Politico

LexisNexis has added to its resources Politico, providing news about political campaigns, Congress, lobbying, advocacy, and other topics related to American national politics. To search Politico, go to LexisNexis, choose Power Search, and select Politico from the dropdown menu of sources.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature

The Graduate Center has a trial through September 8 to Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family.  This database on the mores of the past includes 112 self-help and how-to books published between 1859 and 1980.  Titles focus on business, finance, and professional life; character and self-improvement; citizenship; education and student life; health, hygiene, and personal appearance; home management; entertaining and leisure activities; child-rearing; love, sex, and marriage; social etiquette; social organizations; and travel and foreign customs.

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.

Images of the American Civil War

The Graduate Center has a trial through June 13 to Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera, providing 1,400 images searchable by place, date, battle/campaign/event, setting, and photographer.

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.

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.

Oxford Reference Online Additions

To its collection of more than 100 full-text reference works, Oxford Reference Online has added Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, Oxford Companion to Black British History, Dictionary of Environment and Conservation, Dictionary of Law Enforcement, Oxford Companion to Irish History, Oxford Companion to Scottish History, and Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia.