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.

Grove Name Change

Grove Art and Grove Music are now Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online. In addition to Grove Art, Oxford Art Online includes The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. In addition to Grove Music, Oxford Music Online includes The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. Each of these resources may be searched separately or in combination.

Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development

The Graduate Center has a trial of this reference work, accessible through ScienceDirect. In ScienceDirect, click the Books tab, change the Source box to Subscribed books, and perform a search. Results from Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Child Development will also appear in general ScienceDirect searching.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

CUNY has a trial through April 4 to New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. The 2008 second edition offers 80% new content among the 1,850 articles by over 1,500 economists.

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.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

The Graduate Center subscribes to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, providing access to more than 2,000 translations from French, German, Italian, and Spanish dictionaries published by Oxford University Press.

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.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

CUNY has a trial through October 31 to  Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.  Drawn from Oxford University Press’s bilingual dictionaries, the database offers millions of words, phrases, and translations in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Changes at Google Scholar

Changes at Google Scholar: A Conversation With Anurag Acharya
by Barbara Quint
Posted On August 27, 2007

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In its own quiet way, Google Scholar has become a major force in scholarly communication. For many researchers, faculty, and students, it is the first search tool used, challenging the popularity and utility of veteran databases licensed—often at considerable cost—by academic and corporate libraries. Yet announcements about changes in the constantly evolving service seem to occur rarely and with little ballyhoo. For example, did you know that Google Scholar has launched its own digitization project, separate from the high-profile Google Book Search mass digitization? Or what about the new Key Author feature? Or the expansion into non-English languages and non-U.S./Western European content? A conversation with Anurag Acharya, the designer and missionary behind Google Scholar, helped us catch up on the latest developments. more…