of 2009. The newly available titles are The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, Design Quarterly, Environmental History, Film History, Germanic Museum Review, The Hudson Review, Hypatia, Journal of Folklore Research, Journal of Modern Literature, Research in African Literatures, and Victorian Studies. As with all JSTOR titles, the most recent issues of ongoing journals are not available because of restrictions imposed by publishers. Check the Mina Rees Library’s list of available electronic journals to determine where the latest issues of these titles may be available.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

As of June 4, the Graduate Center subscribes to Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Graduate Center’s subscription to this resource includes the Iter Bibliography, Iter Italicum, Milton Bibliography, and the journals Early Theatre and Renaissance and Reformation. Bibliography of English Women Writers, 1500-1640 and Baptisteria Sacra will be available later in 2008.  Find it! does not work with these resources.  To see possible links to full text in Iter Bibliography, select the Full Details of a record and then the Check for full text box.

Digital Dissertations and EEBO

As of May 29, the Graduate Center’s full-text access in Dissertation Abstracts has expanded. In addition to the text of most Graduate Center dissertations since 1996, Graduate Center patrons now have access to dissertations from other institutions for the same period. Many pre-1997 dissertations from other institutions are also available.

In addition, the Graduate Center subscribes to Early English Books Online. EEBO includes the text of over 118,500 books published between 1473 and 1700. Users should consult the information about resizing text, printing multiple pages, and citing EEBO titles.

Theatre in Video

As of May 15, the Graduate Center subscribes to Theatre in Video, providing 279 videos of plays or drama documentaries. See Alan Arkin, Peggy Ashcroft, Marie-Christine Barrault, Claire Bloom, Zoe Caldwell, Richard Dreyfuss, John Gielgud, Lou Gossett, Jr., Philip Baker Hall, Julie Harris, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, James Earl Jones, Walter Matthau, Helen Mirren, Laurence Olivier, Michel Piccoli, Meryl Streep, John Thaw, Cicely Tyson, Jon Voight, Eli Wallach, and others in plays by Aeschylus, Beckett, Chekhov, Fugard, Gogol, Hansberry, Ibsen, Moliere, O’Neill, Pinter, Pirandello, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Strindberg, and others.

19th Century Masterfile

As of April 16, the Graduate Center subscribes to 19th Century Masterfile, offering citations to over eight million articles, books, and other documents published before 1925.  Also known as Poole’s Plus, after the nineteenth-century periodical index, the database includes links to text from JSTOR, when available.

Black Short Fiction and Folklore

Short stories and folktales from Africa and the African Diaspora. Stories range from oral traditions dating back hundreds of years to contemporary tales are featured in Black Short Fiction and Folkore.  The Graduate Center’s trial of this database ends June 1.

International Index to Music Periodicals and International Index to Performing Arts

The Graduate Center has trials through April 18 to International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text and to International Index to Performing Arts Full Text. These databases are password protected, and the links will take you to a page where the passwords can be found.  International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text provides indexing and abstracting for over 430 international music periodicals, with full text from123.  International Index to Performing Arts Full Text indexes more than 240 international periodicals in drama, theater, musical theater, opera, dance, performance art, film, and television. Full text is available for 95 of these journals.

Humanities International Complete

The Graduate Center subscribes to Humanities Interational Complete, which includes the full text of 814 journals and indexes over 2,000 periodicals, books, and reference sources.

New MLA Interface

MLA and Literature Resources from Gale, formerly Literature Resource Center, have a new search interface allowing the searching of the available full-text Gale literary resources, including reference works, journals, and magazines, and MLA at the same time.  Unfortunately, because the FindIt! links in MLA are not working, a problem Gale is attempting to resolve, whenever the text of a periodical is not available, you must consult Journals to see if the periodical is available electronically or in print.  Please send any questions or comments you have about this new interface to Michael Adams.

CAMBER

The Graduate Center has a trial of CAMBER, offering the full text of 74 scholarly books in Asian studies, economics, education, history, literature, sociology, and theater.