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

Oxford Bibliographies. African Studies

Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on African culture, history, and society. Introductory essay provides a review of current research trends and issues. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable. Contains a “My OBO” function that allows users to create personalized bibliographies of individual citations from different bibliographies.

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.”

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:

• Art Index Retrospective
• Book Review Digest Retrospective
• Education Index Retrospective
• Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective
• Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
• Play Index
• Readers’ Guide Retrospective
• Short Story Index Retrospective

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

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.

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Trial expires: Thursday, December 15, 2011

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

Australasian Digital Theses

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

Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog — Dissertations

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

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.

The following resources are no longer available from the OCLC FirstSearch service.  We have moved PAIS to ProQuest and the other 4 to EBSCOhost.

• Book Review Digest
• Essay and General Literature Index
• Library Literature & Information Science (was LibraryLit)
• PAIS International Database
  
• Wilson Biographies Illustrated (was Biography Index)