Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)

Covers three subject areas: History (8 sections), Literature (2), Mathematics & Science (2). Provides full-text, fully searchable content from a broad range of primary sources. Includes works in Western and non-Western languages, and are sourced from rare collections at libraries and other institutions from around the globe.

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Trial expires on Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

ProQuest International Datasets

Provides aggregated global macro-economic and demographic datasets from national governments, international organizations, and research firms on a national or sub-national (city, state, or province) level. Users can compare data from multiple sources and share their findings. ProQuest.

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Trial expires: Saturday, April 12, 2014

Statistical Abstracts of the World

Provides statistical data or citations to data from approximately 40 national governments’ statistical abstracts as well as compendia issued by international organizations and research firms. This resource works similarly to ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S. and includes data that is not easily found elsewhere. Full text options for accessible data include PDF files, GIF formatted tables, and Excel spreadsheets. ProQuest.

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Trial expires: Saturday, April 12, 2014

The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry

The papers, letters, and family plantation records of this mother-daughter pair from South Carolina span colonial-era America to the early Jacksonian era of the United States. This collection includes the surviving documents – letters, travel notebooks, and the recipe (receipt) books of these women, and legal and business documents relevant to their families’ plantations. Gathered together, these documents witness to nearly a century of domestic and political life, the role of women in the management of plantations and agriculture, travel, and to the changes that occurred in social life as America moved from a colony to a nation. Material may be browsed by topic (documents, travel journals, recipe books) or searched by keyword, person, place, or document type. Excellent introductions to the collection and its sections. UVA-Rotunda.

American Indian Histories and Cultures

Covering Native American cultures from prior to the colonization of the North American continent (Canada, Mexico, and the United States) to the Rights Movement of the 20th century, the materials in this collection cover 11 broad themes in culture, history, education, religion, government relations, treaties and wars, trade, and 20th century political activism, among others. Includes coverage of indigenous peoples from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Primary source documents, maps and atlases, visual images, art, photographs, linguistic and ethnographic accounts, 20th century American Indian newspapers, etc. Drawn from the Ayers Collection at the Newberry Library, a premier collection of Native and Indigenous documents, art, and history. May exclude some culturally sensitive materials regarding ceremonies and religious practices. Images may be selected to create slideshows. Searchable by keyword; browse by Tribes & Nations, documents, maps, visual resources, and chronology. Most materials are in English, but there are documents and maps in Spanish and French. Cross-searchable with The American West. Adam Matthews.

National Geographic Virtual Library

This collection brings together a complete archive of National Geographic magazine — every page of every issue — along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos. This Virtual Library includes:

• National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994
• National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1995-Current
• National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World
• National Geographic Kids

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Trial expires: Friday, October 25, 2013

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:

• ABI/INFORM Complete
• American Periodicals
• BioOne Abstracts & Indexes
• British Periodicals
• ComDisDome
• Current research@ Baylor University Library
• Ecology Abstracts — Not renewed, July 1, 2011
• ERIC
• Ethnic Newswatch
• International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
• International Index to the Performing Arts
• Latin American Newsstand
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
• Physical Education Index
• PILOTS
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• ProQuest Entrepreneurship
• ProQuest Historical Annual Reports
• Proquest Historical Newspapers the New York Times
• Social Services Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts
• Wall Street Journal

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

OmniFile Full Text Select

This resource is being considered as a replacement for the FirstSearch database, WilsonSelect. The content indexed in this resource represents the full-text only articles index in 11 Wilson databases (Applied Science & Technology; Art Index; Biological & Agricultural Index; Education Index; General Science Index; Humanities Index; Index to Legal Periodicals; Library Literature & Information Science Index; Readers’ Guide; Social Sciences Index, and Wilson Business Index). This resource is convenient for users with inquiries in areas that cross disciplines, such as ethnic studies, women’s studies, history, etc.

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Trial expires: Tuesday, May 31, 2011

EBSCOhost eBook Collection (Preview)

Last year, the NetLibrary e-book service was obtained by EBSCOhost. EBSCOhost is in the process of moving the NetLibrary books from the NetLibrary platform, into the EBSCOhost platform, and adding more functionality through that platform. This is preview access to this new NetLibrary interface.

Some notes about the use of this preview:

• Any changes to Baylor’s current netLibrary collection will not be reflected within the preview environment.
• To make use of the personalization options available, you have to create a new and unique account in the EBSCOhost eBook Collection during the preview period. Information stored, including username, password and eBook information, will be deleted once the preview ends (around June 15, 2011).
• Activity in this preview environment will not impact/affect our current live NetLibrary account, e.g., checkouts in the preview environment will not count as checkouts in the live NetLibrary environment.

Trial expires: Thursday, July 31, 2011

HathiTrust Digital Library

As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.

Baylor University joined the HathiTrust in fall 2010.  Consequently, those faculty, students, and staff with active Bear IDs will be able to authenticate their access in HathiTrust and download the full text of public domain materials and create permanent collections of resources of interest to them.  For detailed information on HathiTrust, see the HathiTrust LibGuide.