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Fri 30 Mar 2012

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought

“From St. Augustine and early Ethiopian philosophers to the anti colonialist movements of Pan Africanism and Negritude, The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition on the continent and throughout the diaspora. All major trends in African philosophy, political theory, and religion will be covered, as well as significant historical figures and social movements.”

 

Fri 6 Jan 2012

Wilson Databases Moving to EBSCOhost

Posted by billie_peterson under African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Art, Business, Child and Family Studies, Church-State Studies, Classics, Communication Studies, Curriculum and Instruction, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, English Literature, Environmental Studies, Family and Consumer Sciences, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Forensic Science, Gerontology, History, Human Performance and Recreation, Interior Design, International Studies, Journalism, Linguistics, Literature, Medical Humanities, Medieval and Renaissnace Studies, Modern Foreign Languages, Multidisciplinary, Museum Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion and Theology, Search Interface Changes, Social Work, Sociology, Theater Arts
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Last year, EBSCO Publishing bought HW Wilson.  EBSCO is in the process of migrating all Wilson databases to the EBSCOhost platform.  The following Wilson databases acquired by the Baylor University Libraries have been moved to the EBSCOhost platform:

The remaining Wilson databases should be migrated to the EBSCOhost platform before the end of February 2012, and include the following resources acquired by the Baylor University Libraries:

  • Children’s Core Collection
  • Fiction Core Collection
  • Middle and Junior High Core Collection
  • Public Library Core Collection Nonfiction
  • Senior High Core Collection
 

Wed 9 Nov 2011

Web of Knowledge — Book Citation Index

Posted by billie_peterson under Accounting, Aerospace Studies, African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Art, Biochemistry, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Child and Family Studies, Church-State Studies, Classics, Communication Disorders, Communication Studies, Computer Science, Curriculum and Instruction, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Engineering, English Literature, Environmental Studies, Family and Consumer Sciences, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Finance, Forensic Science, Geology, Gerontology, History, Human Performance and Recreation, Information Systems, Insurance, Interior Design, International Studies, Journalism, Law, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Literature, Management, Marketing, Mathematics, Medical Humanities, Medicine, Medieval and Renaissnace Studies, Modern Foreign Languages, Multidisciplinary, Museum Studies, Music, Musical Scores, Neuroscience, Newspapers, Nursing, Nutrition, Philosophy, Physical Therapy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Real Estate, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, Statistics, Technology, Theater Arts, Trials Completed
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Web of Knowledge — Book Citation Index

The Book Citation Index has been added to our Web of Knowledge subscription for a trial period. To use this feature, click on the “Cited Reference Search” link and complete the search form. Just below the search form you will see “Citation Databases” with a “+” to the left. click on that plus to view the options that allow you to narrow your cited search to books or chapters in books.

Please provide us with feedback on this resource.

Trial expires: Thursday, December 15, 2011

 

Tue 4 Oct 2011

ProQuest Black Freedom I and II

Posted by billie_peterson under African Studies, History, Political Science, Trials Completed
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ProQuest Black Freedom I and II

ProQuest History Vault is created from primary source materials from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections. There will be three modules released in 2011:

  • The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century, Federal Government Records (released)
  • The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 (released)
  • The Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960–1975 (scheduled for release Fall 2011)

More information can be found at the Quick Start History Vault Guide provided by ProQuest.

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Trial expires: Friday, November 04, 2011

 

Wed 14 Sep 2011

Australasian Digital Theses

Posted by billie_peterson under African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Church-State Studies, Classics, Computer Science, Dissertations and Theses, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Engineering, English Literature, Environmental Studies, Finance, Geology, Gerontology, History, Human Performance and Recreation, Information Systems, Insurance, International Studies, Journalism, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Management, Marketing, Mathematics, Medieval and Renaissnace Studies, Modern Foreign Languages, Multidisciplinary, Museum Studies, Music, Neuroscience, Nursing, Nutrition, Open Resource, Philosophy, Physical Therapy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, Statistics, Theater Arts
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Australasian Digital Theses

This resource has been discontinued.  Trove will provide access to most theses and dissertations from this region.

 

Wed 14 Sep 2011

Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog — Dissertations

Posted by billie_peterson under African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Biochemistry, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Church-State Studies, Classics, Computer Science, Dissertations and Theses, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Engineering, English Literature, Environmental Studies, Finance, Geology, Gerontology, History, Human Performance and Recreation, Information Systems, Insurance, International Studies, Journalism, Library and Information Science, Literature, Management, Marketing, Mathematics, Medieval and Renaissnace Studies, Modern Foreign Languages, Multidisciplinary, Museum Studies, Music, Neuroscience, Nursing, Nutrition, Open Resource, Philosophy, Physical Therapy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, Theater Arts
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Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog — Dissertations

Searchable online index of foreign (non-U.S.) doctoral dissertations held by the Center for Research Libraries.

 

Wed 14 Sep 2011

Trove

Posted by billie_peterson under African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Biochemistry, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Church-State Studies, Classics, Computer Science, Dissertations and Theses, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Engineering, English Literature, Environmental Studies, Finance, Geology, Gerontology, History, Human Performance and Recreation, Information Systems, Insurance, International Studies, Journalism, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Literature, Management, Marketing, Mathematics, Medieval and Renaissnace Studies, Modern Foreign Languages, Multidisciplinary, Museum Studies, Music, Neuroscience, Nursing, Nutrition, Open Resource, Philosophy, Physical Therapy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, Theater Arts
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Trove

Trove is a new discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians. Trove provides integrated access to millions of items from a range of the National Library’s collaborative services and from elsewhere. Metadata (information about items) is pooled from Australian sources including: The Australian National Bibliographic Database – containing location information from thousands of Australian libraries, The Picture Australia program, The Australian Research Online program, The Music Australia program, The Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts, and The People Australia program, and some overseas sources.

 

Thu 9 Jun 2011

Changes in FirstSearch Databases

Posted by billie_peterson under African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Art, Biography, Business, Church-State Studies, Classics, Curriculum and Instruction, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, English Literature, Forensic Science, Gerontology, History, Human Performance and Recreation, International Studies, Journalism, Law, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Literature, Management, Medieval and Renaissnace Studies, Modern Foreign Languages, Multidisciplinary, Museum Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion and Theology, Reviews and Guides, Search Interface Changes, Social Work, Sociology, Technology, Theater Arts
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The following resources are no longer available from the OCLC FirstSearch service.  We have moved PAIS to ProQuest and the other 4 to EBSCOhost.

 

 

Thu 9 Jun 2011

Changes in Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Chadwyck Healey, and Proquest Search Interface

Posted by billie_peterson under Accounting, Aerospace Studies, African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Art, Biochemistry, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Child and Family Studies, Church-State Studies, Classics, Communication Disorders, Communication Studies, Companies, Computer Science, Curriculum and Instruction, Dissertations and Theses, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Engineering, English Literature, Environmental Studies, Family and Consumer Sciences, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Finance, Forensic Science, Geology, Gerontology, History, Human Performance and Recreation, Information Systems, Insurance, Interior Design, International Studies, Journalism, Law, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Literature, Management, Marketing, Mathematics, Medicine, Medieval and Renaissnace Studies, Modern Foreign Languages, Multidisciplinary, Museum Studies, Music, Neuroscience, Newspapers, Nursing, Nutrition, Philosophy, Physical Therapy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion and Theology, Search Interface Changes, Social Work, Sociology, Technology, Texas, Travel
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Over the years, ProQuest has acquired the companies, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) and Chadwyck Healey.  For the past year, ProQuest has been developing a new search interface which they want to apply to all of their databases as well as those acquired from CSA and Chadwyck Healey.  The migration to the new interface has been in place for several months, and the Baylor University Libraries have now switched to the new ProQuest interface for the following resources:

As ProQuest continues to migrate their family of resources into the new interface, we will make the appropriate changes.

 

Wed 18 May 2011

ACLS Humanities E-book

Posted by billie_peterson under African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Art, Church-State Studies, Classics, Communication Studies, Ebooks, English Literature, History, International Studies, Law, Literature, Multidisciplinary, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion and Theology, Sociology, Theater Arts, Trials Completed
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ACLS Humanities E-book

Provided by the American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a collaboration among 20 learned societies, over 100 publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited, multi-user access. More details are available in this brochure.

Please provide us with feedback on this resource.

Trial expires: Wednesday, June 15, 2011

 

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