New Free EBSCO Database

EBSCO Publishing and the John Carter Brown Library Join Forces to Offer Free Historical Database

EBSCO and the John Carter Brown Library have collaborated to bring a new bibliographic database to libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 is a database based on the authoritative bibliography “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750.” European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 is freely available online at: www.europeanamericana.com.

This new database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

While the database is freely available online at www.europeanamericana.com, libraries may add European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 to their EBSCOhost® profiles by contacting technical support at support@ebsco.com. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 will be the fourth database EBSCO has made available for free, joining Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Teacher Reference Center™ and GreenFILE™.

From: http://www2.ebsco.com/en-us/NewsCenter/publications/ays/Pages/pdfs/ays-issue84.pdf

Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context

Select Gale Resource Centers are being upgraded to the revolutionary new In Context experience, including our current subscription to Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center has undergone a name change and is now Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. The url has not changed.

Mental Measurements Yearbook WITH Tests in Print

"To alleviate these conditions, EBSCO Publishing, in collaboration with the Buros Institute, has agreed to re-engineer these products into a single database. Furthermore, we will combine the Tests in Print citations with the Mental Measurements Yearbook full-text reviews, into a single, more comprehensive record. There are several advantages to this approach, including:

• Full access to all search options will be provided for these products
• All information for a given test will be available in one concise record
• Direct access to MMY full text will be available through a single TIP/MMY citation
• Users will no longer see two results for the same test

In addition to these search and display improvements, EBSCO will also release new backfile volumes of Mental Measurements Yearbook. Mental Measurements Yearbook currently includes Yearbooks 9 through the current Yearbook. The Buros Institute has recently digitized yearbooks 1-8. This important content will be added to EBSCOhost with this release."

Database cancellations

We decided in Collection Management not to renew Mergent Online (too much duplication with what is in LexisNexis Business, and it is very expensive) and Bridgeman Art Library (very low usage, and we have given the Art department two years to build usage).