Family & Consumer Sciences


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. Childhood Studies

Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on childhood studies, child and family studies, children’s rights, ethics, labor, and education. 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.

Standards and Engineering Digital Library

Contains industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. Covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. Includes a terminology dictionary. Use simple search or search by keyword, author/editor, ISBN, or DOI. Browse by topic, sub-topic, standards, committee, past symposia, videos, withdrawn standards, or work items.

Women’s Wear Daily Archive

This resource was on trial and has been acquired by the Baylor Libraries.

Women’s Wear Daily Archive

A comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution, full color images. Every page, article, advertisement and cover has been included, with searchable text and indexing. The Women’s Wear Daily Archive preserves one of the fashion industry’s most influential reads. Key moments in the history of the industry, as well as major designers, brands, retailers and advertisers are all covered in this publication of record. Note: Only between 10% and 25% of the content is available during this trial period.

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Trial expires: Saturday, November 23, 2013

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Provides information on chemical and physical properties of substances through interactive tables, static pdf tables and pdf texts organized by 19 sections (Basic Constants, Units, and Conversion Factors; Symbols, Terminology, and Nomenclature; Physical Constants of Organic Compounds; Properties of the Elements and Inorganic Compounds; Thermochemistry, Electrochemistry, and Solution Chemistry; Fluid Properties; Biochemistry; Analytical Chemistry; Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy; Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics; Nuclear and Particle Physics; Properties of Solids; Polymer Properties; Geophysics, Astronomy, and Acoustics; Practical Laboratory Data; Health and Safety Information; Mathematical Tables). Browse by the Table of Contents or search using keywords or by structure or by properties. Interactive tables can be sorted or filtered.

PsycCRITIQUES

Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycCRITIQUES is a database of full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books. PsycCRITIQUES includes approximately 40,000 reviews dating back to 1956.

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Trial expires: Sunday, June 30, 2013

PsycEXTRA

Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycEXTRA is a bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. PsycEXTRA complements PsycINFO and the other APA databases with extensive coverage of gray literature relating to psychology and the behavioral sciences; it contains around 200,000 records that are not indexed in any other APA database. Furthermore, content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection is expected to increase the number of records substantially.

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Trial expires: Sunday, June 30, 2013

TOXNET

Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

Vogue Archive

This resource was on trial and has been acquired by the Baylor Libraries.

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