| The AU Library has expanded its database collections. ARTbibliographies Modern—provides access to full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibit reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. British Humanities Index— covers more than 320 humanities journals, weekly magazines, and newspapers published in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries. Communication Abstracts—is a comprehensive resource for locating information on communication related articles, reports, papers, and books. Covers other disciplines relevant to communication research. History Cooperative—provides full text for more than 20 scholarly history journals. Index Chemicus (IC)—provides data on new organic compounds from over 100 international journals. The database version offers over 2.6 million compounds with 3,500 more added each week. Entries consist of abstracts of articles and illustrations of chemical structures. Index Islamicus—contains citations and abstracts from over 3,000 journals, as well as books and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world. Publications are in mostly European languages. Index to Jewish Periodicals—Citations to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in over 190 journals devoted to Jewish affairs appear in this database. International Political Science Abstracts—Citations and abstracts from roughly 900 journals and yearbooks in political science, international relations, and public administration; covers publications from 1989 to the present. Journal Citation Reports—Presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic way to evaluate science and social science journals and their impact and influence. JCR Web has the latest five-year data on a journal. Media Review Digest—the most comprehensive resource for reviews of educational media along with supplemental coverage of entertainment resources. Indexes more than 100,000 mediagraphic items. Music Index Online—surveys 775 music periodicals from more than 40 countries in 22 languages. The index covers articles, books, and news about all aspects of music. Naxos Music Library—provides access to a large collection of audio streaming files in the genres of classical, jazz/blues, film, world, and folk music. The database includes the content from more than 10,200 CDs released by the Naxos label as well as other labels. More than 50 new CDs are added every month. Rural Development Abstracts—Citations and abstracts to journals, reports, conference papers, and books covering economic and social aspects of Third World rural development, including land reform, land and water resources, biotechnology, microfinance, and health and nutrition are included in this database with records that go back to 1990. TOXLINE—produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in toxicology. Provides access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts—Citations and abstracts to journals, reports, conference papers, and books on agricultural economics, environmental and natural resources, biotechnology, and rural sociology. Records go back to 1990. Kirsten Allen, Clement Ho, and Martin Shapiro contributed to this article. |
