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.

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.

New Project Muse Journals

The following journals have recently been added to Project Muse: American Literary Realism, Feminist Teacher, Goethe Yearbook, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Twentieth-Century China, Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture.

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.

Art/Health Trials

CUNY has trials through May 31 to two new Wilson databases. Art Museum Image Gallery includes over 155,000 images of paintings, sculpture, and photographs from international museum collections. Current Issues in Health includes articles on 80 health-related topics, including many of interest to those in biology, environmental science, and psychology.

Library Newsletter

Take a look at our spring 2008 issue of In Medias Res which has just been published.

New JSTOR Interface

JSTOR has a new look to its search interface. Select the Search button and then Basic to limit searches to specific disciplines. Select Advanced Search to limit searches by document type, date, and language, in addition to disciplines. Select Article Locator to find specific articles. The new MyJSTOR feature allows you to save searches. To export items to EndNote or RefWorks, you must create a MyJSTOR account. CUNY has recently acquired JSTOR’s Arts and Sciences V collection. Though it has only 18 additional journals at this point, it will include 120 titles by the end of 2009. This new version of JSTOR may require users to agree to terms and conditions of use before viewing PDF files. After agreeing to these terms, the PDF file will appear on the second page of the resulting screen.

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.

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.